Carbon, biodiversity and regional natural resource planning: towards high impact next generation plans
- Year: 2013
- Author: Allan Dale, James McKee, Karen Vella & Ruth Potts
- Journal Name: Australian Planner
- Journal Number: 50.4
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Published Location: United Kingdom
- ISBN: 2150-6841
- Country: Australia
Given the increased importance of adaptation debates in global climate negotiations, pressure to achieve biodiversity, food and water security through managed landscape-scale adaptation will likely increase across the globe over the coming decade. In parallel, emerging market-based, terrestrial greenhouse gas abatement programs present a real opportunity to secure such adaptation to climate change through enhanced landscape resilience. Australia has an opportunity to take advantage of such programs through regional planning aspects of its governance arrangements for NRM. This paper explores necessary reforms to Australia's regional NRM planning systems to ensure that they will be better able to direct the nation's emerging GGA programs to secure enhanced landscape adaptation.
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