Future Earth Australia report: Societal fairness must be addressed by climate action

Posted on

Image: A framework for just and transformative adaptation (Source: By the authors (FEA REPORT,after Shi & Moser 2021).

Transformative adaptation needs to respond to the magnitude of climate risks (yellow arrow) by addressing root drivers of vulnerability (gray arrow). Large-scale, systemic thinking is necessary to coordinate adaptation across scales, sectors, and hazards (orange arrow). Such societal mobilization requires both deep deliberation across silos (green arrow) and an assertion of normative values of justice and equity (red arrow) so that large-scale actions do not repeat racist, inequitable, and unsustainable outcomes. Transformative thinking at all three levels (material, relational, and mindset) is needed in all areas that shape societal well-being and across urban-rural landscapes. [Original graphic by the authors]

Australia must address social injustices and support communities experiencing multiple and intersecting vulnerabilities as we adapt to a changing climate, argues a new report from Future Earth Australia.

A National Strategy for Just Adaptation, to be launched tonight (6 September) at Parliament House, aims to broaden and reimagine the way adaptation policy, planning and action are framed in Australia.

It will be launched by the Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Senator the Hon Jenny McAllister.

The strategy, developed over two years by an Expert Working Group of 35 authors from 13 university, government and private partners, highlights how everyday social inequities, uneven capacities and unequal representation undermine how well people can adapt to climate change.

Bhiamie Williamson from the Australian National University, a Euahlayi man from north-west New South Wales and Co-chair of the Expert Working Group that developed the strategy, said a central component in this new approach was recognising and including the voices, experiences and ambitions of the many people who make up Australia today – especially Indigenous Peoples.

“Recent disasters, like the flooding crisis on the east coast, have shown how entrenched inequalities multiply the risks that communities face in times of crisis,” Mr Williamson said.

“Ignoring the diversity of our country’s residents, including their needs, aspirations and capabilities, weakens Australia’s collective ability to adapt.”

Dr Petra Lundgren, Director of Future Earth Australia, said the new strategy provides a counter-narrative to previously developed adaptation strategies.

“It moves from focusing on largely technical elements to encompassing social, political and behavioural strategies and systems change,” Dr Lundgren said.

The strategy forms the backbone of Future Earth Australia’s Reimagining Climate Change Adaptation initiative that began with a state-by-state consultation in October 2020, followed by the Reimagining Climate Adaptation Summit in April 2021.

It sets out the following five practical directions for achieving transformational change in Australia’s climate adaptation planning and practice:

  • Empowering Indigenous leadership
  • Embedding a just adaptation framework across governments and sectors
  • Including the voices and experiences of diverse stakeholders across areas of marginalisation into just adaptation processes
  • Supporting communities and community groups to drive transformation
  • Advancing research agendas that promote just adaptation

Professor Petra Tschakert from Curtin University, Co-chair of the Expert Working Group, said the strategy looks at adaptation as not merely an adjustment to climatic hazards and climate-related policies, but also as an urgent effort to address and overcome inequities that are all too often couched in the seemingly benevolent language of ‘vulnerable people’.

“It is precisely this labelling of ‘the vulnerable’ that obscures the structural inequities that produce vulnerabilities and maintains the uneven distribution of adaptive capacities in society. We need to move beyond this,” Professor Tschakert said.

Read the full report.

About Future Earth Australia

Based at the Australian Academy of Science, Future Earth Australia is a peak initiative that convenes leaders across expertise, sectors and the nation to advance the sustainability agenda and forge pathways to a thriving future.

Future Earth Australia has previously produced national strategies on sustainable oceans and coasts and sustainable cities and regions.

Future Earth Australia’s vision sees Australia and its people thriving in, and contributing to, a sustainable and equitable world. It brings together influential voices to deliver leading research and programs on Australia’s most pressing sustainability challenges, and connects to unique global networks to leverage international expertise.

Report references

Adger, W. N., Paavola, J., Huq, S. 2006. ‘Toward justice in adaptation to climate change,’ in: W.N. Adger, J. Paavola, S. Huq, M.J. Mace (eds.) 2006, Fairness in adaptation to climate change, MIT Press. Cambridge. pp. 1-18

Ali, T., Buergelt, P.T., Paton, D., Smith, J.A., Maypilama, E.L., Yungirrna,
D., Dhamarrandji, S., Gundjarranbuy, R., 2021. ‘Facilitating Sustainable Disaster Risk Reduction in Indigenous Communities: Reviving Indigenous Worldviews, Knowledge and Practices through Two-Way Partnering.’ International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 855.

Alston, M., and Whittenbury, K., 2013. Research, Action and Policy: Addressing the Gendered Impacts of Climate Change. Springer. Dordrecht.

