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    Modelling coastal planning in southwest Western Australia: complexity, collaboration and climate adaptation

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    Authors
    Stocker, Laura
    Kennedy, Deborah
    Metcalf, S.
    Dambacher, J.
    Middle, Garry
    Wood, David
    Date
    2011
    Type
    Conference Paper
    
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    Stocker, Laura and Kennedy, Deborah and Metcalf, Sarah and Dambacher, Jeffrey M. and Middle, Garry and Wood, David. 2011. Modelling coastal planning in southwest Western Australia: complexity, collaboration and climate adaptation, in Chan, F., Marinova, D. and Anderssen, R.S. (ed), MODSIM2011: 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Dec 12-16 2011. Perth, WA: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand.
    Source Title
    Modelling coastal planning in southwest Western Australia: complexity, collaboration and climate adaptation
    Source Conference
    MODSIM 2011 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation; Sustaining Our Future: understnding and living with uncertainty
    Additional URLs
    http://www.mssanz.org.au/modsim2011/G8/stocker.pdf
    ISBN
    9780987214300
    School
    Sustainable Policy Institute (CUSP)
    Remarks

    Copyright © 2011 The Authors and MSSANZ

    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43771
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    This action-research project investigates the extent to which current coastal planning arrangements can respond to climate change impacts such as coastal erosion and recession in the southwest of Western Australia. The complex social ecological system that comprises coastal planning in the region was modelled in a collaborative process. This took the form of a major action research workshop followed by further small workshops and interviews with key actors. The modelling process has implications for coastal planning as it shows that despite recent changes to coastal planning policy there are still significant areas of liability resulting from climate change that are not yet accounted for by governance. More generally, private and public coastal developments in WA are in a phase of rapid growth, with observable degradation of the coastal environment. Within the context of the model system, this implies that the positive feedback subsystems are strongly driving the system, and current levels of response to public liability and environmental advocacy are relatively weak and inadequate to achieve sustainable coastal management. For this system to be stable requires that negative system feedback be stronger than positive feedback. Future modelling efforts will investigate potential interventions and restructuring of governance system to achieve goals of sustainable development. Thus far, the main use of the model has been as a heuristic device to discuss the coastal planning system with key informants, and to identify constraints and opportunities to coastal adaptation through the planning system.

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