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This paper examines the risk management process undertaken by Kogarah City Council to address climate change impacts using the tools and resources developed by ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability through its Adaptive and Resilient Communities Program. The paper focuses on the experiences, challenges and learnings of the council when working through the different stages of the program. It highlights some of the strategies and initiatives Kogarah City Council has implemented in order to achieve its main climate change adaptation goals and objectives. This paper is therefore intended as a ‘case study’ for other local governments planning to carry out a risk management process within their organisation. It is concluded that the key immediate outcome of the program for Kogarah City Council was internal capacity building that was achieved by enabling staff to collaboratively engage with each other in a structured and facilitated manner.
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This standard has since updated to AS/NZS ISO 31000: 2009.
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Tools and resources of the ARC Program (now called CCP-Adapt) can be found on ICLEI Oceania’s website www.iclei.org/oceania.
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Idris, E., Fünfgeld, H. (2011). Climate Change Risk Management for a Suburban Local Government: The Case of Kogarah, Australia. In: Otto-Zimmermann, K. (eds) Resilient Cities. Local Sustainability, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0785-6_37
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