Visualising the value of water
- Authors: Block, Jessica , Graymore, Michelle , Wallis, Anne , Vamplew, Peter , Mitchell, Bradley , O'Toole, Kevin , McRae-Williams, Pamela
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Pipes, Ponds and People: Adaptive water management p. 195-225
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A method for building community resilience to climate change in emerging coastal cities
- Authors: Smith, Timothy , Daffara, Phillip , O'Toole, Kevin , Matthews, Julie , Thomsen, Dana , Inayatullah, Sohail , Fien, John , Graymore, Michelle
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Futures Vol. 43, no. 7 (2011), p. 673-679
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- Description: Rapidly urbanising coastal locations represent prototypes of future cities. While these "sea change" locations will face a range of issues associated with rapid growth such as infrastructure provision and enhancement of social capital, anticipated environmental impacts are likely to add significant challenges. Climate change is likely to have dramatic impacts on sea change communities through diminished potable water supplies, rising sea levels, storm surges, and increased intensity of flood events - with indirect impacts on health, financial sectors, and biodiversity. Given the inherent diversity within sea change communities with regard to age, culture, and socio-economic status there are likely to be differences in ways of adapting, the ability to adapt, and the desired direction of any changes. Cognizant of the potential enormity of climate change impacts, the need for rapid responses, and the diversity within communities, this paper proposes a participatory and transformative method to work with communities in responding to climate change and variability within rapidly urbanising coastal locations. The method focuses on determining probable futures for various communities of place and interest within sea change areas and aims to build the capacity for dynamic on-going learning to achieve those futures, both within and between the communities. Through this process community members may be empowered with dynamic and future-orientated learning skills that build upon community knowledge, innovation, and resilience. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
Household water use behavior: An integrated model
- Authors: Jorgensen, Bradley , Graymore, Michelle , O'Toole, Kevin
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Environmental Management Vol. 91, no. 1 (2009), p. 227-236
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- Description: Water authorities are dealing with the challenge of ensuring that there is enough water to meet demand in the face of drought, population growth and predictions of reduced supply due to climate change. In order to develop effective household demand management programs, water managers need to understand the factors that influence household water use. Following an examination and re-analysis of current water consumption behavioral models we propose a new model for understanding household water consumption. We argue that trust plays a role in household water consumption, since people will not save water if they feel others are not minimizing their water use (inter-personal trust). Furthermore, people are less likely to save water if they do not trust the water authority (institutional trust). This paper proposes that to fully understand the factors involved in determining household water use the impact of trust on water consumption needs investigation.