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Catchment Action Plan: Technical briefing Presented by:Lyndal HasselmanMelissa Schrader

1Tonight will give youAn understanding of how systems thinking will be usedAn understanding of how your input will make a differenceConfidence in the designed process

2We will have:Shared understanding of where we are going and how we will get thereConfidence that together we will work through the process and achieve positive outcomesRecognition that all input is valuable

3Catchment action Plan(101)

4What is it?Cabinet approved plan for the Lachlan CatchmentHelps to set priorities for using our limited resourcesWe implement it by working with the communities that manage our natural resources

5Why are we upgrading it?CMAs started in mid 2004First Catchment Action Plan for the Lachlan was published in 2006The world has changedRequirement in NSW State plan that all CMAs upgrade their plan by March 2013The Natural Resources Commissions role

6Why are we upgrading it?

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adaptivesocial-ecological systemssciencepartnershipscommunity values

8Social-ecological systemshumans in the landscapewe live here, we use things in the landscape for food, shelter and fibrein doing this, we change the landscapeIts a two way thing!

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Land use as a response to the social-ecological systemWhere towns are placed, on rivers, access to transport whole structure of the catchment and the community is due to the landscape9Social-ecological systemseconomic^LandscapesLivelihoodsLifestyles

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11Resiliencethe ability of the system to absorb disturbance and still retain its basic function and structure

Distance to threshold ability to absorb shockAbility to change and then change backTo change state and still function (could also lose function)

Distance to threshold absorb shockTo change and then change backTo transform and still function

The Resilience Alliance looks at resilience as the integration of humans and landscapes (the social-ecological system) and the:amount of disturbance a system can absorb and still provide the same functions;ability of the system to reorganise after a disturbance; andability of the system to build, learn and increase capacity to adaptively manage, or in other words cope with disturbances.

Two types (categories of resilience)Specified = resilience of what , to whatBUT making the system very resilient in one way may inadvertently cause it to lose resilience in other waysGeneral resilience = resilience of any/all aspects of the system to shocks (including unknown)

North Atlantic Kelp ForestsAtlantic codSea urchinsCrabsKelpOver fishing

13Sea urchins CrabsKelpNorth Atlantic Kelp Forests

14Sea urchins CrabsKelpOver fishingAtlantic cod?North Atlantic Kelp Forests

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CodKelpSea urchins

16Dont you love it when things just work?

Each of those little pieces when arranged perfectly comes together like magic.

What would happen if just one of these pieces changed?or was missing?

17So what is your role?To provide your knowledge, experience, observations of howthis landscape worksHelp us understand this landscape

We will be asking you to:ExploreConsider Inspire

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