Resilience
Resilience in the content of climate change concerns itself with strengthening the capacity of communities, industries and environments to absorb and respond to increasing climate risks. The National Climate and Adaptation Resilience Strategy identifies six key underlying principles to increase resilience: shared responsibility, factoring climate risks into decision making, an evidence based risk management approach, helping the vulnerable, collaboration and adaptive management (Australian Government 2015). Embedding climate impacts and risks into decision making processes, programs and projects is central to achieving long term positive change. Living with climate change will involve systematic and long term transformation.
This section covers the research and education across the University of Canberra contributing to the ongoing development and discovery of strategies and actions to strengthen the ongoing resilience of communities and environments to respond to climate change at the international, national sub national and local scale.
Tracy Ireland
Director, Centre of Creative & Cultural Research
Faculty of Arts and Design
Darren Sinclair
Director, Centre for Change Governance
Faculty of Business, Government and Law
Katharine McKinnon
Associate Professor, Community Learning and Development
Faculty of Education
National Hazard Exposure Modelling Framework
develop Australian Natural Hazards Exposure Information Framework (ANHEIF) that links strongly with the National Strategy for Disaster Resilience (COAG, 2011).
UC Institute/Centre/Faculty: HRI
Funding Agency: Geoscience Australia
Funding Amount: $613,351.32
Collaboration/Partner: Geosciences Australia and Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC
Project Lead: Rachel Davey
Project Team Members: Itismita Mohanty
Start date: August 1, 2014
End date: June 30, 2021
Community Based Disaster Risk Resilience for Sustainable Indigenous Development: A Comparative Study between Remote Indigenous Communities of Northern Australia and Pakistan
UC Institute/Centre/Faculty: FoH/CIRI
Funding Agency: CIRI
Funding Amount: $49,997.75
Collaboration/Partner: Yalu Marŋgithinyaraw, Charles Darwin University, Menzies School of Health Research, University of Peshawar (Pakistan)
Project Lead: Tahir Ali (PhD) & A/Prof Petra Buergelt
Project Team Members: A/Prof Elaine Ḻäwurrpa Maypilama, Yuŋgirrŋa Dorothy Bukulatjpi, Adjunct Prof Douglas Paton, Prof James Smith, Tahir Ali, Rosemary Gundjarranbuy, Prof Noor Jehan
Start date: 2020
End date: 2021
Digital modelling for conservation: Managing the Old Great North Road Cultural Landscape for climate-wise resilience
The aim of this project is to develop a digitally captured site and multilayered database of the OGNR for its enhanced understanding, promotion, participation, conservation and climate-wise resilience and adaptation. The project will engage a holistic data collection and analysis practice that includes aerial mapping, detailed and precise 3D laser scans, hydrological modelling and the complete capture of character-defining elements and bushfire damaged areas. The outcome of this work will deliver and represent the cornerstone information serving for its conservation, ensuring a posterity record in case of natural hazards, thunderstorm, flooding, bushfires and destructions and guide the decision-making process at all levels by NPWS, heritage authorities, specialists and the community, as well as to present historical knowledge and values of its resources.
UC Institute/Centre/Faculty: FAD
Funding Agency: Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment
Funding Amount: $296,384
Collaboration/Partner: NSW NPWS
Project Lead: Tracy Ireland
Project Team Members: Charles Lemckert, Saeed Banihashemi, Hamed Golizadeh
Start date: 2021
End date: 2023
The Sustainable Shine Dome
Consistent with the existing Heritage Management Plan this project will develop a comprehensive plan for the renewal and replacement of environmental systems to ensure progressive energy and emissions reductions as a pathway to a net-zero energy future. Consistent with place values as representing Academy of Science’s national urge to innovate, the plan will research and adopt world leading strategies and innovative approaches to ensure the project results in a plan that protects and sustainably manages the place’s national heritage values. The project includes a promotion plan to ensure public participation in and improve awareness of these values. In this way the project will ensure the scientific energy and experimentation of the Academy’s founding members continues to be recognized.
UC Institute/Centre/Faculty: HRI
Funding Agency: Victorian Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions
Funding Amount: $91,000.00
Collaboration/Partner: N/A
Project Lead: Jacki Schirmer
Project Team Members: Mel Mylek, Dominic Peel
Start date: October 2, 2020
End date: October 1, 2023
