<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . . "Modelling to evaluate agricultural adaptation to climate\r\nchange in southern Australia"^^ . "An important issue for Australian agriculture is the capacity to adapt to predicted climate change.\r\nThe International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (2009) refers to adaptation as ‘adjustment in natural and\r\nhuman systems in response to actual or expected climate stimuli or their effects, which moderates harm or\r\nexploits beneficial opportunities’. Conceptualizing and evaluating adaptation options in agricultural\r\nindustries should be conducted at the farming systems level (Rickards et al. (2012), Hayman et al. (2012))\r\nbecause it is at this level that management decisions are made and financial as well as natural resource\r\nimpacts will be felt. In particular whole-farm analysis can represent purposeful, goal-seeking systems (Dillon\r\n1976) to assess farmers’ profitability and the system’s sensitivity to risks such as climate variability and\r\nchange. The potential of Australian dryland agricultural systems to adapt to climate change with perennial\r\nplants was assessed by Farquharson et al. (2013). Perennial plants have deeper rooting systems with\r\nimproved access to soil moisture, making them better suited to warmer and drier climates. Climate data were\r\ngenerated using Global Circulation Models (GCMs) downscaled to specific locations and corrected for bias\r\n(Liu and Zuo 2012). The climate data were used to estimate growth and yield of grain crops, pastures, and an\r\nenergy-tree crop using process models such as APSIM (McCown et al. (1996)) and GrassGro (Moore et al.\r\n(1997). Plant yield and production estimates and economic data (prices of inputs and commodities) were used\r\nin bio-economic models (MIDAS (Kingwell and Pannell 1987) and IMAGINE (Abadi and Cooper 2004)) to\r\nidentify the most profitable land use and the cash flow of options available to growers."^^ . "2013" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "T"^^ . "Ramilan"^^ . "T Ramilan"^^ . . "A"^^ . "Abadi"^^ . "A Abadi"^^ . . "S"^^ . "Clark"^^ . "S Clark"^^ . . "M"^^ . "Anwar"^^ . "M Anwar"^^ . . "J"^^ . "Finlayson"^^ . "J Finlayson"^^ . . "R"^^ . "Farquharson"^^ . "R Farquharson"^^ . . "D L"^^ . "Liu"^^ . "D L Liu"^^ . . . . "20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2013)"^^ . . . . . "Adelaide, Australia"^^ . . . . . . "Modelling to evaluate agricultural adaptation to climate\r\nchange in southern Australia (PDF)"^^ . . . . . "Modelling-to-evaluate.pdf"^^ . . . "Modelling to evaluate agricultural adaptation to climate\r\nchange in southern Australia (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "lightbox.jpg"^^ . . . "Modelling to evaluate agricultural adaptation to climate\r\nchange in southern Australia (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "preview.jpg"^^ . . . "Modelling to evaluate agricultural adaptation to climate\r\nchange in southern Australia (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "medium.jpg"^^ . . . "Modelling to evaluate agricultural adaptation to climate\r\nchange in southern Australia (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "small.jpg"^^ . . . "Modelling to evaluate agricultural adaptation to climate\r\nchange in southern Australia (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #7275 \n\nModelling to evaluate agricultural adaptation to climate \nchange in southern Australia\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Climate Change"@en . .