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CSIRO
Bureau of Meteorology
Universities
Premier’s Science and Industry Council
Research and Development Institute
Museum
State Herbarium
A summary description of the governance arrangements is outlined in
Table D.2
in
Appendix D
.
A review
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by the Institute for Sustainable Resources (2010) was undertaken of the South Australian
Government and Red Cross activities in response to the southern Australia heatwave event that took
place from 27 January to 8 February 2009. This heatwave produced severe, extensive and prolonged
heat exposure for the community. The review describes the roles and responsibilities of different
organisations involved in emergency responses, and outlines numerous challenges and lessons learnt as
a result of that event.
16.4. Policy and regulatory barriers to successful climate change adaptation
For the purpose of this report, the definition of barriers used in the Productivity Commission’s draft report,
Barriers to Effective Climate Change Adaptation (2012)
has been applied.
A ‘barrier’ to effective climate change adaptation restricts people’s ability to identify, evaluate or manage
risks in a way that maximises community wellbeing
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. The draft report notes that the existence of a barrier
means there is the potential for resources to be reallocated in ways that made better adaptation actions
possible and in turn improve the wellbeing of the community as a whole.
In identifying policy and regulatory barriers to climate change adaptation, a range of documents have
been reviewed that were produced for the purposes of the Productivity Commission’s inquiry into
Barriers
to Effective Climate Change Adaptation
(2012). These reports include submissions from the South
Australian Government, Local Government Association, National Climate Change Adaptation Research
Facility, and Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency.
The research identified several major barriers to climate change adaptation, which occur at a broad scale
however these are not specific to the Study Area. These barriers are outlined in
Table 16.4
below.
Table 16.4: Barriers to Climate Change Adaptation
Barrier
Description
Market Failures
Conditions that prevent markets from achieving the most efficient allocation of resources.
For example, a barrier to adaptation could occur where there is insufficient or inadequate
information on climate change impacts for consumers, organisations or the private sector
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Initiative of the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, funded by the Australian Government.
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Productivity Commission (2012),
Barriers to Effective Climate Change Adaptation
–
Draft report
