WORKSHOPS
Monday 28th November, 2011
Thursday 1st December, 2011
Putting resilience thinking into practice for M&E Workshop A: Pre-conference workshop
Monday 28th November, 2011
Dealing with resilience and adaptive capacity will always be challenging as both relate to the potential to deal with future challenges and opportunities. This means that there can be no hard and fast measures of how much resilience or adaptive capacity a community, industry, or ecosystem has (or needs) because there will always be uncertainties.
This workshop explores how emerging research and ideas about resilience and adaptive capacity can be incorporated into monitoring, evaluation and reporting (MER) strategies. Existing approaches to MER already capture much of the information required to allow meaningful dialogue about resilience and adaptive capacity.
The workshop will report on recent research and latest developments in resilience thinking. It will also draw on the experiences of catchment bodies and government departments that have grappled with how to apply resilience thinking in practice.
The workshop will include the following components:
- Recent research on resilience and adaptive capacity
- Dialogue about key practical questions challenging delegates
- Examples of how research and ideas have been put into practice by catchment groups and government agencies
- Practical ways to link the measurement of resilience and adaptive capacity components to possible future challenges and opportunities
- Linking all of this to the realities of MERI processes
About your workshop leader
Dr Steven Cork
Principal
EcoInsights
Steven Cork is an ecologist, strategist, futurist and policy advisor. He was a research scientist with CSIRO for 25 years, worked as an advisor to State and Australian governments throughout much of that period, spent several years working in the Australia Government on environmental policy issues, and played a lead role in developing scenarios for how humans and the natural environment might interact over the next 50 years in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.
Strategy & planning for monitoring, evaluating & reporting on natural resources Workshop B: Post-conference workshop
Thursday 1st December, 2011
The workshop explores the aims, design and implementation of monitoring, evaluation and reporting (MER) strategies and how an MER program should be configured to support decision makers and managers of natural resources.
The workshop will draw on the recent experience in NSW with MER and the production of the first comprehensive State of the Catchments reports at the end of 2010.
An integral part of the workshop is to look to the future and, based on experience gained, to discuss future directions for an MER program.
The workshop will include the following components:
- Indicators
- Role of modelling in evaluation
- Scope of MER programs to include in output monitoring
- The importance of reporting: what product, for whom and how
- Role of "report cards" in driving further environmental improvement
About your workshop leader
Dr Klaus Koop
Director, Environment & Conservation Science
Office of Environment & Heritage, Department of
Premier and Cabinet, NSW
Klaus Koop is an environmental scientist whose career spans some 25 years in academia, development aid and public sector environment protection. Klaus is currently Director of Environment and Conservation Science in the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage where, among other things, he is responsible for leading the scientific input to the implementation of the NSW Monitoring Evaluation and Reporting Strategy.
