Under the Act, these sectors must develop Adaptation Action Plans (AAPs) every five years, with the first due in October 2020. The aim of a sector-based approach is to develop coordinated and coherent sectoral policy responses in anticipation of the complex challenges of adapting to climate change. Sectors must also work with each other to address climate change risks and vulnerabilities, identify trade-offs, and realise potential opportunities. The need to work both within and across sectors presents many governance challenges. These include crossing conventional boundaries and bringing together policy makers and stakeholders with different objectives, interests and ways of working.
As part of this process we provided expert advice to Department of Land, Water, Environment and Planning (DELWP) who were coordinating the AAP process. Our approach is based on systems thinking and adaptive governance research and practice. The project involves three main deliverables.
Regenerative Environments and Climate Action brings together our expertise in understanding cities as integral to environmental justice, the need for urgent climate action, improving ecological processes, and connections with more-than-human worlds.
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
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