- Title
- Governance of climate change adaption and disaster risk reduction integration: strategies, policies and plans in Australian Local Governments
- Creator
- Forino, Giuseppe; von Meding, Jason; Brewer, Graham J.
- Relation
- 2016 6th International Conference on Building Resilience. 2016 6th International Conference on Building Resilience: Building Resilience to Address the Unexpected (Auckland, New Zealand 7-9 September, 2016) p. 939-946
- Relation
- http://buildresilience2016.nz/?page_id=439
- Publisher
- Massey University and the University of Auckland
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- In Australia, governing the integration of Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) into Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is becoming a pressing field of action. This governance is shaped by normative elements such as strategies, policies, and plans (SPPs), which set goals for coping with climate change-related risks. This paper investigates CCA and DRR as integrated into SPPs by Local Governments of Newcastle, Singleton, and Lake Macquarie, NSW. A content analysis of documents publicly available on City Councils’ websites has been performed. The analysis found: i) differences between urban and rural Local Governments in terms of climate change-related risks consideration; ii) a convergence of common topics and milestones for some of the SPPs; iii) the necessity to target vulnerabilities and resilience for some specific subgroups of local communities; iv) land-use and development as common topics; and, v) a required focus on drought and on the inclusion of CCA into disaster response. The paper recommends exploring governance of CCA&DRR integration at the local level in order to advance the current state of the art.
- Subject
- Climate Change Adaptation; Disaster Risk Reduction; governance; Australia; Local Governments
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1344958
- Identifier
- uon:29537
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780473372682
- Language
- eng
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