Australian Government, Department of Home Affairs. 2018. Profiling Australia’s Vulnerability: the interconnected causes and cascading effects of systemic disaster risk. 58pp. url: https:// www.aidr.org.au/media/6682/national-resilience-taskforce- profiling-australias-vulnerability.pdf

Baldwin, C., Marshall, G., Ross, H., Cavaye J., Stephenson, J., Carter, L., Freeman, C., Curtis, A., and Syme, G. 2019. ‘Hybrid neoliberalism: implications for sustainable development.’ Society & Natural Resources, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 566-587.

Barnes, M.L., Wang, P., Cinner, J.E., Graham, N.A.J., Guerrero, A.M., Jasny, L., Lau, J., Sutcliffe, S.R., and Zamborain-Mason, J. 2020. Social determinants of adaptive and transformative responses to climate change. Nature Climate Change 10(9), 823-828. DOI: 10.1038/s41558-020-0871-4

Barnett, J., Fincher, B.R., Hurliman, A.C., Graham, S., and Mortreux,
C., 2014a. Incorporating Community Values into Climate Change Planning: A Guide for Government. The University of Melbourne. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/11343/39610

Behrendt, L. 2012. Indigenous Australia for dummies. John Wiley & Sons. Miltom.

Bowden, M. 2020. ‘Understanding food insecurity in Australia (Child Family Community Australia Paper No. 55).’ (Australian Institute of Family Studies) p.17.

Carey, R., Alexandra, L., and Murphy, M. 2022. ‘We can’t keep replying on charities and the food industry to supply food after disasters
– the government must lead. The Conversation Accessed: 4 March 2022 at: https://theconversation.com/we-cant-keep- relying-on-charities-and-the-food-industry-to-supply-food-after- disasters-the-government-must-lead-178215

Carmody, C. 2012. ‘Considering future generations – sustainability in theory and practice.’ Economic Roundup. The Treasury, Australian Government, Issue 3. pp. 65-91.

Cerutti, F. 2009. ‘Why should we care for future generations?’ IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, vol. 6, 132002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1307/6/13/132002

Cinner, J. E., Adger, W.N., Allison, E.H., Barnes, M.L., Brown, K., Cohen, P.J., Gelcich, S., Hicks, C.C., Hughes., T.P., Lau, J., Marshall,
N.A., and Morrison, T.H., 2018. ‘Building adaptive capacity to climate change in tropical coastal communities.’ Nature Climate Change, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 117-123.

Cohen-Shacham, E., Andrade, A., Dalton, J., Dudley, N., Jones, M., Kumar, C., Maginnis, S., Maynard, S., Nelson, C.R., Renaud, F.G., Welling, R., and Walters, G. 2019. ‘Core principles for successfully implementing and upscaling nature-based solutions.’ Environmental Science & Policy, no.98, pp. 20-29.

Cole, L., Eburn, M., Dovers, S. and Gough, M. 2018. ‘Can major post-event inquiries and reviews contribute to lessons management?’ The Australian Journal of Emergency Management, vol. 33, pp. 34-39.

Commonwealth of Australia 2018. ‘Profiling Australia’s Vulnerability: The interconnected causes and cascading effects of systemic disaster risk’. Department of Home Affairs. Available at: https:// www.aidr.org.au/media/6682/national-resilience-taskforce- profiling-australias-vulnerability.pdf.

Crosweller, M. and Tschakert, P. 2020. ‘Disaster management leadership and policy making: a critical examination of communitarian and individualistic understandings of resilience and vulnerability.’ Climate Policy, pp. 1-19.

Crosweller, M. and Tschakert, P. 2021. ‘Disaster management and the
need for a reinstated social contract of shared responsibility’. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, vol. 63, pp. 1-13.

Crosweller, M. 2022. ‘Disaster management and the need for a relational leadership framework founded upon compassion, care, and justice.’ Climate risk management, vol. 35, 100404.

Curato, N., Farrell, D.M., Geissel, B., Gronlund, K., Mockler, P., Pilet, J., Renwick, A., Rose, J., Setala, M., Suiter, J. 2021. Deliberative Mini-Publics. Bristol University Press. Bristol

Deloitte Access Economics, 2016. ‘The Economic Cost of the Social Impact of Natural Disasters.’ (Australian Business Roundtable for Disaster Resilience and Safer Communities: Canberra) p.116. Available at: http://australianbusinessroundtable.com.au/our- papers/social-costs-report

Dhillon, C. M. 2020. ‘Indigenous feminisms: Disturbing colonialism in environmental science partnerships’. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 483-500.

Dovers, S. 2022. ‘Mainstreaming disaster risk reduction, seriously?’ Australian Journal of Emergency Management, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 20-23.

Dovers, S, and Hezri, A. 2010. ‘Institutions and policy processes: the means to the end of adaptation’ Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, vol. 1, pp. 212-231.

Dow, K., Berkhout, F., Preston, B. L., Klein, R. J., Midgley, G., and Shaw, M. R. 2013. ‘Limits to adaptation’. Nature Climate Change, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 305-307.

