This is the Regional report which contains the findings of the project at a Regional level as well as the collaborative actions and opportunities identified by Project Partners and Councils. This report contains the following sections:
- Section 1: Introduction
- Section 2: The Barwon South West Region – an overview of the Region encompassing its social, economic and environmental characteristics
- Section 3: Vulnerability assessment – the projected changes to climate exposure (temperature, precipitation, sea level rise) and sensitivities (economic, social and environmental) for the Region
- Section 4: A better practice approach to adaptation – the better practice adaptation framework used to underpin the approach to the project, as well as an overview of the research into better practice criteria
- Section 5: Municipality strategic discussion – summary and outcomes of the strategic discussion workshops held with the municipalities
- Section 6: What does this all mean for the Region?
- Section 7: Partner Regional discussion – summary and outcomes of the Regional partner discussion workshop held with the project partners
- Section 8: Regional resilience roadmap – overview of next steps to progress the development of the Region’s adaptive capacity
- Section 9: Regional priority projects – summary of the potential projects that could be undertaken in Phase Two which aim to address the key risks arising from the projected changes to the Region’s climate
The modelling and mapping undertaken as part of this Project and included in the Regional report includes:
- Climate exposure (temperature, precipitation and sea level rise)
- Sensitivity (economic, social and environmental)
- Baseline maps for economic and environmental layers
- Extreme heat analysis for summer across the Region
- Sea level rise inundation map for the Great Ocean Road
- Critical infrastructure (electricity, water, roads, etc) overlays for the temperature and precipitation maps.
In conjunction with this report, there are individual municipal reports, which contain the findings and recommendations of the Project specific to each municipality engaged in this Project. The individual municipal reports are complementary to, and should be read in conjunction with, the Regional report.
Each municipal report includes a series of products which Councils can draw upon to shape their approach to building climate resilience. These products are:
- Resilience roadmap – A set of detailed actions, tailored for each Council, that can be undertaken to help build their adaptive capacity and resilience to future extreme climate events
- Health check template – to monitor and review the Council’s progress on an ongoing basis in building climate resilience
- A climate change adaptation plan template and guidance, which provides Councils with a tool to develop a detailed, tailored adaptation plan, based on the assessment of risks and vulnerabilities
- Risk assessment matrix - a pre-populated risk matrix (150 risks) for the Councils to assess risks that they face due to extreme and future climate events. This matrix can be used as a tool in a robust risk assessment process as part of the adaptation plan development process
- Data sets in GIS layers which consist of:
- Sensitivity (social, economic and environmental)
- Exposure (temperature and precipitation)
- Sea level rise
- Information data from partners
- Vulnerability dashboards (exposure and sensitivity).
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The Barwon South West Region
