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Bootcamp, climate change and seeing the blogs arrive

litfuse — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 06:28:11 +0000

For those of you who follow the LitFuse site, you would know that I helped run a “Bootcamp” on web2.0 technologies on Friday. As part of the Bootcamp, the participants are learning how to blog and respond to other blogs.

We have started a conversation about the future of farming in southern Australia given the likely climate shifts as a result of global warming. Mike Seyfang has pointed to these blogs here. (Note that I saw Mike’s blog-post come up in my Google Reader today)

I would like to refer the participants, especially in response to Michael’s blog, to the Lower Murray Landscape Futures project that investigated the impact of global warming on the landscape, economics and social impact in the lower murray region of Australia. You can click on the podcast link to listen to the key scientists talking about the project, or you can download the Executive Summary from the Publications page. If you really want to geek out, try installing Google Earth and looking at the different scenarios overlaid over an image of the region.

To summarise what the project found, climate change may in fact offer better economic opportunities for farmers in this region, assuming Australia adopts a carbon trading scheme which will make biomass fuels and biomass energy economic to produce. However, there may need to be some restoration of native habitat on land that will have a lower economic value and greater ecological value under the different climate change scenarios.

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Jeff Connor: Lower Murray Landscape Futures Riverine Component

litfuse — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:41:11 +0000

Lower Murray Landscape Futures: Presentation by Jeff Connor on the analysis of riverine areas in the Lower Murray Region given on 6th September 2007 at the Plant Research Centre on the Waite Campus. The Presentation was sponsored by the Centre for Natural Resources Management

Podcast from Lit Fuse – September 6th 2007. For more information subscribe to our podcasts at http://feeds.litfuse.com.au/litfuse

For more information on the Lower Murray Landscape Futures project, visit http://www.landscapefutures.com.au

Brett Bryan: Lower Murray Landscape Futures Dryland Component

litfuse — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:23:31 +0000

Lower Murray Landscape Futures: Presentation by Brett Bryan on the analysis of dryland areas in the Lower Murray Region given on 6th September 2007 at the Plant Research Centre on the Waite Campus. The Presentation was sponsored by the Centre for Natural Resources Management

Podcast from Lit Fuse – September 6th 2007. For more information subscribe to our podcasts at http://feeds.litfuse.com.au/litfuse

For more information on the Lower Murray Landscape Futures project, visit http://www.landscapefutures.com.au