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Climate Change in Regional Australia: Social Learning and Adaptation

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Martin, J; Rogers, M;Winter C
  • Publisher: Victorian Universities Regional Research Network (VURRN) Press
  • Published Location: Ballarat, Victoria
  • ISBN: 9781876851361
  • Country: Australia

In this book are case studies of community level approaches to climate change mitigation and adaptation covering communities and governance, farming communities, economics and water. The cases are based on research being undertaken across Australian communities and show how a social learning approach can bring about fundamental change with lastin ....

Climate change, prolonged drought conditions and health : implications for rural Australia

  • Year: 2007
  • Author: McMichael, Tony
  • Journal Name: 9th National Rural Health Conference
  • Publisher: National Rural Health Alliance
  • Published Location: Deakin West, ACT
  • Country: Australia

The issues surrounding climate change and its implications for human health are complex. This presentation considers climate, climate change, the possible relationships to drought and the prospects for future climatic conditions in Australia, and their likely effects on public health. The paper provides some background information ....

Climate change, variability and conservation impacts in Australia

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Prowse, Thomas AA; Brook, Barry W
  • Journal Name: Pacific Conservation Biology
  • Journal Number: Vol. 17, No. 3
  • Country: Australia

Australian conservation scientists, managers and decision makers must come to grips with anthropogenic climate change, imposed upon an already variable regional climate system. Pre- and postinstrumental records and climate proxies indicate that Australia has experienced wet and dry cycles over intradecadal to millennial time scales ....

Climate-smart agriculture: A food policy perspective

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Peter Timmer
  • Journal Name: Partners in Research for Development
  • Journal Number: Summer 2013
  • Publisher: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 1031-1009
  • Country: Australia

In the past few years there has been renewed emphasis on the challenge of achieving food security for all. Policy initiatives that build on the theme of flexibility in coping with market instability, first introduced in Food Policy Analysis (Timmer CP, Falcon W and Pearson S, The World Bank, 1983), are an important element in meeting that challen ....

Commercial and Sustainable Use of Wildlife -Suggestions to improve conservation, land management and rural economies

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: Rosie Cooney
  • Publisher: Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation
  • Published Location: Barton, ACT
  • ISBN: 1741517885
  • Country: Australia

Commercial sustainable use of wildlife has received increasing attention in recent years, both internationally and in Australia, as a tool to achieve both improved conservation and land management outcomes and support diverse, resilient rural economies and societies. While the concept remains relatively unfamiliar in Australia, a wide range of fo ....

Common hydrological features in Australian irrigation areas: scoping study

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Fuller D; Ife D; Watkins N; McLean A
  • Publisher: Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Country: Australia

A scoping study examining the best way to present material on the common hydro-geological systems where irrigation areas are situated and which hydro-geological systems should be represented concluded that there is potential and support for a project which increases awareness of the similarities and differences across irrigation re ....

Conflict over water use in the Liverpool Plains/Namoi River region of the Murray-Darling Basin

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Lynne Griffiths
  • Journal Name: Interaction
  • Journal Number: Vol. 41 No. 2
  • Publisher: Geography Teachers Association of Victoria
  • Published Location: Melbourne, Vic.
  • ISBN: 0310-7949
  • Country: Australia

Last year when teaching VCE Unit 3, Area of Study 1, I gathered information for a new case study of conflict over the use of water in the Murray-Darling Basin region. I usually set students a research task to examine a case study of conflict. This information is then presented by students to the class and forms part of the material to be assessed ....

Context is critical: Dairy farmers responding to climate variability

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Rowbottom, B and Linehan, C
  • Journal Name: Water and Climate: Policy Implementation Challenges; Proceedings of the 2nd Practical Responses to Climate Change Conference
  • Publisher: Engineers Australia
  • Published Location: Barton, A.C.T.
  • ISBN: 9780858259119
  • Country: Australia

Seasonal, structural and market conditions during the last decade led to unprecedented changes being made by Australian dairy farmers. To remain relevant to dairy farmers, industry and government must ensure future policies and programs are informed by an understanding of farmers' needs. Semi-structured, face-to-face, qualitative interviews were ....

