Climate Change Impacts and Risk Management : Improving farm resilience through adaptation in the crop-livestock zone of the Corangamite catchment in Victoria (Australia) with a Case Study of the ´Mount Hesse´ farm,Die Auswirkungen des Klimawandels und Anpassungsstrategien : Resilienz und Anpassung in der Ackerbau-Viehzucht Zone des Corangamite Einzugsgebiet in Südwest Victoria/Australien mit einer Fallstudie Mt Hesse Farm
Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
Erscheinungsjahr:
2018
Medientyp:
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Schlagworte:
climate change
agriculture
risk management
Australia
550 Geowissenschaften
38.09 Physische Geographie
38.82 Klimatologie
74.09 Sozialgeographie
74.27 Australien, Ozeanien
ddc:550
Beschreibung:
This PhD thesis focuses on the risks, challenges but also possible opportunities that climate variability and change is coming along with for the Corangamite catchment and the case study Mt Hesse, located in south-east Victoria/Australia. There has been a temperature increase of about 1°C over the last century and a precipitation decrease. This trend is expected to continue in future which means that adaptation strategies are becoming a vital concern. Adaptation aims to reduce risks for agricultural production, helps to cope with uncertainty, harness beneficial opportunities and supports business resilience. Therefore, farmers in the catchment and sectoral experts from private, research and governmental institutions have been interviewed to explore perceptions, potential constraints to adaptation and to develop a proper risk management framework for farmers in the catchment.