This document discusses resilience challenges for five key landscapes in the North East region of Australia: urban centres, lifestyle, agricultural productivity, forests, and alpine areas. For each landscape, it identifies challenges related to issues like land use planning, population changes, climate variability, fire management, and pest impacts. It asks readers to comment on an online forum if any resilience challenges are missing from the list.

1. Join the resilience discussion…

2. Identity (recap)
A reminder of the 5 identified key landscapes:
oUrban Centres
oLifestyle
oAgricultural Productivity
oForests
oAlpine

3. Resilience
At this point in the renewal of the North East RCS we are
focussing on key resilience challenges for the North East.
Resilience issues are those that are significant enough that
changing them or their general condition would threaten
the identity or character of the landscape.
Photo: Craig Sillitoe – The Age 4/3/2012

4. Resilience
How does resilience thinking work?
Resilience is a measure of a landscape systems capacity to
cope with change while retaining essentially the same
structure and function.

5. Resilience
Managing for resilience involves promoting diversity
and flexibility in landscape systems and building the
capacity to adapt and change.

6. Resilience - Urban Centres
Challenges:
o Density and land use
planning for ‘managed
growth’
o Aligning liveability, green
spaces and waterway
functions

7. Resilience - Lifestyle
Challenges:
o Land use planning for
dynamic ‘community’
o Corridor opportunities
between patches and
along waterways, manage
pest plants and animals

8. Resilience - Agricultural Productivity
Challenges:
o Ageing population with
new managers coming
through
o A need for new
land/people models that
deal with viability of
land/soil resources,
habitat fragmentation and
water cycle function

9. Resilience - Forests
Challenges:
o Response to climate
variability
o Fire management for
vegetation function and
associated water yield

10. Resilience - Alpine
Challenges:
o Response to climate
variability
o Impacts on wetlands,
emerging pest plant and
animal challenges and
water yield implications

11. Resilience
Forum Question 2
Have we identified all the resilience challenges for
the landscapes of the North East? What, if any,
challenges have we missed?
This question can be discussed in the forum section of www.yoursaynecma.com.au