scholarly journals Potential impacts of projected climate change on safe carrying capacities for extensive grazing lands of northern Australia

2011 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Extensive Grazing ◽  
Grazing Lands

scholarly journals Impacts of projected climate change on pasture growth and safe carrying capacities for 3 extensive grazing land regions in northern Australia

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giselle L. Whish ◽  
Robyn A. Cowley ◽  
Lester I. Pahl ◽  
Joe C. Scanlan ◽  
Neil D. Macleod ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Grazing Land ◽  
Extensive Grazing

scholarly journals Examining local perspectives on the influence of climate change on the health of Hamer pastoralists and their livestock in Ethiopia

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Lumborg ◽  
Samuel Tefera ◽  
Barry Munslow ◽  
Siobhan M. Mor
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
Disease Outbreaks ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Framework Analysis ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Grazing Lands

AbstractThis study explores the perceived influence of climate change on the health of Hamer pastoralists and their livestock in south-western Ethiopia. A combination of focus group discussions and key informant interviews were conducted with Hamer communities as well as local health workers, animal health workers and non-governmental organisation (NGO) staff. Thematic framework analysis was used to analyse the data. Reductions in rangeland, erratic rainfall, recurrent droughts and loss of seasonality were perceived to be the biggest climate challenges influencing the health and livelihoods of the Hamer. Communities were travelling greater distances to access sufficient grazing lands, and this was leading to livestock deaths and increases in ethnic violence. Reductions in suitable rangeland were also precipitating disease outbreaks in animals due to increased mixing of different herds. Negative health impacts in the community stemmed indirectly from decreases in livestock production, uncertain crop harvests and increased water scarcity. The remoteness of grazing lands has resulted in decreased availability of animal milk, contributing to malnutrition in vulnerable groups, including children. Water scarcity in the region has led to utilisation of unsafe water sources resulting in diarrhoeal illnesses. Further, seasonal shifts in climate-sensitive diseases such as malaria were also acknowledged. Poorly resourced healthcare facilities with limited accessibility combined with an absence of health education has amplified the community’s vulnerability to health challenges. The resilience and ambition for livelihood diversification amongst the Hamer was evident. The introduction of camels, increase in permanent settlements and new commercial ideas were transforming their livelihood strategies. However, the Hamer lack a voice to express their perspectives, challenges and ambitions. There needs to be collaborative dynamic dialogue between pastoral communities and the policy-makers to drive sustainable development in the area without compromising the values, traditions and knowledge of the pastoralists.

Grazing lands in Sub-Saharan Africa and their potential role in climate change mitigation: What we do and don't know

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 70-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleanor Milne ◽  
Ermias Aynekulu ◽  
Andre Bationo ◽  
Niels H. Batjes ◽  
Randall Boone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Grazing Lands ◽  
Change Mitigation

Assessing the impacts of climate change and dams on floodplain inundation and wetland connectivity in the wet–dry tropics of northern Australia

2015 ◽  
Vol 522 ◽  
pp. 80-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fazlul Karim ◽  
Dushmanta Dutta ◽  
Steve Marvanek ◽  
Cuan Petheram ◽  
Catherine Ticehurst ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Dry Tropics ◽  
Wetland Connectivity ◽  
Floodplain Inundation ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

The management of climate change through prescribed Savanna burning: Emerging contributions of indigenous people in Northern Australia

2008 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 374-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Whitehead ◽  
Paul Purdon ◽  
Jeremy Russell-Smith ◽  
Peter M. Cooke ◽  
Stephen Sutton
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Savanna Burning

scholarly journals Divisible Governance: Making Gas-fired Futures during Climate Collapse in Northern Australia

2022 ◽  
pp. 016224392110725
Author(s):  
Kirsty Howey ◽  
Timothy Neale
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Shale Gas ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Ecological Effects ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
Widespread Acceptance

Despite widespread acceptance that their emissions accelerate climate change and its disastrous ecological effects, new fossil fuel extraction projects continue apace, further entrenching fossil fuel dependence, and thereby enacting particular climate futures. In this article, we examine how this is occurring in the case of a proposed onshore shale gas “fracking” industry in the remote Northern Territory of Australia, drawing on policy and legal documents and interviews with an enunciatory community of scientists, lawyers, activists, and policy makers to illustrate what we call “divisible governance.” Divisible governance—enacted through technical maneuvers of temporal and jurisdictional risk fragmentation—not only facilitates the piecemeal entrenchment of unsustainable extraction but also sustains ignorance on the part of this enunciatory community and the wider public about the impacts of such extraction and the manner in which it is both facilitated and regulated. Such governance regimes, we suggest, create felicitous conditions for governments to defer, forestall, or eliminate their accountability while regulating their way further and further into catastrophic climate change. Countering divisible governance begins, we suggest, by mapping the connections that it fragments.

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