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Climate Change and Scenario ModellingUsing participatory modelling techniques, explore future options and strategies to manage social-ecological systems, adapt to changing landscapes, and examine trade-offs between economic development and the conservation of nature. This research focus also examines the implications of climate change on social, economic, and natural capital. Active research programmes in climate change and scenario modelling include:
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Livelihoods and Landscapes (Collaboration with IUCN)Project team: Neil Collier Funding: IUCN, CIFOR There are substantial pressures on global forest resources including timber extraction, subsistence slash and burn agriculture, and clearing for large scale crop production such as oil palm. This project is investigating how forests can be managed for the dual purposes of conserving biodiversity and improving the well being of rural people who rely on the forests for their livelihoods. Neil is conducting scenario modelling with researchers from the IUCN (The World Conservation Union) on part of a global project examining how sustainable management and use of forests can improve the livelihoods of rural poor people. He will travel to Papua, Indonesia to conduct fieldwork and modelling during 2008. Northern Territory Government Climate Change StrategyProject team: Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Jeremy Russell-Smith, Stephen Garnett Funding: Northern Territory Department of the Chief Minister The Northern Territory Government is currently developing a comprehensive policy position on climate change. To help them they engaged Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, in collaboration with Jeremy Russell-Smith and Stephen Garnett, to develop an Issues Paper http://www.nt.gov.au/dcm/legislation/climatechange/discussion.html to bring climate change matters before the NT community. Using this document, and in response to Commonwealth Government policy being developed over the next six months, the NTG will develop position papers and government policy. |
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