Dunlop, M., Parris, H., Ryan, P., and Kroon, F., 2013. ‘Climate-ready conservation objectives: a scoping study’. National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, Gold Coast, Australia. Available at: http://www.nccarf.edu.au/publications/climate- ready-conservation-objectives-scoping-study

Espinoza, D., Morris, J., Baroud, H., Bisogno, M., Cifuentes, A., Gentzoglanis, A., Luccioni, L., Rojo, J., and Vahedifard, F. 2020. ‘The role
of traditional discounted cash flows in the tragedy of the horizon: another inconvenient truth.’ Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 632-660.

Fazey, I., Wise, R. M., Lyon, C., Câmpeanu, C., Moug, P., and Davies, T. E. 2016. ‘Past and future adaptation pathways’. Climate and Development, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 26-44.

Fears, R., Abdullah K.A.B., Canales-Holzeis, C., Caussy, D., Haines, A., Harper, S.L., McNeil, J.N., Mogwitz, J., ter Meulen, V. 2021. Evidence-informed policy for tackling adverse climate change effects on health: Linking regional and global assessments of science to catalyse action. PLOS Med vol. 18, no. 7, e1003719.

Fieldman, G. 2011. ‘Neoliberalism, the production of vulnerability and the hobbled state: Systemic barriers to climate adaptation’. Climate and Development, vol. 3, no. 2, pp.159-174.

Fletcher, M. S., Hamilton, R., Dressler, W., and Palmer, L. 2021. ‘Indigenous knowledge and the shackles of wilderness’. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 118, no. 40, e2022218118.

Fraser, N. 1998. Social Justice in the Age of Identity Politics: Redistribution, Recognition, and Participation, in: G.B. Peterson, (ed.) The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, vol 19. University of Utah Press. Salt Lake City.

Garcia, A., and Tschakert, P. 2022. Intersectional subjectivities and climate change adaptation: An attentive analytical approach for examining power, emancipatory processes, and transformation. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.

Gibson-Graham, J. K., and Dombroski, K. 2020. ‘Introduction to The Handbook of Diverse Economies: inventory as ethical intervention’ in J.K. Gibson-Graham and K. Dombroski (eds.) The Handbook of Diverse Economies. Edward Elgar Publishing. Cheltenham. pp. 1-25.

Gibson-Graham, J.K., Hill, A., and Law, L. 2016, ‘Re-embedding economies in ecologies: resilience building in more than human communities’, Building Research & Information, vol. 44, no. 7, pp. 703-716.

Godden, N.J., Wijekoon, D., and Wrigley, K. 2022. ‘Social (In)justice, climate change and climate policy in Western Australia’. Environmental Sociology. DOI: 10.1080/23251042.2022.2069216

Gorman-Murray, A., Morris, S., Keppel, K., McKinnon, S. and Dominey- Howes, D. 2017. ‘Problems and Possibilities on the Margins: LGBT Experiences in the 2011 Queensland Floods.’ Gender, Place & Culture, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 37-51.

Green Climate Fund. 2021. ‘Accelerating and scaling up climate innovation. How the Green Climate Fund’s approach can deliver new climate solutions for developing countries.’ Green Climate Fund Working Paper No.4.

Hatvani-Kovacs, G., Belusko, M., Pockett, J., and Boland, J. 2018. ‘Heat stress-resistant building design in the Australian context.’ Energy and Buildings, vol. 158, pp. 290-299.

Henrique, K. P., & Tschakert, P. (2022). Everyday limits to adaptation. Oxford Open Climate Change, vol. 2, no. 1, kgab013.

Henrique, K. P., Tschakert, P., du Coudray, C. B., Horwitz, P., Krueger, K. D. C., & Wheeler, A. J. 2022. ‘Navigating loss and value trade-offs in a changing climate.’ Climate Risk Management, vol. 35, 100405.

Hickel, J. 2021. ‘What does degrowth mean? A few points of clarification.’ Globalizations, vol. 18, no.7, pp. 1105-1111.

Hill, R., Adam, C., Alangui, W.V., Molnar, Z., Aumeeruddy-Thomas, Y., Bridgewater, P., Tengo, M., Thaman, R., Adou Yao, C.Y., Berkes, F., Carino, J., Carneiro da Cunha, M., Diaw, M.C., Diaz, S., Figueroa, V.E., Fisher, J., Hardison, P., Ichikawa, K., Kariuki, P., Karki, M., Lyver, P.O.B, Malmer, P., Masardule, O., Oteng Yeboah, A.A., Pacheco, D., Pataridze, T., Perez, E., Roue., M.M, Roba, H., Rubis, J., Saito, O., Xue, D. 2020. ‘Working with Indigenous, local and scientific knowledge in assessments of nature and nature’s linkages with people.’ Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, vol. 43, pp. 8-20.

