Coastal environments are facing considerable climate induced change. There is broad acceptance that a warming climate will bring rising sea levels, flooding in low lying areas and potentially more intense storm events. These predictions have profound implications for coastal planners and managers and for the populations who reside by the coast who are reliant its resources. Predictions for Indonesia suggest there will be significant losses of coastline, including thousands of islands and associated marine resources. Much of Indonesia's population, industry, infrastructure and agricultural lands are situated in low lying areas. A rise in sea level therefore also represents a direct threat to Indonesia's economy. The challenge of developing policy at the coast is 'wicked' because while the problems posed by climate change are pressing, they are also highly complex. There are multiple causal factors; there is disagreement about the nature and causes of the problem; and there is uncertainty surrounding the best way to respond to the challenge. Solutions require commitment from all levels of government and the non-government sector in planning for solutions. This presentation will discuss Indonesia's readiness to meet these coastal management challenges.

Dr Beverley Clarke is the Director of Studies, Master of Environmental Management in the School of the Environment, Flinders University. She teaches coastal studies and environmental impact assessment. Beverley has considerable research experience in public and environmental policy evaluation and has been conducting research in the area of environmental planning and management, specialising in coasts, over the last 15 years. She publishes on topics such as social implications of sea-level rise, community participation and capacity building in coastal management.

Consumers typically purchase their requirements through traditional markets, where prices are determined by the interaction of demand and supply for the relevant goods. However, in general, traditional markets do not exist for environmental “goods” (or “bads”) such as clean air or unpolluted water and consequently these goods are treated as being free and are thus over used (or abused!). This presentation describes, with actual examples, methodologies that can be used to determine prices for environmental goods that reflect their scarcity value to society.

Professor Tony Owen is Academic Director of UCL SERAus and holds the Santos Chair in Energy Resources. Prior to joining UCL, Tony was Professor of Energy Economics in the Curtin Business School, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, and prior to that Associate Professor of Economics and Joint Director of the Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets at the University of New South Wales, Syndey. He has a PhD in Econometrics from the University of Kent (UK) and has held visiting appointments at the Universities of British Columbia, Colorado, Leeds and Exeter, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (Paris), the UK Department of Energy (Harwell), and the International Energy Agency (Paris). Energy related consulting activities have been undertaken in Australia, China, Denmark, Indonesia, Norway, the Philippines and the UK. Tony is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and Past President (2004) of the International Association for Energy Economics. He is also founding member and President of the Australian Association for Energy Economics. He is joint editor (with N Hanley) of The Economics of Climate Change (Routledge, 2004) and is Theme Editor for Energy Policy, UNESCO Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems. He serves on the International Editorial Boards of Energy Policy and Energy Sources. Recent consulting projects include Head of the Inquiry into Electricity Supply in NSW, for the NSW Government, and Energy Economist, Coal Mine Safety Study (TA4849-PRC), for the ADB.

Recent analyses of the possible adverse effects of climate change on agriculture in developing countries have raised food security concerns, especially for farm households whose crop productivity is expected to fall. The present study uses the GTAP global economy-wide model to capture at the same time the expected positive effects on temperate zone crop productivity, which will more or less offset the upward pressure on farm product prices from yield falls in developing countries. Also modelled is an expected adverse effect of higher temperatures and humidity on the productivity of unskilled workers in the tropics, but since they work in nonfarm as well as farm activities the net effect of that shock on agricultureÕs competitiveness is an empirical matter. The results suggest there may be less cause for concern over food security than some earlier studies indicated, but the degrees of uncertainty involved in such modelling are sufficient to warrant a precautionary approach.

Dr Ernesto Valenzuela is the Executive Director of the Centre for International Economic Studies at the University of Adelaide and Senior Lecturer in the School of Economics. He was elected a GTAP Research Fellow in 2009. He obtained his PhD from Purdue University in 2006. He was a Fulbright Scholar during his Master Studies and his thesis was awarded as the Southern Illinois University's Best Master thesis in 2000.

Previously, he worked for 3 years as a full time Economist Consultant at The World Bank's Development Research Group in Washington DC, where he was awarded in 2007 the World Bank "Spot Award" for extraordinary efforts (Trade Policy Unit). He was also involved as a Lecturer and Moderator for The World Bank Institute courses on Trade Policy, Export Development and Trade Growth and Poverty. He has also shared responsibilities in projects funded by the IADB, CAN, and ILRI. His research interests include a broad span of quantitative economics, with a special strength in economy-wide modeling using national and global computable general equilibrium models.

He authored in 2009 the book Poverty, Vulnerability and Trade Policy: CGE Modelling Issues, and has co-authored 34 book chapters and journal articles and more than 30 World Bank Working Papers and Trade Notes. He has published in journals as the Economic Development and Cultural Change, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Review of World Economics, The World Economy, World Trade Review, Economic Modeling, and in the working paper series of GTAP, World Bank, and CEPR.

