{"id":35,"date":"2014-07-09T10:35:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T10:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/r4d.local:8080\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2015-06-12T11:48:04","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T01:48:04","slug":"climate-change-and-ecological-assets-in-the-south-east-asia-region","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/r4da\/projects\/scoping-projects\/climate-change-and-ecological-assets-in-the-south-east-asia-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change and ecological assets in the South East Asia region"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-caption alignright nba-caption-filter transcript__wrapper\"><div class=\"transcript__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-275\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/r4da\/files\/2014\/10\/CCEA_southeastasia.jpg\" alt=\"Rice field in South East Asia\" width=\"180\" height=\"160\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"transcript__info\"><div class=\"transcript__caption\"><div class=\"transcript__caption-text\"><p>Rice field in South East Asia<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Can we develop a spatially explicit systematic process to ensure that conservation policy takes livelihoods and the realities of climate change into consideration?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#do\">What did the project do?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#produce\">What did the project produce?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#difference\">How can the project make a difference to development?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#pubs\">Publications<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a id=\"do\"><\/a>What did the project do?<\/h2>\n<p>Australian research team members worked with scientists and policy makers from Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, and Vietnam to develop and evaluate a systematic process for making conservation policy that takes climate change, regional social and ecological attributes, and poverty reduction into consideration, in South East Asia (SEA).<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"produce\"><\/a>What did the project produce?<\/h2>\n<p>The team worked with international team members to facilitate the development of a scalable, nested classification system in a GIS that incorporates biophysical attributes with socio-economic trends and then projects changes due to aspects of climate change.\u00a0 These activities, conducted in a workshop, enabled the team to propose and discuss the general implications for conservation, sustainable resource use, and livelihoods.<\/p>\n<p>Some SEA team members took this process back to their countries to examine the issues and opportunities in greater detail.\u00a0 The Australian team members continued to contribute to the ongoing process.\u00a0\u00a0 The team presented a small portion of the research at the Copenhagen science congress, <em>Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/climatecongress.ku.dk\/\">http:\/\/climatecongress.ku.dk<\/a>), a precursor to the <em>UN Conference on Climate Change<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"difference\"><\/a>How can\u00a0the project\u00a0make a difference to development?<\/h2>\n<p>Most SEA governments have identified that poverty reduction, particularly through natural resource management and agriculture is of strategic importance.\u00a0 Protection of natural resources from non-sustainable use and the detrimental effects of climate change is critical to achieving this.\u00a0 Climate change and non-sustainable resource use has the potential to drastically affect the resource base of the economy of these countries.\u00a0 We seek to enable SEA governments to make effective conservation and sustainable use policy in a systematic manner, taking livelihood issues, demographic trends, and climate change into account.<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"pubs\"><\/a>Publications<\/h2>\n<p>Booth, T. H. &amp; Jovanovic, T. &amp; Son Ho, N. &amp; Miller, C. (2012)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007%2Fs10584-012-0568-4?LI=true\"><strong>A systematic regional approach for climate change adaptation to protect biodiversity<\/strong>.<\/a>\u00a0<em>Climatic Change\u00a0<\/em>12pp. DOI 10.1007\/s10584-012-0568-4.<\/p>\n<p>Miller, C. et al (2009)\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/publications.csiro.au\/rpr\/pub?list=SEA&amp;pid=csiro:EP092096&amp;sb=RECENT&amp;expert=false&amp;n=1&amp;rpp=25&amp;page=1&amp;tr=1&amp;q=cambodia%2C%20indonesia%20philippines&amp;dr=all\">Towards Regionally Relevant Biodiversity,Poverty and Climate Change Policy: A Report on the Los Banos Workshop<\/a>,<\/em> A report produced for CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship. Brisbane. Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Miller, C., Alexander, K.S. Jovanovic, T. (2009) Tigum-Aganan Watershed Management Project.<br>\nA report in two parts prepared for the CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/publications.csiro.au\/rpr\/pub?list=SEA&amp;pid=csiro:EP092137&amp;sb=RECENT&amp;expert=false&amp;n=2&amp;rpp=25&amp;page=1&amp;tr=5&amp;q=Tigum-Aganan%20Watershed%20&amp;dr=all\">PART 1: <em>Exploring vulnerability to climate change<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/publications.csiro.au\/rpr\/pub?list=SEA&amp;pid=csiro:EP092454&amp;sb=RECENT&amp;expert=false&amp;n=3&amp;rpp=25&amp;page=1&amp;tr=5&amp;q=Tigum-Aganan%20Watershed%20&amp;dr=all\">PART 2: <em>Developing a Water Needs Index<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can we develop a spatially explicit systematic process to ensure that conservation policy takes livelihoods and the realities of climate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"parent":31,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nba-redirect":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/r4da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/r4da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/r4da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/r4da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/r4da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/r4da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/r4da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions\/454"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/r4da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.csiro.au\/r4da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}