DOI: 10.1007/s10584-016-1698-x
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84973124607
论文题名: Learning the hard way: a case study of an attempt at agricultural transformation in response to climate change
作者: Jakku E. ; Thorburn P.J. ; Marshall N.A. ; Dowd A.-M. ; Howden S.M. ; Mendham E. ; Moon K. ; Brandon C.
刊名: Climatic Change
ISSN: 0165-0009
EISSN: 1573-1480
出版年: 2016
卷: 137, 期: 2018-03-04 起始页码: 557
结束页码: 574
语种: 英语
Scopus关键词: Agriculture
; Adaptation to climate changes
; Agricultural enterprise
; Climatic changes
; In-depth study
; Northern territories
; Organisational adaptation
; Research questions
; Semi structured interviews
; Climate change
; adaptive management
; agricultural change
; climate change
; climate effect
; literature review
; prediction
; rainfall
; research work
; vulnerability
; Australia
; Katherine
; Northern Territory
; Queensland
; Arachis hypogaea
英文摘要: There is increasing interest in transformational adaptation to climate change in agriculture, i.e. adaptation that involves large-scale, novel responses to reduce vulnerability to climate risks. Transformational adaptation is less well understood than incremental adaptation, since there are few studies of agricultural enterprises making transformative changes in response to climatic change. This paper is an in-depth study of an agricultural company’s attempt to implement transformational adaptation in response to climate change. We document the Peanut Company of Australia’s (PCA) response to predicted climatic change by expanding its operations into Katherine, Northern Territory, after decades of below-average rainfall in their traditional production region in south-east Queensland. Our research question was: what conditions and processes influenced the outcome of the company’s response? We conducted 37 semi-structured interviews with company, government and community representatives to examine diverse perspectives on PCA’s expansion into Katherine and its subsequent strategic retreat. To reveal insights into why, when and how this attempted transformational adaptation occurred we reviewed the literature and identified Park et al.’s (2012) Adaptation Action Cycles (AAC) framework and aspects from the organisational adaptation literature as useful for our analysis. Based on our findings, we revised the AAC framework to better reflect the way that incremental adaptation in situ can occur simultaneously with transformational adaptation at a new location. Our study illustrates that transformational adaptation in agriculture is difficult, complex, risky and costly and sometimes unsuccessful, revealing some of the challenges of and barriers to organisational adaptation in agriculture, especially when moving to a new location. © 2016, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
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资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/84261
Appears in Collections: 气候减缓与适应 气候变化事实与影响
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作者单位: CSIRO Land and Water, GPO Box 2583, Brisbane, Qld, Australia; CSIRO Agriculture, 306 Carmody Road, St Lucia, Brisbane, Qld, Australia; CSIRO Land and Water, Private Mail Bag, Aitkenvale, Qld, Australia; CSIRO Strategy, Market Vision and Innovation, PO Box 883, Kenmore, Brisbane, Qld, Australia; Climate Change Institute, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia; Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation, Charles Sturt University, PO Box 789, Albury, NSW, Australia; Institute for Applied Ecology, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia; School of Business, University of New South Wales, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Recommended Citation:
Jakku E.,Thorburn P.J.,Marshall N.A.,et al. Learning the hard way: a case study of an attempt at agricultural transformation in response to climate change[J]. Climatic Change,2016-01-01,137(2018-03-04)