Project 12.4 'Governance, planning and the effective application of emerging ecosystem service markets to secure climate change adaptation and landscape resilience in far north Queensland'

Project 12.4 'Governance, planning and the effective application of emerging ecosystem service markets to secure climate change adaptation and landscape resilience in far north Queensland'

This project will partner the region’s key stakeholders to review, trial and evaluate the most effective governance systems and planning foundations for regional and landscape scale adaptation to climate change. In particular, within the context of these governance systems and planning arrangements, it will focus on the potential application of emerging ecosystem service markets to secure landscape scale resilience for biodiversity in the face of climate change.

The key intent of the Project will be to:

  • Design/secure the most appropriate regional governance systems and planning mechanisms needed to support regional scale adaptation to climate change;
  • Design/ secure the most effective and integrated planning arrangements for regional scale adaptation for biodiversity; and
  • Guide the carbon market and other emerging ecosystem market investments towards priority biodiversity outcomes within the regional landscape.

Project objectives at a glance

  • Develop theory concerning the governance and institutional arrangements needed for regional climate change adaptation.  Outcome:  A stronger theoretical foundation for devising more appropriate governance systems and institutional arrangements.
  • Develop theory concerning the integrated and effective use of regional scale adaptation planning and ecosystem service market guidance.  Outcome:  A stronger theoretical foundation for devising more appropriate planning approaches for climate adaptation and the guidance of ecosystem service markets.
  • Test the most effective linkages between regional planning and outcome delivery via the application of emerging ecosystem service markets, including the aggregation of carbon and other ecosystem services at regional scale.  Outcome:  Knowledge developed regarding improved planning for regional climate change adaptation planning and the guidance of carbon and other ecosystem service markets.
  • In partnership with research users, devise the practical reforms required to improve in regional governance and planning systems required and the linkages needed to effectively guide carbon-based and other emerging ecosystem service markets.  Outcome:  Explicit practical reforms required in regional governance and NRM planning systems developed and trialled to effectively guide carbon-based and other emerging ecosystem service markets.

Specific objectives and intended outputs of this Project are detailed in the NERP TE Hub Multi-Year Research Plan.


Project Factsheet


Manual

Resilience and Opportunity: Regions and the Roll-out of Australia’s Greenhouse Gas Abatement Programs A Manual for Queensland’s NRM Regions 1st Edition


Theory Report

Governance, planning and the effective application of emerging ecosystem service markets to secure climate change adaptation and landscape resilience in Far North Queensland


 

Link to the Project 12.4 homepage on e-Atlas


 

Project Duration: 
1 Jul 2011 to 31 Dec 2012