Helen Scott- MSSc
- PhD Student at RMIT University
Helen Scott
- MSSc
- PhD Student at RMIT University
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Introduction
Helen Scott is a sustainability and climate change professional. She assists organisations, including local governments and the private sector, to understand their sustainability and climate change impacts and vulnerabilities, and to integrate sustainability into core organisational processes.
Helen has commenced a PhD, investigating how M&E can improve climate adaptation planning and decision-making for local governments.
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August 2014 - April 2015
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Publications (17)
Local governments are at the forefront of climate change adaptation planning. Although there is significant research on adaptation planning processes, there is scant empirical evidence of how local governments are completing the adaptation planning cycle by monitoring or evaluating their efforts. This leads to a fundamental lack of understanding ab...
This paper explores the adaptive capacity of the Australian port workforce and its preparedness to manage the likely impact of climatic shifts and extreme weather events. Qualitative interviews and focus groups were conducted across three case-ports in which a wide range of adaptive capacity elements, including systems and processes, skills and kno...
The National Strategy for Disaster Resilience (NSDR) recognises that the strength of partnerships and networks in the non-government and community sector are fundamental for enhancing disaster resilience (COAG 2011). Southern Grampians Glenelg Primary Care Partnership (SGGPCP), in collaboration with RMIT University, therefore sought to examine how...
In the post Paris climate policy context, there is an imperative to effectively monitor and evaluate progress across a range of scales in responding to climate change. In particular the focus on how well we are tracking adaptation progress has been identified as a key challenge (Christiansen, L. et al 2016; Ford et al 2015). While this is particula...
This report summarises a three year (2016-2018) project that sought to progress climate change adaptation in natural resource management (NRM). NRM faces a number of challenges in adaptation planning: decision-making under conditions of uncertainty; complex, dynamic and interlinked social and ecological systems; contestations around what and whose...
Governments at varying levels have invested funds in climate modelling, impact, risk and vulnerability assessments, and proactive planning for future climate conditions. Local governments have been very active in this space, as climate change adaptation is recognised to be particularly context specific. In Australia, many local governments have dev...
As the likelihood of extreme weather events increases under a changing climate, organisations tasked with disaster risk reduction and emergency management are exploring new approaches to help communities recover from these events. Community-directed initiatives place control back with those who are most affected. However, implementing such initiati...
This guide suggests that local governments have a significant role to play in helping business to be more socially and environmentally responsible, and that a well-conceived corporate responsibility program for their jurisdictions can lead to better relationships with their business community, as well as improved efficiencies, environmental and soc...
Climate change adaptation is highly context specific, so generic adaptation actions cannot be adopted without appropriate site-specific investigation. For this reason, this research recommends port authorities undertake a location-specific climate risk assessment, building on the AS/NZS ISO 31000 Risk Management standard. This guidance document dis...
More than half the world’s population lives in urban areas and urbanisation trends are growing, with Asian cities at the heart of urban growth. Cities play an important role in the climate change arena, both as significant contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, and also centres of innovative activity for reducing emissions. However, cities are p...
More than half the world’s population lives in urban areas and urbanisation trends are growing,
with Asian cities at the heart of urban growth. Cities play an important role in the climate change
arena, both as significant contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, and also centres of innovative
activity for reducing emissions. However, cities are p...
Questions
Questions (2)
Robert Stake (2005) makes the point that "a case is a noun, a thing, an entity; it is seldom a verb, a participle, a functioning" (p4). I am researching a process (monitoring and evaluation) in different organisations (what Stake may refer to as a function). Can the process of monitoring and evaluation be defined as the 'case' for the purposes of conducting case study research? Or is it more appropriate for me to define the organisational entity (or team within the entity) as the case?
Literature over the last 15 years discusses the changing nature of corporate responsibility (CR), and the role that public policy of national governments can play in shaping / enabling CR. However, I am keen to learn more about the role that local governments (or municipal governments) can play. Can anyone point me to recent literature about this?
