A5016190643- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Risk Perception and Management
- Policy Transfer and Learning
- Public Policy and Administration Research
- Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
- Open Education and E-Learning
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Climate Change and Geoengineering
- Community Development and Social Impact
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Geography Education and Pedagogy
- Global Health and Surgery
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
University of Amsterdam
2023-2025
University College Cork
2022
Flinders University
2015-2021
Griffith University
2013-2015
Imperial College London
2009
Major disasters, such as bushfires or floods, place significant stress on scarce public resources. Climate change is likely to exacerbate this stress. An integrated approach disaster risk management (DRM) and climate adaptation (CCA) could reduce the by encouraging more efficient use of pooled resources expertise. A comparative analysis three extreme climate-related events that occurred in Australia between 2009 2011 indicated a strategy improve interagency communication collaboration would...
This paper presents a comparative analysis of the use climate science for adaptation policy in Queensland, Australia and UK. We examine players’ perceptions alongside prevailing political influences on evidence-based making. In mandate has been weakened by partisan politics so that acceptability evidence is foremost concern makers. UK, enshrined Climate Change Act (2008), yet here too forces have sought to limit acceptable Both cases reveal normative tensions interpretation science,...
Abstract The quantity and complexity of scientific technological information provided to policymakers have been on the rise for decades. Yet little is known about how provide science advice legislatures, even though widely acknowledged as valuable decision-making in many policy domains. We asked academics, advisers, from both developed developing nations identify, review refine, then rank most pressing research questions legislative (LSA). Experts generally agree that state evidence poor,...
Scientific warnings about impending climate disaster and experts' advocacy for more better science have been largely unsuccessful advancing evidence-based policy in Australia. Continuing expectations to the contrary stem from a reliance on supposed ability of prime political understandings change. This paper shows how scientists undermine this 'deficit model' ideal by conflating types uses evidence expertise policymaking. These tactics are unconvincing conservative opponents, whom is far...
This paper provides a report of climate risk management for the city Brisbane between 1976 and 2011. Using evidence presented by Commission Inquiry established to investigate extreme flooding events across Queensland in 2010–2011, this describes City Council's ongoing attempts derive 'Q100' flood metric as means determine urban planning policy. The demonstrates how normative decisions that underpinned derivation Q100 which sought maximise development River floodplain were direct conflict...
This paper examines the roles for emergency and disaster risk management plans as policy artefacts that guide centralised governance networks. Past scholarship has been sceptical of instrumental worth these informing elaborating arrangements. Some suspect such are purely symbolic devices, mere 'fantasy documents'. role South Australia's state plan during Black Summer bushfires 2019–2020. The study provides confirmation utility central government, while also providing evidence some suggested...
This paper describes the views of participants in UK’s 2012 Climate Change Risk Assessment, to provide insights into development and use scientific evidence for complex social-ecological policy problems like climate adaptation. Interviews confirm that ‘linear-rationalist’ prescriptions commonly used ex-ante appraisal science facilitate processes politicisation, providing a façade legitimacy behind which inevitable normative decisions required during can be safely made political ends. The...
Evidence-based decision-making has been a focus of academic scholarship and debate for many decades. The advent global, complex problems like climate change, however, focused the efforts broader pool on this endeavor than ever before. “linear model” expertise, despite obvious problems, continues to be touchstone policy practitioners as well understandings evidence development use. Knowledge co-production, by contrast, is increasingly proposed both antithesis solution linear model's...
Abstract This paper presents a comparative analysis of catchment management dams in Cork, Ireland and Brisbane, Australia to demonstrate how interactions between municipal government expert advisors for public infrastructure administration can constrain community climate adaptation. The highlights neoliberal economic rationalism appropriate value choice under the guise technocratic expertise. Experts are often considered responsible agents effective infrastructure, even when ostensibly...
Path dependence has become a multi-disciplinary concept, employed across various literatures to explain why the past matters for decision-making. Debate within 'new institutionalist' scholarship provided detailed critique of term over several decades. Some scholars argue that it is hampered by poor conceptual clarity and highlight its limitations in explaining institutional reform. Yet, this paper demonstrates how neglecting antecedent conditions associated decision pathways particularly...
In recent decades, the label of Climate Denier has become an increasingly popular ad hominem device for climate change communications. Yet, what constitutes denial evolved considerably from its original ascription those who deny physical science anthropogenic global warming. This paper unpacks multiple contemporary meanings to examine whether this moniker can correlate with rational action (i.e. principled logically derived reliable knowledge), and how rationality be deployed when pursuing...
Risk-based decision-making is widely considered to be the best means of presenting science climate change and for developing evidence policymaking. This paper examines some justifications provided by decision scientists their preferred approach, argues that, although risk-based approaches are indeed analytically instrumentally helpful, they may not always provide most politically appropriate framework resolving politics evidence-based Decision still promote under erroneous ideals...
Risk-based decision-making is widely considered to be the best means of presenting science climate change and for developing evidence policymaking. This paper examines some justifications provided by decision scientists their preferred approach, argues that, although risk-based approaches are indeed analytically instrumentally helpful, they may not always provide most politically appropriate framework resolving politics evidence-based Decision still promote under erroneous ideals...