Aim: Two related projects aimed to address climate change impacts on coastal communities in New Zealand, providing information, capability and tools to enable Māori to envisage economically sustainable adaptation strategies that would enhance and restore Māori cultural relationships to the coast, and develop Transition Action Plans to aid in the implementation of preferred Adaptation Strategies.
Success stories
Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research underpins much transformational change. Below are brief case examples from the Oceania region and beyond. Contact us if you have a success story to share.
For our workshop on success stories and additional examples, see: https://nitro-oceania.net/activities/working-groups/archived-working-groups/impact-narratives-working-group/june-2020-workshop/
Achieving sustainable fisheries
Aim: To find robust alternative ecosystem-based management strategies to meet environmental, economic and social objectives for the Australian southern and eastern scalefish and shark fishery.
Biofuels: benefits, sustainability, opportunities for Australia
Aim: 1) to provide credible quantification of benefits, sustainability impacts and opportunities of biofuels, 2) to assess a range of emerging technology options, and 3) to provide reliable knowledge on which industry and government could base their decisions.
Improved Indonesian rural livestock services
Aim: To examine the effectiveness of decentralised livestock services in the eastern regions of Indonesia and to use the results as the basis for national policy and programs.
Reducing air pollution in Indonesia
Aim: To provide scientific evidence about health impacts caused by air pollution and to develop a first-stage “academic draft” for a provincial regulation on air pollution reduction.
Balancing medical tourism and improved public health in Thailand
Aim: “Medical tourism” in Thailand generates substantial revenue from foreign patients and is promoted by the private health sector with political support from the government. Significant concerns arise, however, about competing demands on health workers and other resources leading to inadequate public health provision for the Thai population. A working group was established to find an appropriate balance between private and public demands on health resources and how the private and public health sectors can collaborate to improve the health of the Thai population.
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