Sandpit to Seed
The TNQ Drought Hub is excited to be working with James Cook University researchers to help them move their research ideas that could improve agricultural adaption, sustainability and resilience towar...
The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest living structure and an ecosystem of significant aesthetic, cultural, economic and ecological value. However, warming oceans are causing more frequent and serious bleaching events, and it is becoming evident that emissions reduction will not be enough to guarantee its survival. The Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program (RRAP) is a multi-institutional consortium of partners working together on designing and implementing various small, medium and large scale interventions to sustain critical functions and values for the Great Barrier Reef.
A fundamental principle of RRAP is to work collaboratively with Great Barrier Reef Traditional Owners, and engage different stakeholders, community groups and interests in the co-design, deployment and evaluation of proposed interventions or technologies. The Cairns Institute at James Cook University is playing a critical role in the Stakeholder and Traditional Engagement sub-program which will implement multiple research methods to ensure that decisions about interventions are socially and culturally responsible and legitimate to stakeholders, rights-holders, managers and the public.
Distinguished Professor Stewart Lockie and the team at The Cairns Institute will lead the Social Licence and Impact Monitoring component of the sub-program, which will involve ongoing regional ‘deep-dive’ discussions with Reef stakeholders, surveys of public attitudes towards reef restoration, and a social, cultural and economic impact assessment to identify how the risks, opportunities and benefits of reef restoration are distributed across Reef communities and stakeholders.
Featured photograph by Gaby Stein (Pixabay)
The TNQ Drought Hub is excited to be working with James Cook University researchers to help them move their research ideas that could improve agricultural adaption, sustainability and resilience towar...
The TNQ Drought Hub recently hosted the National Soils Advocate, the Honourable Penelope Wensley AC for a whirlwind 2-day field trip visiting numerous soils restoration and rehabilitation sites to lea...
On 1 August, The Cairns Institute hosted a small, informal symposium for HDR students working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Far North Queensland. It brought together Indigenous...
The Cairns Institute Fellow Dr Kearrin Sims coordinates the JCU Research Ethical Development Symposium, now in its second year. It will be held 27-29 September at The Cairns Institute. This year will ...
The Developing Northern Australia Conference returned to Darwin this year in 2023. In 2021, the conference converted to an online event an hour before the program was due to begin due to a sudden NT C...
The Cairns Institute will host an informal symposium for HDR students working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Far North Queensland. This symposium will explore if and how post-gr...
TNQ Drought Hub’s Professor Allan Dale, Doctor Jane Oorschot and Ms Kara Worth were invited to speak at the Science to Practice Forum and share their experience on innovative tools and practices...
Congratulations to the TNQ Drought Hub drought resilience scholarship recipients. The hub recently offered scholarship opportunities to JCU students who were interested in undertaking an Honours or Ma...
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