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Location: Cambodia, Indonesia, Philipines, Vietnam Contact: Craig Miller Research Question: Can we develop a spatially explicit systematic process to ensure that conservation policy takes livelihoods and the realities of climate change into consideration? What did the project do?Australian research team members worked with scientists and policy makers from Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, and Vietnam to develop and evaluate a systematic process for making conservation policy that takes climate change, regional social and ecological attributes, and poverty reduction into consideration, in South East Asia (SEA). What did the project produce?The team worked with international team members to facilitate the development of a scalable, nested classification system in a GIS that incorporates biophysical attributes with socio-economic trends and then projects changes due to aspects of climate change. These activities conducted in a workshop enabled the team to propose and discuss the general implications for conservation, sustainable resource use, and livelihoods. Some SEA team members took this process back to their countries to examine the issues and opportunities in greater detail. The Australian team members continued to contribute to the ongoing process. The team presented a small portion of the research at the Copenhagen science congress, Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions (http://climatecongress.ku.dk), a precursor to the UN Conference on Climate Change. We had intended to enable the team members to present specific results for their country from their analysis at the Conference on Asia Pacific Climate Risk and Adaptation in Beijing (http://asiapacificclimate.org/index.html), however particpants in the workshop have not made as much progress as anticipated. The Indonesian contingent has expressed interest in exploring how they and CSIRO can work together in Indonesia to address climate adaptation and livelihoods associated with natural resource management. Discussions are ongoing at present. How can the project make a difference to development?Most SEA governments have identified that poverty reduction, particularly through natural resource management and agriculture is of strategic importance. Protection of natural resources from non sustainable use and the detrimental effects of climate change is critical to achieving this. Climate change and non sustainable resource use has the potential to drastically affect the resource base of the economy of these countries. We seek to enable SEA governments to make effective conservation and sustainable use policy in a systematic manner, taking livelihood issues, demographic trends, and climate change into account. Project Completion date - 30 June 2009DOWNLOAD final outcomes report for this project DOWNLOAD final (full) report for this project: Towards Regionally Relevant Biodiversity,Poverty and Climate Change Policy: A Report on the Los Banos Workshop Report - Tigum-Aganan Watershed Management Project, PART 1: Exploring vulnerability to climate change, June 2009 Report - Tigum-Aganan Watershed Management Project, PART 2: Exploring vulnerability to climate change, June 2009 Report - Synergy workshop in City of Iloilo, Philippines Report - Synopsis of Key Conservation Issues in Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam
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