Sustainable Reconstruction

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Sustainable Reconstruction

• Chair Allen Kearns
• Rapporteur -Colin Woodroffe

• Participants included engineers,
  geologists,development consultants, coastal
  geomorphologists, environmental scientists and
  ecologists (marine, agricultural, forestry, soils)

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Local consequences
Built infrastructure
Dynamics of PLACE, PEOPLE and PRODUCTION
Social/cultural infrastructures
Natural systems
Global change
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Building resilience

• Natural variability
• Flooding, Storm surge, volcano/earthquake
• How resilient were the systems?
• Reefs bleached, mangroves cleared. Social systems
  (poverty)
• Building codes and practices
• Roads realigned (bridges) set-back?
• Education (risk awareness),
• Sustainable agriculture/aquaculture
• Integrated coastal zone management
• Capacity building must involve local community

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Current knowledge and capacity

• Australia leads the world in tropical coastal and
  marine science and management
• Our knowledge of many of the coasts of the Indian
  Ocean is poor, fragmented
• Outstanding emergency and short-term response and
  rehabilitation
• Niche for Australian RD is not yet clear within
  Australian or Indonesian government

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Gaps in knowledge

• Feedback from ACIAR needs to be disseminated
  18-month assessment
• Knowledge about remaining built infrastructure
  not widely available
• Knowledge about remaining social and natural
  infrastructure not available -

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• How might Australia contribute?
• Identify a region and sector for focus
• Integrated coastal zone management
• Uni-Uni, Institution-Agency links
• Familiarity with these tropical coasts
• Building codes and practices
• Bring longer-term perspective (RD)
• Disaster reduction, preparedness

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Factors affecting Built Infrastructure

• Knowledge and information
• Transport
• Water
• Capital
• Materials
• Energy
• Air
• Wastes

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Factors affecting Social Infrastructure

• Governance and Institutions
• Education
• Planning design and Engineering
• NRM, Law and Policy
• Economy and Commerce
• Health Services
• Economic and Ecological History
• Cultural Diversity

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Factors affecting Ecological Infrastructure

• Regional climate and Geomorphology
• Regional Biodiversity
• Natural Resources
• Land Use History
• Land and Water Management
• Cultural and Spiritual Pathways

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Landscape pattern drivers
Global climate
Time
Local climate
Disturbances
Topography
Ecosystem patterns
Soil resources
Communities
Biota
Lithology
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Urbanising Landscape drivers
Global markets
Time
Resource demand
Regional economy
Development pathway
Urban Ecosystems
Land and water access
Land tenure
Communities
Knowledge systems
Landscape attributes
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• How might Australia contribute?
• Uni-Uni, Institution-Agency links
• Familiarity with these tropical coatal
  environments
• Bring longer-term perspective (RD)
• Disaster reduction, preparedness