Hughes, L., Dean, A., and Koegel, M. 2021. ‘Neighbourhood Issue: Climate costs and risks to councils.’ Climate Council. Available
at: https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/wp-content/ uploads/2021/09/Report-Councils-on-the-Frontline_V5-FA_ Low_Res_Single_Pages.pdf

Hughes, N., and Gooday, P. 2021. ‘Analysis of climate change impacts and adaptation on Australian farms.’ (ABARES Insights: Canberra) p.15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25814/589v-7662

Hunt, S. and Eburn, M. 2018. ‘How can business share responsibility for disaster resilience?’ Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol. 77, pp. 482-491.

Hussey, K., Price, R., Pittock, J., Livingstone, J., Dovers, S., Fisher, D., and Hatfield Dodds, S. 2013. ‘Statutory frameworks, institutions and policy processes for climate adaptation: Do Australia’s existing statutory frameworks, associated institutions and policy processes support or impede national adaptation planning and practice?’ National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, Gold Coast. Available at: https://nccarf.edu. au/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Hussey_2013_Statutory_ frameworks_institutions.pdf

IPCC. 2014. ‘Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Part A: Global and Sectoral Aspects; Part B: Regional Aspects. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.’ (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK and New York, USA) p.1132 + 688 pp.

IPCC. 2022. ‘Summary for Policymakers’ [H.-O. Pörtner, D.C. Roberts,
E.S. Poloczanska, K. Mintenbeck, M. Tignor, A. Alegría, M. Craig, S. Langsdorf, S. Löschke, V. Möller, A. Okem (eds.)]. In: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [H.-O. Pörtner, D.C. Roberts, M. Tignor, E.S. Poloczanska, K. Mintenbeck, A. Alegría, M. Craig, S. Langsdorf, S. Löschke, V. Möller, A. Okem, B. Rama (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press.

IPBES. 2019. ‘Summary for policymakers of the global assessment
report on biodiversity and ecosystem services of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.’ (IPBES secretariat: Bonn, Germany) p.56. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3553579

Janssen, M. J., Torrens, J., Wesseling, J. H., and Wanzenböck, I. 2021. ‘The promises and premises of mission-oriented innovation policy—A reflection and ways forward.’ Science and Public Policy, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 438-444.

Kates, R.W., Travis, W., and Wilbanks, T.J. 2012. ‘Transformational adaptation when incremental adaptations to climate change are insufficient.’ Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 109, no. 19, pp. 7156-7161.

Krieg, A. 2009. ‘The experience of collective trauma in Australian Indigenous communities.’ Australasian Psychiatry, vol. 17, pp.S28–S32.

Kwaymullina, A. 2016. ‘Research, ethics and Indigenous peoples: An Australian Indigenous perspective on three threshold considerations for respectful engagement.’ AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 437–449.

Lambert, A. E., and Beilin, R. 2021. ‘The ‘politics of scale’ and the local: How ‘hyper-localism’ and ‘temporal passivity’ affect adaptation.’ Environmental Science & Policy, vol. 118, pp. 63–70.

Latulippe, N., & Klenk, N. (2020). Making room and moving over: knowledge co-production, Indigenous knowledge sovereignty and the politics of global environmental change decision-making. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, vol. 42, pp. 7-14.

Lawrence, J., and Mackey B. et al. 2022. ‘Chapter 11: Australasia’. IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, Working Group II (Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability).

Lee, E., Richardson, B., and Ross, H. 2020. ‘The ‘Uluru statement from the heart’: Investigating Indigenous Australian sovereignty.’ Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, vol. 23, no. 1-2, pp. 18-41.

Lee, S., Paavola, J., and Dessai, S. 2022. ‘Towards a deeper understanding of barriers to national climate change adaptation policy: A systematic review.’ Climate Risk Management, 100414.

Lin, B.B., Capon, T., Langston. A., Taylor, B., Wise, R., Williams, R., Lazarow, N. 2017. ‘Adaptation Pathways in Coastal Case Studies: Lessons Learned and Future Directions.’ Coastal Management, pp. 1-22.

Lukasiewicz, A., and Baldwin, C. (eds). 2020. Natural hazards and disaster justice. Palgrave Macmillan. Singapore.

Lukasiewicz, A., Dovers, S., Robin, L., McKay, J., Schilizzi, S., Graham, S. (eds.) 2017. Natural resources and environmental justice: Australian perspectives. CSIRO Publishing. Melbourne.

Lukasiewicz, A., and O’Donnell, T. (eds.) 2022. Complex disasters: compounding, cascading, and protracted. Palgrave Macmillan. Singapore.

Malloy J.T., Ashcraft, C.M. 2020. ‘A framework for implementing socially just climate adaptation’. Climate Change, vol. 160, no. 1, pp. 1-14.