In addition to his academic research and University teaching, his service to the profession has included:

(2010) co-authorship of 3 background papers for a CSIRO Complex Systems project on Climate Change and Food and Energy security.
Teaching consultant for a Rio Tinto sponsored activitiy in Mongolia.
(2009) co-authorship of 2 reports for the Grape and Wine Research and Development Corporation, Winemakers Federation of Australia and the Australia Wine and Brandy Corporation. These reports addressed the economic impacts of the current decline in export demand as a consequence of the global financial crisis and recession, and the prospect of a change in the consumer tax on domestic wine sales within the context of the Review of Taxation in Australia.
Invited participant for the Australian Academy of science's High Flyers- Think Tank 2009.
Co-authorship of a background technical paper prepared for The World Bank's Economic Policy Sector Support Program for Bolivia, Washington D.C., June 2008. Invited speaker for World Bank's dissemination activities, La Paz, June 2009.
(2008) co-authorship of the database and documentation of The World Bank project "Distortions to Agricultural Incentives", which covered 75 countries from 1955 to 2007. This database provides policy intervention indicators in agriculture, with a coverage of more than 70% of the world agricultural value. Available at www.worldbank.org/agdistortions and http://cies.adelaide.edu.au/agdistortions/database/report.

The reality of the environment in which today's organisations operate is one characterised by change and uncertainty. In such an environment, what may have worked in the past to bring about successful outcomes, may not necessarily work in the present or future to accomplish the same success. In times of change, knowledge quickly becomes obsolete necessitating constant renewal. It is imperative to appreciate the need to manage knowledge in organisations to ensure the availability of relevant and anticipatory knowledge to support strategic decision making.

Saras came to the University of South Australia following a successful 23 year career as a practising architect involved in the design and project management of large and complex building projects. She maintains her registration as an architect in South Australia.

Saras Sastrowardoyo’s area of research interest is in strategic knowledge management to support organisational sustainability. Her PhD thesis focused on the small-world social network structure as a form of managing dynamic knowledge; essential to organisational renewal in times of change and uncertainty. This research base informs her ongoing research and teaching activities in the various disciplines and areas of organisational management at strategic, operational and project levels.

What is the next generation of Strategic Planning for the Public Sector? The 21st century presents governments with new challenges, while many long standing problems remain. Resources are increasingly limited and demands growing. Addressing the 21st century’s challenges requires a reassessing public sector strategic planning. Building on the strategic planning frameworks that are already in place, governments need to assess existing methods in the current context and, where necessary, adopt new approaches and tools that enhance strategic planning’s value and increase the efficiency of the process.

Dr William P. Kittredge is a full time faculty at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to joining CMU, Dr Kittredge worked for six years as the Director of National Programs and Program Evaluation (NPPE) at the U.S Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration (EDA). The functions of the EDA include strategic planning, program evaluation and performance measurement.

Dr Kittredge has served as the U.S Government Representative to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and is a frequently requested speaker at international conferences in his areas of expertise.

Prior to his position at the EDA, Dr Kittredge was a faculty member at the University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs, where he served as Associate Professor of public finance and program evaluation. He has contributed extensively to professional and academic literature regarding performance evaluation, program management, and municipal bond insurance and management practices.

Dr Kittredge undertook his PhD at the Maxwell School of Public Affairs and Citizenship.

The idea of fragmentation in the global supply chains for manufactures is now well understood. The ASEAN region's part in those chains in manufacturing, including the contributions from Indonesia, is often studied. However, attention to this concept and its application to services has been lacking. Yet there is evidence that services firms, just like manufacturers, take a supply chain view of their business. The lecture will argue for this supply chain perspective on services and identify some of its implications, including for Indonesia. This perspective helps clarify the priorities for policy options in services reform and gives a greater understanding of the likely consequences of reform and of the ways in adjustment costs can be reduced. It is also relevant to the concept of upgrading or rebalancing economies, which has become more topical since the Global Financial Crisis, and which is likely to see more rapid growth of the service sector in those economies undergoing this change.

Christopher Findlay from November 2005 took up the position of Professor of Economics at the University of Adelaide. Prior to that he was Professor of Economics in the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University.

Australia's economic relations with Asia are the theme of his research. A special interest is the reform and industrialisation of the Chinese economy. Professor Findlay has been especially involved in research on the textiles, steel and air transport industries in East Asia and on the implications of developments in those industries for Australia.

Professor Findlay was a principal researcher in a major research program on impediments to services trade and investment. In the first three years of the program, innovative methods were established to assess and measure the impact of the impediments. The methodology provided estimates of tariff equivalents of barriers to forms of services sector transactions and led to the incorporation of those estimates into general equilibrium models. A book on this work was published in 2000. The second three years of this program, funded like the first by the ARC, focussed on the impact of domestic regulation on services trade and investment and has led to two new collections of papers published in 2002 and 2003.

Professor Findlay has a PhD and MEc from the ANU and an Honours degree in economics from the University of Adelaide.