Supporting climate adaptation planning and decision-making for regional NRM

Climate adaptation presents a range of specific challenges to natural resource management (NRM) planning. These challenges are not necessarily new, but climate change risks prompt the need to consider them in NRM planning, potentially via innovative solutions.

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What to Expect

Climate change will have a direct impact on the natural resources and human communities that are the focus of NRM groups. At the same time climate change will exacerbate the existing pressures that are managed by NRM groups and challenge the responses to these pressures. The NRM Adaptation Checklist has been developed to: support NRM planners to take […]

Farming near Casterton. Photo Richard Murphy

Applying an adaptation lens

Incorporating climate adaptation lens to NRM planning presents four key challenges. While elements of these challenges may not be new, climate adaptation may intensify the challenges, creating a need for even more innovative solutions. These include: NRM planners must find ways to plan that are consistent with the range of likely futures and possible desired outcomes. This necessarily […]

Image credits: Waterwatch King River; Photographer: Alison Skinner; Credit: North East CMA

The NRM Adaptation Checklist

Why a general approach to adaptation planning? We developed this approach with recognition that there is a great deal of variation among Australian NRM groups; as such, it supports the integration of climate change adaptation into planning regardless of the current style or stage of planning. By focusing on five general components of planning, this […]

S2S monitoring partnership, by Esther Beaton

Adaptation Campus

In this section we provide a summary of resources and tools used in The NRM Adaptation Checklist. To know more about a certain topic, click on the arrow against it. Uncertainty can be managed and accommodated for in planning and should not be seen as a barrier to action as inaction may be more detrimental […]