Mazzucato, M. 2018. ‘Mission-oriented research & innovation in the European Union’. European Commission. Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission, Brussells. Available at: https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/default/files/ research_and_innovation/contact/documents/ec_rtd_ mazzucato-report-issue2_072019.pdf

Matthews, V., Longman, J., Berry, H.L., Passey, M., Bennett-Levy, J., Morgan, G.G., Pit, S., Rolfe, M., and Bailie, R.S. 2019. ‘Differential mental health impact six months after extensive river flooding in rural Australia: A cross-sectional analysis through an equity lens. Frontiers in Public Health, vol. 7, pp. 367.

McLennan, B. J. and Handmer, J. 2014. ‘Sharing responsibility in Australian disaster management: Final report for the sharing responsibility project.’ East Melbourne, Victoria.

Miller, F. 2014. ‘Too hot to handle: Assessing the social impacts of extreme heat.’ Macquarie University. Sydney. Available at: https://www. mq.edu.au/pubstatic/public/download.jsp%3Fid%3D198078

Moggridge, B. 2019. ‘Indigenous Engagement Protocols for Threatened Species Researchers, Threatened Species Recovery Hub.’ National Environmental Science Program. Available at: tsr-hub- indig-protocols-report_v6.pdf (nespthreatenedspecies.edu.au)

Moggridge, B., Pecl, G., Lansbury, N., Creamer, S., and Mosby, V. 2022. ‘IPCC reports still exclude Indigenous voices. Come join us at our sacred fires to find answers to climate change.’ The Conversation.

Moggridge, B.J., and Thompson, R.M. (2021). Cultural value of water
and western water management: an Australian Indigenous perspective. Australasian Journal of Water Resources, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 4-14.

Moore, T., Ridley, I., Strengers, Y., Maller, C., and Horne, R. 2017. ‘Dwelling performance and adaptive summer comfort in low-income Australian households.’ Building Research & Information, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 443-456.

Mortreux, C., and Barnett, J. 2017. ‘Adaptive capacity: Exploring the research frontier.” Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, vol. 8, no. 4. e467.

Moser, S. C., and Ekstrom, J. A. 2010. ‘A framework to diagnose barriers to climate change adaptation.’ Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 107, no. 51, pp. 22026-22031.

Muiderman, K., Zurek, M., Vervoort, J., Gupta, A., Hasnain, S., and Driessen, P. 2022. ‘The anticipatory governance of sustainability transformations: Hybrid approaches and dominant perspectives.’ Global Environmental Change, vol. 73, 102452.

Mummery, J. 2021. ‘Science-policy practice interfaces for resilient housing in a changing climate: a reform agenda for Australia’s building regulation.’ Housing and Society, pp.1-20.

Nakashima, D.J., Galloway McLean, K., Thulstrup, H.D., Ramos Castillo, A. and Rubis, J.T. 2012. ‘Weathering uncertainty: Traditional knowledge for climate change assessment and adaptation.’ Paris, UNESCO, and Darwin, UNU.

Neale, T., Carter, R., Nelson, T., and Bourke, M. 2019. ‘Walking together:
a decolonising experiment in bushfire management on Dja Dja Wurrung country.’ cultural geographies, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 341-359.

Norman, H. 2017. ‘Transforming the relationship between Aboriginal peoples and the NSW Government: Aboriginal Affairs NSW research agenda 2018-2023.’ Aboriginal Affairs NSW Sydney. Available at: https://www.aboriginalaffairs.nsw.gov.au/media/ website_pages/research-and-publications/AANSW-Research- Agenda-2018-2023-Transforming-the-relationship-between- Aboriginal-peoples-and-the-NSW-Government.pdf

Norton-Smith, K., Lynn, K., Chief, K. Cozzetto, K., Donatuto, J., Hiza R., Margaret, K., Maldonado, L.E, Viles, J., Carson, W, Kyle, P. 2016. ‘Climate change and indigenous peoples: a synthesis of current impacts and experiences.’ U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station.

Novalia, W., McGrail, S., Rogers, B.C., Raven, R., Brown, R.R., and Loorbach, D. 2022. ‘Exploring the interplay between technological decline and deinstitutionalisation and sustainability transitions.’ Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 121703.

Nunn, P.D., and Reid, N.J. 2016. ‘Aboriginal memories of inundation of the Australian coast dating from more than 7000 years ago. Australian Geographer, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 11-47.

Nursey-Bray, M., Palmer, R, Smith, T.F., and Rist, P. 2019. ‘Old ways for new days: Australian Indigenous peoples and climate change.’ Local Environment, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 473-486.

Nursey-Bray, M., Palmer, R., Stuart, A., Arbon, V., and Rigney, L.I. 2020. ‘Scale, colonisation and adapting to climate change: Insights from the Arabana people, South Australia. Geoforum, vol. 114, pp. 138-150.

