Journal article
Where Is the Coherent Response to Climate Change and Peak Oil? An Examination of Policy and Practice Affecting Agriculture in Regional Australia
International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol.18(3), pp.199-216
2011
Abstract
Climate change and peak oil will have profound impacts on food production across the world. This article uses selected documents from the agriculture policy arena to explore international, national and local scale responses and recommendations. Using two regional Australian case-studies, we describe local farming practice. We find that while seeking to be adaptive overall, farm decisions are, necessarily complex, often limited and result in both short- and long-term perverse outcomes. This includes changes previously considered as innovative or adaptive responses to climate change or energy constraint. By contrast, these responses now may appear reactive and maladaptive. We argue that the maladaptive responses are most likely to continue because of a lack of policy coherence and integration across scales. Farm experimentation and improvization requires supportive coherent policies. Good on-ground decision-making requires clear signals that support change beyond current variations within a 'business as usual' trajectory
Details
- Title
- Where Is the Coherent Response to Climate Change and Peak Oil? An Examination of Policy and Practice Affecting Agriculture in Regional Australia
- Authors
- R Beilin (Author) - University of MelbourneS Hill (Author) - University of MelbourneTamara S Sysak (Author) - University of Melbourne
- Publication details
- International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol.18(3), pp.199-216
- Publisher
- Research Committee on Food and Agriculture
- Date published
- 2011
- ISSN
- 0798-1759
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2011 Research Committee on Food and Agriculture. Reproduced here with permission of the copyright holder.
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Thompson Institute; School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449316702621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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