The science and policy of climate variability and climate change: intersections and possibilities
Edited book (chapter)
Chapter Title | The science and policy of climate variability and climate change: intersections and possibilities |
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Book Chapter Category | Edited book (chapter) |
ERA Publisher ID | 1624 |
3415 | |
Book Title | Drought, risk management, and policy: decision-making under uncertainty |
Authors | Cockfield, Geoff (Author) and Dovers, Stephen (Author) |
Editors | Botterill, Linda Courtenay and Cockfield, Geoff |
Page Range | 29-44 |
Series | Drought and Water Crises |
Chapter Number | 3 |
Number of Pages | 16 |
Year | 2013 |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Taylor & Francis | |
Place of Publication | Boca Raton, FL. United States |
ISBN | 9781439876299 |
9781439876503 | |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.crcnetbase.com/isbn/978-1-4398-7629-9 |
Abstract | Drought policies have generally been attempts to manage, adapt to, and ameliorate the impacts of climate variability with the assumption that this is variability around long-term averages in rainfall, temperatures, and crop and water yields. As noted in Chapter 1, this results in either or both reactive policies to address the effects of particular droughts and anticipatory policies to encourage resources managers to prepare for dry periods. With the emergence of concerns about climate change, discussions of drought policy will increasingly have to consider both variability and the possibility of underlying long-term changes in the key climatic variables-that is, non stationarity. This chapter will first review the points where the sciences relating to climate change and climate variability are intersecting. Second, the policy implications of adjusting to increased variability and, in some cases, increasing drought frequency are considered. Third, there is a discussion of the ways in which popular narratives about drought and climate change interact, with a particular focus on the ways that resource users interpret the two phenomena and in some cases use one (drought) to refute the other (climate change). |
Keywords | climate change; government policy; drought proofing; mitigation |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 440709. Public policy |
370202. Climatology | |
300202. Agricultural land management | |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | Australian Centre for Sustainable Catchments |
Australian National University | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q1zzx/the-science-and-policy-of-climate-variability-and-climate-change-intersections-and-possibilities
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