Climate change vulnerability and social development for remote indigenous communities of South Australia

Bardsley, Douglas K.; Wiseman, Nathanael D.

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.04.003

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“…Studies indicate that Ethiopian agriculture is characterized by a low use of external inputs and it is highly vulnerable to climate variability and change [10,[14][15][16][17]. The impact on agriculture is manifested by increasing incidence of floods, droughts, and unpredictable rainfall [18,19] and has resulted in food shortage and famine in the past [20][21][22][23], and they continue to pose a serious threat to Ethiopia's development [12].…”

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Determinants of smallholder farmers’ decision to adopt adaptation options to climate change and variability in the Muger Sub basin of the Upper Blue Nile basin of Ethiopia

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Smallholder farmers' decisions to adopt adaptation options in response to climate change and variability are influenced by socioeconomic, institutional, and environmental factors, indicating that decision patterns can be very specific to a given locality. The prime objective of this research is to identify factors affecting smallholder farmers' decisions to adopt adaptation options to climate change and variability in the Muger River sub-basin of the Blue Nile basin of Ethiopia. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected using a semi-structured questionnaire, focused group discussions, and key informant interviews from 442 sampled households. Frequency, mean, Chi-square test, and one-way ANOVA were used for analysis. Furthermore, a multinomial logit model was employed to analyze the data. Results signified that small-scale irrigation, agronomic practices, livelihood diversification, and soil and water conservation measures are the dominant adaptation options that smallholder farmers used to limit the negative impact of climate change and variability in the study area. The results further revealed that adoption of small-scale irrigation as an adaptation to climate change and variability is significantly and positively influenced by access to credit, social capital, and the educational status of household heads. Greater distance to marketplace and size of farmland negatively affected the use of agronomic practices, whereas crop failure experience and access to early warning systems have a positive influence. The results also point out that adoption of soil and water conservation measures are positively affected by exposure to early warning systems, greater distance to the marketplace, and larger size of cultivated land. It is also noted that livelihood diversification is negatively influenced by socioeconomic factors such as education, the gender of the household head, and livestock ownership. Overall, the results suggested that improved policies aimed at increasing the adoption of adaptation options to offset the impact of climate change and variability should focus on: creating effective microfinance institutions and effective early warning systems, increasing farmer awareness, improving infrastructure, and encouraging farmers' membership to many social groups. The results further suggested that agroecological and gender-based research should be promoted and increased for a more holistic understanding of farmer adaptation options.

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Determinants of smallholder farmers’ decision to adopt adaptation options to climate change and variability in the Muger Sub basin of the Upper Blue Nile basin of Ethiopia

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“…While specific elements of the social learning processes undertaken with stakeholders are detailed elsewhere (see Campbell 2008; Bardsley & Rogers 2011;Bardsley & Wiseman 2012;AECOM 2013), the following discussion is framed conceptually by a critical analysis of the researcher's roles when working through social learning processes with stakeholder organisations. While stakeholders developed much of the new knowledge and facilitated actions, the social-learning researcher must facilitate change in thought and practice as an organic intellectual; respond to the social justice elements of supporting people; and integrate the complex and action-focused research into the life of the professional geographer.…”

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“…While the key stages of social learning within those organisations are presented, the discussion focuses away from the research approach itself, as it has been detailed elsewhere (Bardsley & Sweeney 2010;Bardsley & Rogers 2011;Bardsley & Wiseman 2012;Wiseman & Bardsley 2013). Rather, the roles of the geographer to facilitate social learning are critically reviewed.…”

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Navigating the Roles of the Social Learning Researcher: a critical analysis of a learning approach to guide climate change adaptation

Bardsley

2014

Australian Geographer

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Climate change adaptation is now a core theme of Australian geographical research. Climatic risks to socio-ecosystems are unbounded and highly uncertain and as a result require learning-based approaches to generate appropriate adaptation responses. Geographical research can effectively integrate knowledge developed through the mutual learning of researchers and stakeholders within a place to help guide adaptation planning. The roles of the geographer as a social learning researcher are critically analysed within the context of climate change adaptation research undertaken to support regional natural resource management adaptation planning in South Australia. Three research roles from the social learning literature are used to frame the analysis: the organic intellectual; the advocate for social justice; and the contemporary professional academic. While the social learning helped to develop a range of experimental adaptation policies and actions, the research would have proceeded more effectively if the challenges of the approach had been initially understood. The problems which emerge from social learning research, including inevitable tensions between real-world and academic outcomes, need to be acknowledged along with any successes to prepare future geographers to facilitate learning about socioecological risk.

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“…Some key assets such as surface and groundwater dependent ecosystems; ecosystems impacted by invasive mammals; places at risk of flood and fire; and land sensitive to cattle over-grazing, could all be highly sensitive to climate change (Holmgren et al, 2006). However, in most cases, impacts of climate change in the AW region are likely to weaken already degraded ecosystems further, rather than lead to fundamental change (Bardsley and Wiseman, 2012). In part, that is because vital ecosystems have already passed through thresholds of change due to anthropogenic impacts since European colonisation (Robinson et al, 2003).…”

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Limits to adaptation or a second modernity? Responses to climate change risk in the context of failing socio-ecosystems

Bardsley

2014

Environ Dev Sustain

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Springer is a green publisher, as we allow self-archiving, but most importantly we are fully transparent about your rights. Publishing in a subscription-based journal AbstractThere is a concerning fallacy at the heart of the debate on climate change adaptation -that adaptation will involve re-adjustments primarily on the periphery of functioning socioecological systems. Yet, dominant modern systems are already in crisis. Case study examples from research across global, continental and regional scales are used to argue that gaps between sustainability goals and outcomes are already significant. Analyses of food security, human migration and natural resource management systems indicate that climate change forms only part of failing relationships between people and their environments. There is a need to transform socio-ecosystems so that they become resilient in the context of broader learning on environmental uncertainty, variability, change and risk. Such transformations will occur both in situ, to ensure that local environments are not further degraded or people entrenched in failing systems, and ex situ, as people, systems and infrastructure become increasingly mobile to deal with changing circumstances.

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Climate change vulnerability and social development for remote indigenous communities of South Australia

Cited by 86 publications

References 51 publications

Determinants of smallholder farmers’ decision to adopt adaptation options to climate change and variability in the Muger Sub basin of the Upper Blue Nile basin of Ethiopia

Determinants of smallholder farmers’ decision to adopt adaptation options to climate change and variability in the Muger Sub basin of the Upper Blue Nile basin of Ethiopia

Navigating the Roles of the Social Learning Researcher: a critical analysis of a learning approach to guide climate change adaptation

Limits to adaptation or a second modernity? Responses to climate change risk in the context of failing socio-ecosystems

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