Options for Victorian agriculture in a “new” climate: Pilot study linking climate change and land suitability modelling

Climate Change Effects on the Suitability of an Agricultural Area to Maize Cultivation

“…Empirical, semiquantitative approaches to estimate crop productivity under climate change were, for instance, applied by Ewert et al (2005) in Europe, documenting by surveys regional yield variability and temporal changes due to crop and management improvement. Hood et al (2006) applied an expert-based multicriteria evaluation approach to assess land suitability for grapes and possible impacts of climate change (quantification of climate impacts was based on climate indices such as heat degree days, frost days, and rainfall aggregated over specific periods). Brown et al (2008) derived their evaluation of agricultural suitability from estimates of soil moisture deficit and accumulated temperature over the growing period.…”

Multiattribute Decision Analysis Methods

“…This can be attributed to the presence of the complex pattern interactions and feedbacks within clusters of elements and between clusters of the network system. GIS-AHP/ANP has proved to be an effective approach for a wide variety of decision and management situations such as: land use/suitability analysis (Banai 1993;Abdullah et al 1994;Tseng et al 2001;Hill et al 2005;Hood et al 2006;Gemitzi et al 2007;Anagnostopoulos et al 2010;Chen et al 2010;Eldrandaly 2013), site selection problem (Jun 2000;Siddiqui et al 1996;Sumathi et al 2008), vulnerability analysis (Thirumalaivasan et al 2003;Gorsevski et al 2006), and plan/impact evaluation (Klungboonkrong and Taylor 1998). The method has been used in a broad range of application domains.…”

“…The method has been used in a broad range of application domains. The most popular areas of application include: agriculture and fisheries (Tseng et al 2001;Hill et al 2005;Hood et al 2006;Rahmarv and Saha 2008;Nekhay et al 2009;Chen et al 2010;Feizizadeh and Blaschke 2013), transportation (Banai 1998;Klungboonkrong and Taylor 1998;Sadeghi-Niaraki and Kim 2009), waste management (Banai 1993;Gemitzi et al 2007;Sumathi et al 2008;Ferretti and Pomarico 2012), and geomorphology (Komac 2006;Neaupane and Piantanakulchai 2006).…”

A strategic approach to climate change impacts and adaptation

“…Drs. Penny Whetton, Kevin Hennessy, Cher Page and Bob Cechet (CSIRO) were significant contributors to the research and some of its reports (Sposito et al 2004;Hood et al 2002).…”

“…During 2002-2004, PIRVic carried out the initial research on the impact of climate change on selected agricultural/forestry systems in the Gippsland Region (Cool Climate Grapes, Blue Gum, and pasture) and Goulburn Broken Region (Pome Fruit -pears and apples) (Hood et al 2002;Sposito et al 2004). The results of the modelling exercise to explore the impact of climate change on apples in the Goulburn Broken Region are shown in Maps 2-4.…”