Risk Management: Climate Change Risk Matrix for Water

February 25th, 2009

With the involvement of water agencies, irrigators and other regional participants, the Water Planning Tools project is developing resources to help regional stakeholders plan their adaptation strategies to potential climate change impacts. One of the initial tools under development is the Climate Change Risk Management Matrix. In using a risk management approach, the tool highlights the importance of a participatory process for dealing with uncertainty in a climate risk assessment.

The primary purpose of this tool is to identify projected climate change and likely impacts, vulnerability and then develop adaptation strategies. Because it is participatory, this process offers an effective way to share knowledge of the projected effects of climate change and to encourage water users and agency staff to begin to take action. The method uses climate change projection data and information as a basis for the collaborative mapping of risks and adaptation strategies.

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Tags: climate change, CSIRO, deliberative tools, risk, uncertainty

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