O’Bryan, K. 2017. ‘Giving a voice to the river and the role of Indigenous people: The Whanganui river settlement and river management in Victoria.’ Australian Indigenous Law Review, vol. 20, pp. 48-77.

O’Connell, D., Wise, R.M., Doerr, V., Grigg, N., Williams, R., Meharg, S., Dunlop, M., Meyers, J., Edwards, J., Osuchowski, M., and Crosweller, M. 2018. ‘Approach, methods and results for co-producing a systems understanding of disaster.’ Technical Report Supporting the Development of the Australian Vulnerability Profile. CSIRO, Australia. Available at: https:// knowledge.aidr.org.au/resources/profiling-australias- vulnerability/

O’Donnell, T. 2019. Contrasting land use policies for climate change adaptation: A case study of political and geo-legal realities for Australian coastal locations. Land Use Policy 88, 104145.

O’Mahony, T. 2021. ‘Cost-Benefit Analysis and the environment: The time horizon is of the essence.’ Environmental Impact Assessment Review, vol. 89, 106587.

Overland, I., and Sovacool, B.K. 2020. ‘The Misallocation of Climate Research Funding.’ Energy Research & Social Science, vol. 62, pp. 1-13.

Parkinson, D., Farrant, B. & Duncan, A. 2015. ‘Women and children’ in: R. Walker & W. Mason (eds.), Climate Change Adaptation for Health and Social Services. CSIRO Publishing. Clayton South. pp. 117-139.

Patel, S., Soanes, M., Rahman, M., Smith, B., Steinbach, D., Barrett, S. 2021.

Good climate finance guide: lessons for strengthening devolved climate finance. Working Paper, IIED, London. Available at: https://pubs.iied.org/10207iied

Pawson, H., Hulse, K., and Cheshire, L. 2015. ‘Addressing concentrations of disadvantage in urban Australia, AHURI Final Report No.247.’ Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute: Melbourne. Available at: http://www.ahuri.edu.au/publications/projects/ myrp704. Accessed Apr 2022.

Peel, J., and Markey-Towler, R. 2022. ‘Today’s disappointing federal court decision undoes 20 years of climate litigation progress in Australia.’ The Conversation. Accessed: 15-Mar-2022. Available at: https://theconversation.com/todays-disappointing-federal- court-decision-undoes-20-years-of-climate-litigation-progress- in-australia-179291

Piggott-McKellar, A. E., McNamara, K. E., Nunn, P. D., & Watson, J. E. 2019. ‘What are the barriers to successful community-based climate change adaptation? A review of grey literature.’ Local Environment, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 374-390.

Pineda-Pinto, M., Nygaard, C.A., Chandrabose, M., and Frantzeskaki, N. 2021. ‘Mapping social-ecological injustice in Melbourne, Australia:
An innovative systematic methodology for planning just cities.’ Land Use Policy, vol. 104, 105361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j. landusepol.2021.105361

Pörtner, H.O., Roberts, D.C., Tignor, M., Poloczanska, E.S., Mintenbeck, K., Alegría, A., Craig, M., Langsdorf, S.,Löschke, S., Möller, V., Okem, A., Rama, B., (eds.) Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press.

Productivity Commission. 2012. Barriers to Effective Climate Change Adaptation. Report No. 59, Final Inquiry Report. Canberra.

Race, D., Mathew, S., Campbell, M., Hampton, K. 2016. ‘Understanding climate adaptation investments for communities living in desert Australia: experiences of indigenous communities.’ Climate Change pp.1-15.

Redvers, N., Celidwen, Y., Schultz, C., Horn, O., Githaiga, C., Vera, M., Perdrisat, M., Plume, L.M., Kobei, D., Kain, M.C. and Poelina, A., Rojas, J. N., Blondin, B. 2022. ‘The determinants of planetary health: an Indigenous consensus perspective.’ The Lancet Planetary Health, vol. 6, no. 2, e156-e163.

Resurrección, B.P., Bee, B.A., Dankelman, I., Park, C.M.Y, Halder, M., and McMullen, C.P. 2019. ‘Gender-transformative climate change adaptation: advancing social equity’ Background paper to the 2019 report of the Global Commission on Adaptation. Rotterdam and Washington, DC.

Rigg, J. and Mason, L.R. 2018. ‘Five Dimensions of Climate Science Reductionism.’ Nature Climate Change, vol. 8, no. 12, pp. 1030-1032.

Rogers, B.C., Dunn, G., Hammer, K., Novalia, W., de Haan, F.J., Brown, L., Brown, R.R., Lloyd, S., Urich, C., Wong, T.H.F., Chesterfield,
C. 2020. ‘Water Sensitive Cities Index: A diagnostic tool to assess water sensitivity and guide management actions.’ Water Research, vol. 186, 116411.

Rose, D.B. 1996. ‘Nourishing Terrains: Australian Aboriginal views of landscape and wilderness.’ (Australian Heritage Commission, Commonwealth of Australia: Canberra) p.100.

