Northern Resilience and Adaptive Capacity
Read the full Northern Regional Drought Risk, Resilience and Adaptive Capacity Report.
Read the Executive Summary.
As part of the project, we have published three regional reports. These provide a starting point for understanding drought impacts and risks in our regions. We would appriciate your feedback and suggestions, as we aim to ground-truth these reports over the course of the project.
Droughts occurred in the Northern region of Tasmania in 2006, 2015 and 2019. These events offer insights on the impacts to agriculture and the natural environment, and the potential resilience of communities to future droughts.
Drought resilience was determined by analysing the potential drought impact (risk) and adaptive capacity of each of the eight LGAs in the Northern region.
This map shows Meander Valley has higher adaptive capacity potential to drought, whereas George Town displays lower adaptive capacity to drought. The potential drought impact (risk) showed Flinders with higher risk rating, while City of Launceston was lower based on the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) Community Vulnerability & Resilience to Drought Index (CVRDI).