Coping and resilience in farming families affected by drought

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Caldwell, K; Boyd, C P
  • Journal Name: Rural and Remote Health
  • Journal Number: Vol.9, No.2
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

The present study was a qualitative investigation of the impact of drought on rural families of southern New South Wales, Australia, with particular emphasis on the concept of resilience in times of stress. The aim was to provide insight, from a psychological perspective, into the experiences of rural farmers in a time of adversity ....

Coping with a crisis: human services in times of drought

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Alston, Margaret; Kent, Jenny
  • Journal Name: Rural Society
  • Journal Number: Vol.14, No.3
  • Country: Australia

This paper draws on original research conducted in 2003 with drought affected people and communities in inland NSW The paper outlines the scale of the drought, its social impacts and the resultant need for services. Income support mechanisms aimed at drought affected people and communities such as the Exceptional Services scheme ha ....

Criteria and methods for evaluating regional plans in the tropical savannas

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: McDonald GT; McAlpine CA; Taylor BM; Vagg AR
  • Publisher: CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems
  • Published Location: Brisbane, Qld
  • ISBN: 1920949011
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland, Northern Territory, Western Australia

Stage one of a project to develop and implement a plan evaluation framework to assess the extent to which existing regional plans in Australia's tropical savannas could contribute to sustainable use and healthy savanna landscapes identified a range of criteria that define the scope and substantive content of plans. In particular, s ....

Dealing with Extremes: The Lake Boga Follow-up Study - Report on Findings

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Elissa Waters; Fiona McKenzie; Sam Pendergast
  • Publisher: Department of Planning and Community Development
  • Published Location: Melbourne, Vic
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

The Department of Planning and Community Development (DPCD) has an interest in understanding how communities cope with, and respond to, social, economic and environmental change. This report outlines the findings of a set of interviews conducted in Lake Boga in early 2011. The interviews were a follow-up to rese ....

Decisions Made by Farmers that Relate to Climate Change

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Hogan, Anthony; Berry, L Helen; Ng, Susan Peng; Bode, Adam
  • Publisher: Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation
  • Published Location: Barton, ACT
  • ISBN: 9781742541730
  • Country: Australia

This RIRDC paper reports on a study of 4,000 Australian farmers. It examines factors that are associated with decisions they may or may not make to adapt to risks posed by climate change. The report reveals that a majority of farmers are simply focusing on surviving in the short term in the face of a myriad of challenges which go well beyond cli ....

Defining stakeholder roles as a first step to adaptive planning – a local government case study

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: HA Cat, MP Dent
  • Journal Name: Water and Climate: Policy Implementation Challenges; Proceedings of the 2nd Practical Responses to Climate Change Conference
  • Publisher: Engineers Australia
  • Published Location: Barton, A.C.T.
  • ISBN: 9780858259119
  • Country: Australia

Narromine and Warren shires are reliant on a water-dependent economy, which is impacted by both water policy and climate change. The prospect of future water reduction under the proposed Murray-Darling Basin Plan, on top of existing buybacks and climate change projections, prompted the local shires to develop an adaptation plan to prepare for a f ....

Delivering A Healthy Working Basin About the draft Basin Plan

  • Year: 2011
  • Publisher: Murray-Darling Basin Authority
  • Published Location: Canberra ACT
  • ISBN: 978‑1‑921557‑83‑5
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales

Most of the rivers of the Murray–Darling Basin can be considered ‘working rivers’. While the flows in some rivers, like the Paroo, remain mostly natural, for the majority of rivers, water is captured, extracted or diverted to support communities, agriculture and other industries. Communities also value healthy and functioning river and floo ....

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