We review recent research of importance to understanding crop and pasture plant species
response to climate change. Topics include plant response to elevated CO2 concentration …

Institutions and institutional change are mentioned often but rarely specified in discussions
of climate adaptation. Policy change is proposed, but the detail of policy processes less …

One of the main problems confronting the world of the 21st Century is a shortage of water.
There is already severe scarcity in many regions of the world, causing tremendous problems …

Droughts have significant environmental and socio-economic impacts in Australia. This
emphasizes Australia's vulnerability to climate variability and limitations of adaptive capacity …

This paper reviews historical and existing drought and water policy in Australia in order to
gain a sense of the strengths and weaknesses in enabling effective adaptation to climate …

As this edition of The World's Water goes to press in early 2011, eastern Australia is
recovering from devastating floods that claimed more than 20 lives and destroyed hundreds …

Higher education rates are increasing throughout the Western world, yet at the same time,
government budgets face increasing constraints. This has ensured that the importance of …

Drought indices (DIs) that quantify drought events by their onset, termination, and
subsequent properties such as the severity, duration, and peak intensity are practical …

Abstract The Northern Murray–Darling Basin (MDB) is a key Australian agricultural region
requiring efficient Agricultural Drought Management (ADM), focused on resilience. Although …

The frequent occurrence of drought and the increasing severity of its impacts make the
traditional emergency approach inadequate and call for a risk-management approach …