Roy, J., Tscharket, P., Waisman, H., Abdul Halim, S., Antwi-Agyei, P., Dasgupta, P., Hayward, B., Kanninen, M., Liverman, D., Okereke, C., Pinho, P.F., Riahi, K., and Suarez Rodriguez, A. G. 2018. ‘Sustainable development, poverty eradication and reducing inequalities.’ IPCC, Special Report on 1.5C Global Warming. Available at: https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/ sites/2/2019/05/SR15_Chapter5_Low_Res.pdf

Sangha, K., Edwards, A., and Russell-Smith, J. 2019. ‘Long-term solutions to improve emergency management services in remote communities in northern Australia.’ Australian Journal of Emergency Management, vol. 34, no. 2, pp.23–31.

Saunders, ML, Waltham, NJ, Cannard, T, Sheppard, M, Fischer, M, Twomey, A, Bishop, M, Boody, K, Callaghan, D, Fulton, B, Lovelock, CE, Pinto, MM, McLeod, IM, McPherson, T, Morris, R, Pomeroy,
A, Ronan, M, Swearer, S, Steven, A. 2022. A roadmap for coordinated landscape-scale coastal and marine ecosystem restoration. Report to the National Environmental Science Program. CSIRO, Brisbane QLD.

Schlosberg, D. 2012. ‘Climate Justice and Capabilities: A Framework for Adaptation Policy.’ Ethics and International Affairs, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 445-461.

Seddon, N., Smith, A., Smith, P., Key, I., Chausson, A., Girardin, C., House, J., Srivastava, S., and Turner, B. 2021. ‘Getting the message right on nature-based solutions to climate change.’ Global Change Biology, vol. 27, no. 8, pp. 1518-1546.

Shi, L., and Moser, S. 2021. Transformative climate adaptation in the United States: Trends and prospects. Science, vol. 372, no. 6549.

Singh, C., Iyer, S., New, M. G., Few, R., Kuchimanchi, B., Segnon, A. C., & Morchain, D. 2021. ‘Interrogating ‘effectiveness’ in climate change adaptation: 11 guiding principles for adaptation research and practice.’ Climate and Development, pp. 1-15.

Spence, M.D. 1999. Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks. Oxford University Press. New York and Oxford.

Stafford Smith M, Cribb J. 2009. ‘Dry times: a blueprint for a red land.’ CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne.

Stern, N. 2006. The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review. Cambridge University Press.

Strengers, Y., and Maller, C. 2017. ‘Adapting to ‘extreme’ weather: mobile practice memories of keeping warm and cool as a climate change adaptation strategy.’ Environment and planning A, vol. 49, no. 6, pp. 1432-1450.

Sultana, F. 2021. ‘Climate change, COVID-19, and the co-production of injustices: a feminist reading of overlapping crises.’ Social & Cultural Geography, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 447-460.

Sultana, F. 2022. ‘The unbearable heaviness of climate coloniality.’ Political Geography, 102638.

Thiery, W., Lange, S., Rogelj, J., Schleussner, C.-F., Gudmundsson, L., Seneviratne Sonia, I., Andrijevic, M., Frieler, K., Emanuel,
K., Geiger, T., Bresch David, N., Zhao, F., Willner Sven, N., Büchner, M., Volkholz, J., Bauer, N., Chang, J., Ciais, P., Dury, M., François, L., Grillakis, M., Gosling Simon, N., Hanasaki,
N., Hickler, T., Huber, V., Ito, A., Jägermeyr, J., Khabarov, N., Koutroulis, A., Liu, W., Lutz, W., Mengel, M., Müller, C., Ostberg, S., Reyer Christopher, P.O., Stacke, T., and Wada, Y. 2021. ‘Intergenerational inequities in exposure to climate extremes.’ Science, vol. 374, no. 6564, pp. 158-160.

Tran, T., Weir, J.K., Strelein, L.M., and Stacey, C. 2014. ‘Indigenous governance and climate change adaptation: two native title case studies from Australia’ in: J.P Palutikof, S.L Boulter, J. Barnett & D. Rissik (eds), Applied studies in climate adaptation, Wiley. Oxford, pp. 307-315.

Tschakert, P., Schlosberg, D., Celermajer, D., Rickards, L., Winter, C., Thaler, M., Stewart-Harawira, M., Verlie, B. 2021. ‘Multispecies Justice: Climate-just futures with, for, and beyond humans.’ WIREs Climate Change.

