Roundtable Series: Living with 2°C Plus – The Climate Change Adaptation Challenge
Event description
Living in a world of more than 2°C above pre-industrial temperatures will present a host of challenges to water, food, health, infrastructure, ecosystems, social equity, cultural heritage and more. All of these impacts will have costs. Current indications are that we are heading for at least a 2.5°C warmer world.
The Monash Green Lab roundtables, held in collaboration with the U.S. National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA), will bring together leading international and Australian thinkers from government, business and community sectors.
Roundtable 4: Learning from wildfire: Do institutions constrain our ability to manage risk reduction and recovery?
Time:
Thursday, 26 June at 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM (AEST). For US participants, the roundtable will take place on Wednesday 25 June, 4:30 PM Pacific Time, and 7:30 PM U.S East Coast Time.
While emergency services have improved the way they deal with extreme events and reduced loss of life, challenges remain in how we reduce risks and prepare on one hand, and recover from events on the other. Is our vision and agenda for risk and recovery limited by the institutions who manage these events? This roundtable will highlight different approaches and the extent to which our institutional silos constrain options and opportunities for risk reduction and recovery. It will do this through an exploration of recent wildfire events in the U.S. and Australia.
Host: Adjunct Senior Research Fellow Michael Spencer, Green Lab, Impact Labs, Monash Business School
Speakers:
Learning from the U.S. wildfires | |
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Louise Comfort is Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. As California braces itself for the next fire season, Louise and colleagues are working on a project, ‘resilience and recovery by design’, that links concepts learned from the devastating Los Angeles fire earlier this year to rebuilding the community to a more resilient standard that is less vulnerable to the next wildfire. | |
Matthew R. Auer is Dean and Arch Professor of Public and International Affairs in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia. Matthew is currently researching how reductions in federally-funded resilience efforts, fire suppression efforts and/or post-disaster response are affecting planning and response efforts at state and local level in the United States. He will talk about early findings from this research. | |
Learning from Australian bushfires | |
Briony Rogers is Professor of Systems Transformation at Monash University, CEO of Fire to Flourish and Director of Monash Sustainable Development Institute. Fire to Flourish is now in the final year of a five year program to partner communities to co-create tailored solutions for community-led disaster resilience. The program has seen good results from a model that prioritises community and Indigenous leadership, participatory governance and community-led grantmaking resulting in significantly strengthened disaster resilience. The program was awarded the prestigious National Community Award at the Resilient Australia Awards in 2024. | |
Janet Stanley is an Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Design at the University of Melbourne and Visiting Professor at the University of Hiroshima. Janet’s 2021 book Feeling the Heat: International perspectives on the prevention of wildfire ignition argues that if we are to reduce the trend of increasing incidence of wildfires we will need to utilise an expanded range of prevention approaches ranging from climate mitigation and adaptation to psychological and socio-economic factors that drive fires. In particular, she advocates coordinated and collaborative approaches across sectors, levels of government and international organisation. Her recent work has focused on climate adaptation. | |
Response | |
Oran Young is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at UC Santa Barbara. His scientific work encompasses research on collective choice and social institutions and international environmental governance. He will draw on his vast experience of international governance and environmental institutions to both respond to the panelists and bring together common themes and thoughts for future action. | |
Q&A | |
Dan Guttman co-chairs the International Panel of the National Academy of Public Administration in Washing D.C, is Professor at the Tianjin University Law School, an Adjunct Professor at the Fudan University - London School of Economics Institute for Global Public Policy and Fellow of the New York University US-Asia Law Institute. Dan will summarise and facilitate audience questions. |
Roundtable 5: Financing adaptation: will governments fund the transformational adaptation? If not, how do we bring private capital to fund transformational adaptation? - Join the waitlist.
Roundtable 6: Bottom-up adaptation: how do we build local adaptation governance and action - Join the waitlist.
Roundtable 7: Slow Burn - hidden costs of a warming world - Join the waitlist.
Roundtable 1: Where are we, why are we here and where do we want to go?
This webinar was held on Thursday 28 November 2024.
Roundtable 2: Extreme weather events, flood risk and stormwater systems
This webinar was held on Thursday 13 February.
Roundtable 3: Managing risk, value and insurance protection
This webinar was held on Friday 14 March.
Watch recordings of previous roundtables here.
Contact
greenlab@monash.edu
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