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Steve Dovers, Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU

Shaping Australia’s Resilience: Policy development for uncertain futures. A21 Workshop, 19 Feb 2010. Steve Dovers, Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU. Central point:.

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Steve Dovers, Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU

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  1. Shaping Australia’s Resilience: Policy development for uncertain futures.A21 Workshop, 19 Feb 2010 Steve Dovers, Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU

  2. Central point: • If “resilience thinking” is to inform policy development and implementation, then its users and promoters must:-- draw on existing knowledge from public policy, public administration, institutional theory and design, law, history, etc, and…-- avoid “ortism” (ie. someone oughta…), and start to explore the detail of and recommend structures and processes. • Not that they don’t at all, but not enough. • Three ideas from three sources…. Dovers A21 Resilience 2/2010

  3. 1. Resilience & institutions: • Resilience – and socio-ecological systems, vulnerability-adaptation studies, adaptive management (a bit better), etc do not characterise what resilience means in institutional terms. • For example, further developing (i) Resistance and maintenance, (ii) Change at the margins, (iii) Openness and adaptability. • Handmer & Dovers (2009) (orig 1996) A typology of resilience: rethinking institutions for sustainable development. In: Schipper & Burton, The Earthscan reader on adaptation to climate change. Dovers A21 Resilience 2/2010

  4. 2. Resilience and other ideas • Avoiding group think, self-referencing, and borrowing only of friendly/cognate ideas. • Eg. “resilience thinking” and “optimisation for conservation” have largely evolved separately, and are often seen as conflictual, but we argue may be complementary – one strategic, one operational. • Fischer et al (2009) Integrating resilience thinking and optimisation for conservation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. Dovers A21 Resilience 2/2010

  5. 3. Entering foreign territory - implementation Too much resilience, adaptation, socio-ecological systems, etc literature and policy discussion:-- states ends and aspirations, but not the means of getting there (policy, institutional and administrative structures and processes).-- does not draw on relevant research and practice in NRM, disasters, public policy, sustainable development, etc. • Dovers & Hezri (in press 2010) Institutions and policy processes: the means to the ends of adaptation. WIRES Climate Change. Dovers A21 Resilience 2/2010

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