Managing Change

An ongoing crisis in Australian agriculture resulting from climate crises including drought, decreasing irrigation water, more recent catastrophic flooding, and an uncertain policy environment is reshaping gender relations in the intimate sphere of the farm family. Drawing on research conducted in the Murray-Darling Basin area of Australia we ask ....

This paper therefore focusses on research and findings from cases that have primarily occurred in developed countries such as the USA, New Zealand and the UK. Despite cultural differences between these countries, there is sufficient similarity in economic, social and institutional structures and conditions to enable the extrapolation an ....

This report provides an overview of current and future drivers of structural adjustment for Australia's agricultural industries. It describes the ways these adjustment pressures impact on the rural and regional sectors, and options for farmers to manage these changes. The report also provides some preliminary analysis, by way of selected case stu ....

Tropical Oceania, including Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia and northern Australia, is one of the most biodiverse regions of the world. Climate change impacts have already occurred in the region and will become one of the greatest threats to biodiversity and people. Climate projections indicate that sea levels will rise in many pl ....

An enduring concern within Australian rural geography has been to understand the nature and implications of change. Much of the intellectual effort has been focused on interpreting how rural economies, populations, social institutions, cultures, and land uses have been transformed through processes operating across a range of spatial and temporal ....

Darwin is a city in the Northern Territory of Australia expecting a 'boomtown' scenario due to significant natural resource developments in the Greater Darwin area. The experience of 'booming' has a range of impacts upon communities. Housing is a key area of impact, particularly for the most vulnerable members of a population, who may not reap th ....

The relationship between city and country is one of the great themes of Australian history, yet it has recieved surprisingly little sustained attention by historians. Current academic debates about the cause and cure of the 'rural crisis' are also conducted within a foreshortened historical framework. Report Locationhttp://search.informit.com.a ....

This paper reviews the content of non-statutory regional natural resource management (NRM) plans from several Queensland regions in terms of their consideration of the economic viability of natural resource dependant enterprises and industries, the plans consideration of the region's ability of regions to respond positively to exte ....

The author argues that small town decline is part of an inevitable historical process, and that changes in government policy are a symptom rather than a cause of decline. He uses the south west Victoria and north central Kansas regions to illustrate this survey of the long-term causes of decline. Although solutions for dealing with ....

The Regional Australia Institute (RAI) commissioned Griffith University to examine the experiences and learnings arising from the communities that have experienced, first-hand, the challenges of recovering from and adapting to the impact of disasters.    This research highlighted the strong sense of community in rural and re ....

Regional Australia is a frequent victim of natural disasters yet there is limited information about how communities recover and whether we have the right policies in place to help them get back on their feet and looking to the future. This collection of case studies looks at the experiences of four different communities and their recovery process ....

Anticipating the future is uniquely human. We strive constantly to anticipate trends and great events to seek opportunity and avoid disaster. So what will drive the future of tropical Australia? The four authors of this book, all of whom have a close association with the Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Savanna Management, identify ten ma ....

The Gascoyne Regional Development Plan is designed to provide a strategic direction for the Gascoyne region over the next ten years to 2020. Report LocationClick here to view the full publication ....

Adaptation is now recognized as an important aspect of responses to climate change. Rural communities in the prairie provinces of Canada are considered to be sensitive to the impacts of climate change due to socio-economic and geographical factors. This study examines the ways in which governance institutions shape the ability of two ru ....