Optimal adaptation to climate change impacts

Researchers from Economics, Health Economics and Management are monitoring and measuring the impacts of climate change in different domains including health and wellbeing, agriculture and food security, biodiversity and natural resources, with many researchers working in the Asia Pacific region.

Strong understanding of these impacts, and the range of different climate change mitigation and adaptation responses, is critical to developing effective, efficient, and equitable solutions.

Projects

Climate change adaptation: Governance, finance and implementation

Monash Business School, Department of Banking and Finance, Pacific Action for Climate Transitions, Monash Law School, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century, and Value Advisory Partners
Building and sharing knowledge and experience of implementing climate change adaptation.
The geopolitics of food security

Critical Reorientations of Organisation and Society, Green Lab, and the University of Melbourne
Global food security is under threat. Global political instability is a key cause, along with increasingly unpredictable catastrophic weather events and the current techno-capitalist system. So how can we avoid or mitigate food crises?
The impact of climate change on extension and adoption

Param Silvapulle, Natalia Bailey, Anke Leroux, Mervyn Silvapulle and Sisira Jayasuriya
This ORM resource kit explores the impacts of extreme temperatures on historic wheat yields in Northwest Victoria and then converts this into yield predictions under 10 climate change scenarios.
Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change: A Comparative Study of Governance Processes in Australia, China, and the United States

Dr Michael Spencer, Green Lab Associate
This comparative study of governance processes for climate change adaptation highlights that, in contrast to climate change mitigation (greenhouse gas reduction), adaptation calls for the transformation of core governance structures, tools and resources.
Are we thinking about water conservation all wrong?

A/Prof Anke Leroux, Department of Economics
Building climate resilience through agroecology

A/Prof Jagjit Plahe
Focusing on the role that agroecology plays in supporting the development and scaling of climate-smart and climate-resilient agriculture and food systems.
Coastal dynamics and adaptation to uncertain sea level rise: Optimal portfolios for salt marsh migration

A/Prof Anke Leroux, Department of Economics
Fire to flourish

Centre for Health Economics
Identifying the impacts of the Black Saturday bushfires on the social, health and economic wellbeing of Victorian communities.
How climate change could threaten Victoria’s wheat crops

A/Prof Anke Leroux, Department of Economics
Improving food security in the Northern Uplands of Lao PDR

A/Prof Paulo Santos, Department of Economics, and Stefan Meyer
Exploring drivers for food insecurity and identifying interventions to improve food security for vulnerable households.
Modeling time varying risk of natural resource assets: Implications of climate change

A/Prof Anke Leroux, Department of Economics
Optimal investment in ecological rehabilitation under climate change

A/Prof Anke Leroux, Department of Economics
Revitalising informal settlements and their environments

Centre for Health Economics
Co-designing location-specific solutions integrating green infrastructure, such as constructed wetlands, to strengthen the whole-of-life water and sanitation cycle.

Optimal adaptation to climate change impacts

Projects

Living With 2°C Plus – The climate change adaptation challenge

Climate change adaptation: Governance, finance and implementation

The geopolitics of food security

The impact of climate change on extension and adoption

Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change: A Comparative Study of Governance Processes in Australia, China, and the United States

Are we thinking about water conservation all wrong?

Building climate resilience through agroecology

Coastal dynamics and adaptation to uncertain sea level rise: Optimal portfolios for salt marsh migration

Fire to flourish

How climate change could threaten Victoria’s wheat crops

Improving food security in the Northern Uplands of Lao PDR

Modeling time varying risk of natural resource assets: Implications of climate change

Optimal investment in ecological rehabilitation under climate change

Revitalising informal settlements and their environments