Contribute to a drought-ready northern region

Share your feedback on the draft Regional Drought Resilience Plan for Northern Tasmania

As part of the Northern Tasmanian Regional Drought Resilience Plan, a guiding vision supported by five themes, a series of goals and supporting action areas has been developed. These have been shaped by conversations with communities, organisations and individuals across our region. Review and share your feedback on the vision, goals and action areas by completing our survey.

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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. Drought resilience was determined by analysing the potential drought impact (risk) and adaptive capacity of each of the eight LGAs in the Northern region.

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.

The insights from this report has helped us in understanding areas of community risk, vulnerabilities and strengths.

Your drought resilience ideas

Feedback on Data Report

Provide feedback on the regional data reports, helping us ground-truth the drought resilience index and the ranking of the LGAs.

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Regional Drought Resilience - Host a Conversation

Tips for hosting a Community Conversation

Choose a time and comfortable location where there will be minimal disruptions – it could be at someone’s home, work, in a community space, or online.

Expect the discussion to take 1.5 hours, depending on the size of the group.

Develop an invitation list (1 to 6 people is ideal - and we suggest no more than 15 in one sitting) and share a direct link to the Drought Ready Tasmania website so participants can read the Drought Risk, Resilience and Adaptive Capacity Report relevant to their area. (If they can’t read the report before the meeting, as the host you can refer them to the relevant parts of the report during the conversation).

No doubt there will be lots of ideas in response to some questions – but limit the number that be can provided - work to prioritise key points. Ask, What is most important?

Enjoy the conversation!

The definition of Drought Resilience:

“Drought resilience is the ability to adapt, reorganise or transform in response to changing temperature, increasing variability and scarcity of rainfall and changed seasonality of rainfall, for improved economic, environmental and social wellbeing.” Future Drought Fund, Drought Resilience Funding Plan 2020-2024.

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