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Capacity, opportunity and impediments

Capacity, opportunity and impediments. Hugh Possingham, Federation Fellow The Ecology Centre, Centre for Applied Environmental Decision Analysis and ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions ($12M plus university contributions)

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Capacity, opportunity and impediments

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  1. Capacity, opportunity and impediments Hugh Possingham, Federation Fellow The Ecology Centre, Centre for Applied Environmental Decision Analysis and ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions ($12M plus university contributions) The University of Queensland Read Decision Point www.aeda.edu.au/news the ecology centre university of queensland australia www.uq.edu.au/spatialecology h.possingham@uq.edu.au

  2. Capacity UBC UQ CSIRO JCU Cambridge

  3. Capacity • Most cited ecologists/environmental scientists in past ten years in the world • Hughes 21 JCU • Westoby 35 • HoeghGuldberg 51 UQ • Lindenmayer 52 • Possingham 53 UQ • Pressey 93 JCU • Pandolfi 96 UQ Shine, Londsdale, Bellwood, Walker (140) • Two ARC Centres of Excellence in the environment + TERN

  4. State agencies • VIC DSE, Arthur Rylah • NSW DECC, but in decline • WA DECC, but isolated • Queensland Herbarium

  5. Impediments • When I arrived at UQ “applied ecology” was dirty word • Impediments to cooperation (we have a paper on solutions, incentives) • Discovery to delivery is ten to twenty years • Quantitative skill base in state agencies and regional bodies • Accountability – weak NGOs

  6. Solutions – a marketing problem • Environmental accounts, evaluation, projecting and marketing (Healthy Waterways) • Partnerships (e.g. Tim Flannery – last week on state biodiversity strategy) • Need a new institutional arrangement • Setting targets, using decision science tools to choose options, assessing outcomes cost-efficiently and marketing outcomes/performance • Real active adaptive management exercises on major management questions • Confusion about what is science and what it can do

  7. Some CEED Research programs • 1. The new EPBC Act may focus on strategic landscape assessment - what will they look like? • 2. Can we operationalise the idea of resilience in a decision science framework? • 3. Can we develop a strategy for transparently evaluating, monitoring, reporting, and learning about the benefits of climate change adaptation investment options? • 4. How do we integrate preferences of multiple stakeholders in dynamic ecological systems? • 5. How can we characterise and cost-effectively manage multiple threats under uncertainty and with limited data? • 6. Is it possible to make tools that deal with the complexities and uncertainties of environmental management problems that are still usable? • 7. How do we optimise landscape-scale restoration for multiple environmental benefits

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