Agriculture and Resilience in Australia’s North A Lived Experience /

This book examines the mechanisms and strategies farmers in North Australia adopt to manage the setbacks and challenges they face. This social research is based on farmers’ experiences, but also draws on the author’s own experience after his tropical fruit farm was destroyed by two Category 5 cyclon...

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Main Authors: Noble, Keith. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Dennis, Tania. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Larkins, Sarah. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8355-7
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: North Australian Theory and Realities
  • Chapter 1. Agriculture as a Human Endeavour
  • Chapter 2: Resilience Discourse and Adaption Strategies
  • Chapter 3: Agricultural Development in Northern Australia
  • Chapter 4: Framing Northern Australian Agriculture’s Future
  • Chapter 5: Why, and How, to Consider the Resilience of Individuals?
  • Part 2: Lived Experience - Why People, Place, and Services Matter
  • Chapter 6: The Resilience Strategies of Individuals
  • Chapter 7: The Influence and Importance of the Built Environment
  • Chapter 8: Health as a Building Block for Resilience
  • Part 3. Discussion and Conclusions
  • Chapter 9: Bringing it together - the Thread of Fairness
  • Chapter 10: A Fair Go, a Fair Future.