Building capacity for climate adaptation planning in protected area management: Options and challenges for World Heritage

Melbourne-Thomas, Jess, Lin, Brenda B., Hopkins, Mandy, Hill, Rosemary, Dunlop, Michael, Macgregor, Nicholas, Merson, Samuel D., Vertigan, Caitlin, Donegan, Luke, Sheppard, Marian, Meyers, Jacqui, Thomas, Linda, Visschers, Lola, McNeair, Bianca, Syme, Lance, Grant, Chrissy, Pedrocchi, Nicholas, Oakley, Patricia, Stevens, Amy, Rose, Denis, Rose, Erin, Gould, Jade, Locke, John, Maybanks, Lynda, and Ireland, Tracy (2024) Building capacity for climate adaptation planning in protected area management: Options and challenges for World Heritage. Biological Conservation, 290. 110459.

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Abstract

Response and adaptation to the impacts of climate change is a vital and increasing requirement for protected area management. On the ground managers of cultural and natural values in protected places have requested practical guidance on how to undertake climate change impact analysis, vulnerability assessment, and adaptation planning together with enhanced capacity for planning with partners, rightsholders and stakeholders. In this paper we explore how co-development and subsequent testing among World Heritage site managers, Indigenous experts and researchers, produced guidance for assessing, responding to and planning for the impacts of climate change on the diverse values of World Heritage sites in Australia. We draw on the diversity of cultural and natural heritage values associated with the terrestrial, coastal and marine environments in Australian World Heritage sites, and the broad range of institutional contexts in these sites, to highlight considerations of relevance to other protected areas (including other World Heritage sites around the world, Ramsar wetlands and marine protected areas). Our paper highlights that, for climate adaptation planning to become a normal part of management, there is a need for ongoing capacity building, including around the use of climate information to inform adaptation planning and implementation, as well as integrating Indigenous perspectives. Building capacity may involve trial and error, negotiation, sharing, sourcing and interpreting new information, and changes in expectations. It will require novel and more dynamic relationships between partners and stakeholders. Managers should include capacity building for climate adaptation planning and implementation as a specific climate adaptation task in their planning.

Item ID: 82014
Item Type: Article (Research - C1)
ISSN: 1873-2917
Keywords: Adaptation, Climate change, Cultural heritage, Indigenous, Indigenous pathways, Natural heritage, Outstanding Universal Value, Protected areas, Ramsar, Vulnerability, World Heritage
Copyright Information: © 2024 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Date Deposited: 19 Mar 2024 04:26
FoR Codes: 41 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES > 4101 Climate change impacts and adaptation > 410102 Ecological impacts of climate change and ecological adaptation @ 50%
41 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES > 4101 Climate change impacts and adaptation > 410103 Human impacts of climate change and human adaptation @ 50%
SEO Codes: 19 ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY, CLIMATE CHANGE AND NATURAL HAZARDS > 1901 Adaptation to climate change > 190101 Climate change adaptation measures (excl. ecosystem) @ 50%
19 ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY, CLIMATE CHANGE AND NATURAL HAZARDS > 1901 Adaptation to climate change > 190102 Ecosystem adaptation to climate change @ 50%
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