Session Themes
Select one for your Abstract Submission - with a focus on action
TS1: Preparing for Change
TS2: Integration and Partnerships
TS3: Coastal, Estuarine and Marine Biodiversity; responses to a changing environment
TS4: Role of Information Technology in taking Action
TS1: Preparing for Change
Properly preparing for future changes depends on good planning. This part of the conference could include:
- Successful case studies – national and international
- Update on the recommendations of the House of Representatives Inquiry
- Planning, Policy and Politics - climate change, sea level rise and managing for population change
- Management of land title boundaries with a moving coast
- Review of State policies
- Legal and insurance responses to climate change and sea level rises in coastal areas
- Local action for change – NRM, local government and community action
- Sustainable futures – carbon sequestration, storage, CPRS/ETS, renewable energy (wave energy, etc)
- Coastal habitats as carbon sinks (seagrass and mangrove)
- Report cards: local, regional, state and national
TS2: Integration and Partnerships
With limited time and money for coastal issues, integrated actions and partnerships are critical. This part of the conference could include:
- What is happening on a state and national level
- Showcase of partnerships between governments, industry and other sectors of the community. Examples could include development of conservation parks, coastal and marine planning approaches and development of water quality improvement plans (WQIPs)
- Indigenous involvement in coastal change
- Managing coastal issues across jurisdictions – examples may cover national, state and local government or international cases of managing across national boundaries
- NRM and other government actions that link to the community or that are in partnership with community sectors
TS3: Coastal, Estuarine and Marine Biodiversity; responses to a changing environment
Climate change may exacerbate current impacts on the coast and the sea. What are we doing to protect coastal, estuarine and marine biodiversity or enabling adaptation to change? The loss of some coastal ecosystems will be of considerable cost to society. This part of the conference could consider:
- Ecosystem services
- Ecosystem responses to change & changing management approaches
- The prospects for shorebirds, threatened species and other coastal and marine life
- How can saltmarsh and mangroves habitats survive sea level rise?
- Biodiversity as a driver for decision-making
- Review/ examples of schemes to reduce marine pollution through stormwater and wastewater treatment storage and re-use
TS4: Role of Information Technology in taking Action
Understanding the changes to our coast and acting upon those changes needs data, information and analysis. This part of the conference could include:
- Use of GIS and modelling in planning for and managing change
- Use of other old, new or novel technology in monitoring, reporting and managing for change