Cairns Institute Impact and Engagement Seminar Series

Community Perceptions of Human-assisted Adaptation in the Great Barrier Reef

Presented by Dr Gillian Paxton

Thursday 02 June 2022 | 12.00pm - 1.00pm

Cairns D3-054 & Townsville 17-101

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^{While reducing global greenhouse gas emissions is urgently needed, it will no longer be enough to guarantee the long-term survival of the Great Barrier Reef as we know it. The Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program (RRAP) is a multi-institutional collaboration seeking to create a suite of innovative and targeted technological measures to help the Great Barrier Reef adapt and survive in a future marked by climate change.}

^{Alongside these technological innovations, the future enacted under RRAP will demand a complex set of social transitions, and RRAP includes a program of social research and engagement to ensure that technological interventions are acceptable to, and achieve outcomes for, Reef communities. This seminar outlines the first phase of the RRAP Regional Deep Dive, a qualitative social research project exploring how local Reef communities practice relationships with the Reef, contemplate its future, and consider the prospect of technologically assisted adaptation. The seminar will reflect on the values that communities enact in their relations with the Reef,  the type of future they see being cultivated through assisted adaptation, and the importance of building community knowledge into adaptation programs so that they achieve ethical, as well as pragmatic, outcomes.} 

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