Social Vulnerability to Environmental Hazards

Rural community and rural resilience: what is important to farmers in keeping their country towns alive?

Monitoring Ecological Impacts – Concepts and Practice in Flowing Waters

Identification of farmer characteristics and farm strategies explaining changes in environmental management and environmental and economic performance of dairy farms

Re-discovering the social: neo-liberalism and hybrid practices of governing in rural natural resource management

Assessment of disaster resilience using an index is often a key element of natural hazard management and planning. Many assessments have been undertaken worldwide. Emerging from these are a set of seven common properties that should be considered in the design of any disaster resilience assessment: assessment purpose, top-down or bottom-up assessment, assessment scale, conceptual framework, structural design, indicator selection, data analysis and index computation and reporting and interpretation. We introduce the design of an Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index (ANDRI) according to the common properties of resilience assessment. The ANDRI takes a top-down approach using indicators derived from secondary data with national coverage. The ANDRI is a hierarchical design based on coping and adaptive capacities representing the potential for disaster resilience. Coping capacity is the means by which people or organizations use available resources, skills and opportunities to face adverse consequences that could lead to a disaster. Adaptive capacity is the arrangements and processes that enable adjustment through learning, adaptation and transformation. Coping capacity is divided into themes of social character, economic capital, infrastructure and planning, emergency services, community capital and information and engagement. Adaptive capacity is divided into themes of governance, policy and leadership and social and community engagement. Indicators are collected to determine the status of each theme. As assessments of disaster resilience develop worldwide, reporting of their design as standard practice will track knowledge generation in the field and enhance the relationship between applied disaster resilience assessment and foundational principles of disaster resilience.

https://cyberleninka.org/article/n/662918.pdf

Top-down assessment of disaster resilience: A conceptual framework using coping and adaptive capacities

Farm adjustment is a complex process involving decisions by farmers about a wide range of economic and non-economic factors which influence the farm business and farm family. The economics literature emphasises the importance of economic factors in the adjustment behaviour of farmers. However, the observed adjustment behaviour of farmers does not correspond very closely to that predicted by that literature. Insights from the rural sociology and psychology literature offer new perspectives on farmer behaviour which are of relevance and use to both economic researchers and policy makers concerned with farm adjustment.

The Process of Farm Adjustment: A Critical Review

The Changing Economics of Rural Communities

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Richard Stayner

Papers

Top-down assessment of disaster resilience: A conceptual framework using coping and adaptive capacities

The Process of Farm Adjustment: A Critical Review

The Changing Economics of Rural Communities

Welfare and Support Services for Farm Families.

Indicators of community vulnerability and adaptive capacity across the Murray-Darling Basin: a focus on irrigation in agriculture