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Community deliberations in Fremantle
By Laura Stocker, Gary Burke and Janette Hartz Karp
Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute
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Koora. Ye yey. Boorda. Nidja Nyungar budjar
noonook nyinning
Yesterday, today
and tomorrow we
are sitting in
Nyungar Country.
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Making Space for the Sea
 24 July 2009, ASDI and CUSP hosted a free public
forum on the topic of climate change adaptation for
coastal Fremantle
 Aimed to engage scientists, governance and
community in deep deliberation about the future of
coastal Fremantle and to develop adaptive strategies in
response to climate change impacts
 Little action/research of this sort – mostly risk-based
 Attended by 150 residents, LG officers and councillors,
state government officers and other stakeholders
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Workshop: morning speakers
 Aimed to enable participants to gain a solid
understanding of science and governance issues
 Indigenous: Greg Nannup
 Science: Glen Cook (BoM), John Ruprecht (DoW),
Chari Pattiaratchi (UWA)
 Governance: Adele Carles (State Member for
Fremantle), Charles Johnson (DoP), Jon Strachan,
(Fremantle City Council), Laura Stocker (CUSP)
 Deliberations about issues and questions
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Workshop: afternoon
 Participants in groups of 6 around tables with an A1
physical map of Fremantle and a computer loaded
with Google Earth
 With help from facilitators, groups chose and
discussed 5 locations in coastal Fremantle
 In each location they deliberated on
 Their values and uses for that place (attributes)
 Their concerns about the impacts of climate change
 Their ideas for adaptive strategies and actions
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Results
 The views of each groups were place-marked in Google
Earth during the course of the deliberations and saved
in kmz files
 Results were collected at the end of the afternoon in a
common computer and discussed
 At a later date, the data for all locations were pooled
into a single kmz file
 Kmz file mounted on CUSP website and publicly
available.
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Lessons learnt and future work
 Begin with deliberations about attributes to get
participants talking early
 Sort problems with saving complex kmz files
 Incorporate basic principles into future CSIRO Coastal
Governance action-research workshops
 Use animation to enhance portability of science – I
need you!
 A big operation! Thanks to IT, volunteers, RA and
coauthors
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