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LOCAL GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO THE
IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE :
AN EVALUATION OF LOCAL CLIMATE
ADAPTATION PLANS
Ingrid Bakera Ann Petersonb, Greg Brown, Clive McAlpinea
The University of Queensland
Source : http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169204612001594
Presented by : Ariyaningsih
ID : 115874
Climate change responses stemmed from international and national initiatives to mitigate GHG emissions
under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol.
International and national programs to assist local jurisdictions to develop local climate action plans
emerged, and rapidly accelerated local climate change planning.
Adaptation was gaining momentum as an important and complementary response to climate change and
the coverage of climate impacts and adaptation notably increased in the national policies of developed
countries worldwide.
Preliminary research in developed countries indicates that implementing effective local adaptation plans
may be beyond the capacity of many local governments.
This study evaluated seven local climate adaptation plans in Southeast Queensland, Australia by
developing and applying a quantitative, multi-criteria analysis framework
INTRODUCTION
Background
INTRODUCTION
The Study Region
The Policy Context
SEQ is Australia's fastest growing region
The Region is a hotspot for climate
change risk and vulnerability, due to the
Region's ongoing coastal development
and population growth.
The Region has a complex and multi-layered governance framework.
The State's predominant town planning legislation, the Sustainable Planning
Act 2009 (SPA) requires the coordination and integration of planning verti
cally at local, regional, and state levels.
METHODS
Baseline
The evaluation framework
A census of local climate plans in the Region was completed by searching
local and Australian Government websites.
the outcome criteria
evaluation categories
enumeration system
Two categories were developed
to evaluate the content of the
local government climate plans
to determine how well local
governments were planning for
climate change impacts :
Overall Progress
Plan Quality
The seven local adaptation pla
ns were assessed against each
of the eight outcome criteria
using a coding system that ass
igned numeric values to the
evaluation categories
based on a critical analysis of
the current best practice
literature in adaptation planning
and climate science and
reflected the generalized
desired adaptation planning
outcomes for SEQ at the regio
nal and local scale.
METHODS
Outcome Criteria
Evaluation Categories
METHODS
System of Enumeration Interviews
Limitations
A set of semi-structured
Interviews was conducted with
local government.
The participants were asked to
view and comment on the plan
evaluation scores.
Some important limitations to these methods are worth noting.
1. while the evaluation framework effectively addressed the breadth of key climate impacts across the
main council planning areas, it could be improved for application elsewhere by expanding the depth
of the criteria selected for Evaluation.
2. the results from the interviews were drawn from a relatively small sample size.
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RESULTS
Overall Progress
Plan Quality
Discussion
Structural
Contextual
DISCUSSION
Procedural
the failure to
consider climate change
adaptation across all
sectors within the local
government
Future inquiry into
climate adaption barriers
should be skeptical of
the habitual preference
for local scale solutions,
which may be the
product of devolution
ideology rather than de
monstrated
effectiveness.
a significant disparity be
tween the methods and
the rigor used to develo
p plans across SEQ. Th
ere was a general failure
to undertake risk, vulner
ability, and exposure as
sessments across all pr
ojected impacts
Federally endorsed clim
ate adaptation planning
initiatives need to provid
e more prescriptive guid
elines to help ensure su
ccess.
Despite mainstream
agreement of the
magnitude of global
mean climate changes,
it is difficult to project h
ow these changes will
manifest at regional and
local scales.
Effective adaptive
policies will require
strategic allocation of
resources that
acknowledge local
context, and yet, such
policies will be
politically difficult to
implement.
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
Conclusion
Recommendation
Although the evaluated local governments in SEQ demonstrated a strong
awareness of climate impacts, the local adaptation plans evaluated for this
research do not suggest they will be effective in precipitating local government
action for climate change.
Local governments need on-going funding to enhance their information base
regarding local climate effects and to enable them to effectively plan for climate
impacts.
Specific standards or requirements for climate adaptation plans must be
negotiated and established at higher levels of government, in conjunction with
meaningful consultation with local governments.
Local governments need to genuinely engage in public participation programs
when developing climate adaptation plans
PERSONAL OPINION
The community of the region should be participant in the adaptation plan
Evaluation, so everyone can control and say if theres a new problem in their
region.
This research try to evaluate adaptation plan when the plan is on going
(on going evaluation), but its better to do evaluation in beginning before the
plan start (ex-ante evaluation) and also in the end of the plan (ex-post
evaluation)
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