Research Proposals

The Minister for Climate Change Senator Penny Wong and Attorney General Robert McClelland announced the release of the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Plan (NARP) for Emergency Management, and the launch of a research grants program to address the priorities identified by the Plan on the 9th October 2009.

Funds of up to $2 million for the research were made available through the Department of Climate Change Adaptation Research Grants Program.

The process for allocating funds was undertaken two stages: first, an open call for Expressions of Interest (EOI), and second, invitations to shortlisted applicants to prepare full proposals. The call for expressions of interest  attracted 103 applicants of which 11 were selected to develop full proposals. 

The Network assisted in the preparation of proposals by applicants but was not involved in the preselection or final selection process of those applicants receiving funding.

The NCCARF funded Emergency Management Projects are:

  1. A spatial vulnerability analysis of urban populations to extreme heat events in Australian capital cities.
    Principal Investigator: Dr Margaret Loughnan (Monash University)
  2. Recovery from disaster experience: its effect on perceptions of climate change risk and on adaptive behaviours to prevent, prepare, and respond to future climate contingencies.
    Principal Investigator: Dr Helen Boon (James Cook University)
  3. Harnessing private sector logistics for emergency food and water supplies in flood prone areas.
    Principal Investigator: Dr Leo Dobes (Australian National University)
  4. Public understandings, risk perceptions, and responses to climate change and associated natural disasters.
    Principal Investigator: Prof Joseph Reser (Griffith University)
  5. Adaptation of the built environment to climate change induced increased intensity of natural hazards.
    Principal Investigator: Dr David King (James Cook University)
  6. Agent based simulation framework for improved understanding and enhancement of community and organisational resilience to extreme events (phase 1).
    Principal Investigator: Prof Lin Padgham (RMIT University)

Collaboration & spin offs

  • Joint project proposal NHMRC with the Health Adaption Research Network;
  • Joint exteme heat workshop with Health Adaption Research Network at NCCARF Conference; 
  • Joint research/papers (Victorian Bushfires) with Social Adaption Research Network (Saffron O’Neill); 
  • Discussions with Settlement Adaption Research Network, and Health Adaption Research Network re mental health; 
  • Possible joint workshop with Terrestial Biodiversity Adaption Research Network;
  • Joint Project with Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research (VCCCAR)
    VCCCAR - EMN Framing Project PDF
  • Spin offs – eg with ANU Law School re Solomon Islands Adaptation issues, and with ANU and University of Canberra   via the Bushfire CRC project on policy mainstreaming.