Making Space for the Sea: Adapting to Climate Change in Fremantle
Introduction
On Friday 24 July 2009, the Australian Sustainable Development Institute and the Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute hosted t a free public climate change adaptation workshop designed to promote community input to the climate change adaptation planning process for Fremantle. In the morning we heard presentations from key speakers and in the afternoon we used Google Earth maps as a basis for deliberating in small groups on: the coastal places and attributes we value; the concerns we have for these places in the face of climate change impacts; and the possible actions we could take to mitigate or adapt to impacts. Download flyer [.pdf - 1.01MB]
Presentations
Please view the presentations here.
Coastal Development - Adele Carles Presentation [.pdf - 1.68MB]
Fremantle Climate Change Adaptation Workshop - Charles Johnson [.pdf - 474kb]
Climate Change in Southwest WA - Glenn Cook [.ppt - 1.13MB]
The Role of the City of Fremantle in Adapting to Climate Change Jon Strachan [.ppt - 1.19MB]
Coastal adaptation to climate change: sustainability and good practice - Laura Stocker [.pdf - 2.64MB]
Climate change impacts on water resources in Western Australia - John Ruprecht [.pdf - 1.43MB]
Results
View results of the Fremantle Climate Change Adaptation Workshop here. You will need to download the free version of Google Earth 5 to your computer in order to open this file.
Once you have loaded the results file you can explore the results by clicking the thumbtack place marks. These contain the compiled results of all the groups' deliberations. The yellow thumbtacks contain the information about the attributes of the places that people value. The red thumbtacks contain the information about the concerns that people hold for these places in the face of climate change impacts. The green thumbtacks contain the information about the strategies and actions we could adopt to mitigate or adapt to these impacts.
