Water in Drylands Collaborative Research Program
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In addition, and in line with our mission, we will provide you with access to a wide range of information and resources collected both nationally and internationally.
CLIMATE CHANGE THINK TANK: PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCMENT - 8-9 April 2010Adaptation and mitigation in Victorian drylands, Grains Innovation Park, Horsham, Victoria. The Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research, the University of Ballarat and WIDCORP (Water in Drylands Collaborative Research Program) are pleased to announce a free workshop on Adaptation and mitigation actions to drive positive change in natural resource management (NRM) in Victorian drylands. The think tank will focus on the potential climate change impacts and adaptation options associated with NRM in northern Victoria. It will bring together regional, national and international climate change adaptation research as it relates to NRM and land use change. To enquire further and register your expression of interest, please contact: Dr Jasmyn Lynch, Regional Futures, University of Ballarat, 03 5327 9049, j.lynch@ballarat.edu.au
View our current publications and other research reports of relevance to water planning, management and community decision making including:
Latest WIDCORP Newsletter: December 2009!New! 2 Reports comissioned by DPI Understanding farmer knowledge and attitudes to climate change, climate variability and greenhouse gas emissions and;
Farmer behaviour and enterprise change: Supply Systems 1-6 Wimmera Mallee Pipeline Survey 2009 are now available on our publications page.New! Presentation of Coping with severe drought, stories from the front line is now available on our publications page. This paper, written in collaboration with WIDCORP, was presented at the Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium in November 2009
