Mr Viktor Brenners1
1Dept Of Envi. Land, Water & Planning (victoria), East Melbourne, Australia
Abstract
Viktor has more than 25 years’ experience in the public and private sectors (local and international), specialising in water resource management issues, including water cycle management, floodplain management, service auditing, capacity building, strategy and policy development. Viktor currently works for the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning in Victoria.
Biography
The Future Coasts program was a 4 year program established in 2008 to assess the vulnerability of Victoria’s coastline to coastal hazards (inundation and erosion) under a changing climate and develop strategies to help communities and industry respond and adapt.
One of the Future Coasts assessment themes was to undertake 4 pilots coastal hazard assessments (CHAs) along different types of coast (at Port Fairy, Bellarine Peninsula-Corio Bay, Western Port, and Gippsland Lakes/90 Mile Beach) that provided a good representation of the Victorian coastline, and as such, the methods used in the CHAs could be applied to future assessments in other coastal locations. The learnings from the 4 pilot CHAs were aggregated for the next generation of CHA projects currently in the development or early implementation stage.
This paper will provide an overview of the similarities and differences in the development and outcomes of the 4 pilot CHAs, what lessons were learnt and how these learnings were aggregated and applied to the next generation of CHAs. This will include looking at technical issues, such as the complex interactions between coastal flooding and other coastal processes, as well as socio-economic issues raised by communities regarding the sensitivities of how and when the information should be used.