2013
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.06.003
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Drought and the future of rural communities: Opportunities and challenges for climate change adaptation in regional Victoria, Australia

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“…There is critical lack of preparedness in Zambia. As argued by [33] building adaptation and resilience to climate change for agrarian communities is very important for sustainable rural development. That is why governments and concerned non-government organizations must work together and take a quick and board action and revalue the small-scale farming enterprise as critical to environmental, social-cultural and economic well-being for sustainable rural development.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There is critical lack of preparedness in Zambia. As argued by [33] building adaptation and resilience to climate change for agrarian communities is very important for sustainable rural development. That is why governments and concerned non-government organizations must work together and take a quick and board action and revalue the small-scale farming enterprise as critical to environmental, social-cultural and economic well-being for sustainable rural development.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In order to achieve ecological health and socio-economic sustainable development, agriculture was selected as the primary beginning sector when Australia coped with drought and water crisis [27]. For the NX region, with the constraint of the amount of available Yellow River water being fixed, the construction of modern efficient water-saving agriculture was both an objective and an important means on the way to socio-economic sustainable development.…”
Section: Adaptation Pathway and Goalmentioning
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“…The Water Act 2007 and the National Water Initiatives revised by the National Drought Policy (established in 1992) currently constitute the national framework of Australian water policy, while Our Water Our Future is a long-term plan of the Victorian State Government's water policy [25]. Under the national framework, the Australian and state governments proposed the Murray-Darling Basin Plan (MDBP) and implemented water reform at a basin level in the MDB, which is the most productive agricultural area of Australia and produces around 40% of Australia's gross value of agricultural produce [14,26,27]. The MDBP provides an integrated approach to manage the water resources of the MDB [28].…”
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“…climate change information producers) and end-users across a range of sectors and contexts (Pielke Jr 2007, Li et al 2010, Ekstrom et al 2011, Dilling & Lemos 2011, Lemos et al 2012). This disconnect is a particular issue within the agricultural sector and rural communities, as climate change compounds existing vulnerabilities caused by exposure to hydroclimatic extremes, falling commodity prices, rural demogra phic shifts and a changing farming industry (Kiem et al 2010, Rickards 2012, Kiem & Austin 2013.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%