UK Adaptation Sub-Committee. 2012. ‘Climate change – is the UK preparing for flooding and water scarcity? (Progress Report 2012).’ UK Climate Change Committee: London. Available at: http://www. theccc.org.uk/publication/climate-change-is-the-uk-preparing- for-flooding-and-water-scarcity-3rd-progress-report-2012/

UNDP. 2016. ‘Ensuring Gender-Responsive Climate Change Adaptation’. United Nations. New York. Available at: https://www.undp. org/sites/g/files/zskgke326/files/publications/CCAF-Gender- Responsive-Adaptation.pdf

van Kerkhoff, L., Munera, C., Dudley, N., Guevara, O., Wyborn, C., Figueroa, C., Dunlop, M., Hoyos, M.A., Castiblanco. J., Becerra, L. 2019. ‘Towards future-oriented conservation: Managing protected areas in an era of climate change.’ Ambio, vol. 48, no. 7, pp. 699-713.

Vásquez-Fernández, A. M. 2020. ‘Resurgence of relationality: reflections on decolonizing and indigenizing “sustainable development”.’ Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, vol. 43, pp. 65-70.

Veracini, L., 2011. ‘Introducing: Settler colonial studies.’ Settler colonial studies, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-12.

Vermeulen, S.J., Dinesh, D., Howden, S.M., Cramer, L., and Thornton, P.K. 2018. Transformation in Practice: A Review of Empirical Cases of Transformational Adaptation in Agriculture Under Climate Change. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 2(65). DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2018.00065

Walker, B.W., Porter, D.J., Marsh, I. 2012. ‘Fixing the Hole in Australia’s Heartland: How Government needs to work in remote Australia.’ Desert Knowledge Australia, Alice Springs. Available at: http:// www.desertknowledge.com.au/News/Report-Calls-for-Radical- Change-to-Governance-of-R

Warren-Myers, G., Hurlimann, A. and Bush, J. 2020. ‘Barriers to climate change adaption in the Australian property industry.’ Journal of Property Investment and Finance, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 449-462.

Weir, J.K., 2021. Terrain. Borderlands, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 171–206.

Weir, JK, Duff, N. 2017. Who is looking after country? Interpreting and attributing land management responsibilities on native title lands. Australian Journal of Public Administration, 76(4):426-442.

Weir, J.K., Neale, T., and Clarke, E.A. 2021. ‘The recalibration of our relationships with science (and nature) by natural hazard risk mitigation practitioners.’ Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211019828

Williamson, B., and Weir, J.K. 2021. ‘Indigenous peoples and natural hazard research, policy and practice in southern temperate Australia: an agenda for change.’ Australian Journal of Emergency Management, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 62-67.

Wise, R.M., Marinopoulos, J., O’Connell, D., Mesic, N., Tieman, G., Gorddard, R., Chan, J., Flett, D., Lee, A., Meharg, S., and Helfgott, A. 2022. ‘Enabling Resilience Investment Guidance Version 1’ . Value Advisory Partners, University of Adelaide. CSIRO, Canberra, Australia. Available at: https://research.csiro.au/enabling- resilience-investment/

Whyte, K. P. 2013. ‘Justice forward: Tribes, climate adaptation and responsibility.’ in: J.K. Maldonado, B. Colombi, R. Pandya (eds.) Climate change and Indigenous Peoples in the United States, Springer Cham. pp. 9-22.

Wiesel, I., Liu, F., and Buckle, C. 2018. ‘Locational disadvantage and the spatial distribution of government expenditure on urban infrastructure and services in metropolitan Sydney (1988– 2015).’ Geographical Research, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 285-297. https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12245

Williams, S., Bi, P., Newbury, J., Robinson, G., Pisaniello, D., Saniotis, A., Hansen, A., 2013. ‘Extreme Heat and Health: Perspectives from Health Service Providers in Rural and Remote Communities
in South Australia’. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 10, no. 11, pp. 5565-5583.

Williams, S., Nitschke, M., Wondmagegn, B.Y., Tong, M., Xiang, J., Hansen,
A., Nairn, J., Karnon, J., and Bi, P. 2022. ‘Evaluating cost benefits from a heat health warning system in Adelaide, South Australia.’ Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 149-154.

Winter, C. 2021. ‘A seat at the table: Te Awa Tupua, Te Urewera, Taranaki Maunga and Political Representation.’ Borderlands, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 116-139.

Wise, S.M., 2012. ‘Nonhuman rights to personhood.’ Pace Environmental Law Review, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 1278–1290.

Yenneti, K., Ding, L., Prasad, D., Ulpiani, G., Paolini, R., Haddad, S., and Santamouris, M. 2020. ‘Urban overheating and cooling potential in Australia: An evidence-based review.’ Climate, vol. 8, no. 11, pp. 126.

Ziervogel, G., Pelling, M., Cartwright, A., Chu, E., Deshpande, T., Harris,
L., Hyams, K., Kaunda, J., Klaus, B., Michael, K., Pasquini, L., Pharoah, R., Rodina, L., Scott, D., and Zweig, P. 2017. ‘Inserting rights and justice into urban resilience: a focus on everyday risk.’ Environment & Urbanization, vol. 29, pp. 123-138.

Pledge Your Vote Now
Change language