Search Results - "Rohan Nelson"

Forest conservation, wood production intensification and leakage: An Australian case by Warman, Russell D., Nelson, Rohan A.

“…•We assess leakage of wood harvest arising from forest protection policies in Australia.•Due to strong plantation wood substitution effects leakage is…”
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Adaptation science for agriculture and natural resource management — urgency and theoretical basis by Meinke, Holger, Howden, S Mark, Struik, Paul C, Nelson, Rohan, Rodriguez, Daniel, Chapman, Scott C

“…The urgency for adaptation actions in response to climate risks is rapidly growing and climate change mitigation efforts alone are insufficient to avoid…”
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Placing the power of real options analysis into the hands of natural resource managers – Taking the next step by Nelson, Rohan, Howden, Mark, Hayman, Peter

“…This paper explores heuristic methods with potential to place the analytical power of real options analysis into the hands of natural resource managers. The…”
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Using adaptive governance to rethink the way science supports Australian drought policy by Nelson, Rohan, Howden, Mark, Smith, Mark Stafford

“…In this paper we show how ideas from a longstanding but little recognised literature on adaptive governance can be used to rethink the way science supports…”
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Actionable climate knowledge: from analysis to synthesis by Meinke, Holger, Nelson, Rohan, Kokic, Phil, Stone, Roger, Selvaraju, Ramasamy, Baethgen, Walter

“…The traditional reductionist approach to science has a tendency to create 'islands of knowledge in a sea of ignorance', with a much stronger focus on analysis…”
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Enabling natural resource managers to self-assess their adaptive capacity by Brown, Peter R., Nelson, Rohan, Jacobs, Brent, Kokic, Phil, Tracey, Jacquie, Ahmed, Mehnaz, DeVoil, Peter

“…We describe the development of a low cost, repeatable self-assessment process enabling community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) groups to set…”
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Interpretive review of conceptual frameworks and research models that inform Australia’s agricultural vulnerability to climate change by Pearson, Leonie J., Nelsonc, Rohan, Crimp, Steve, Langridge, Jenny

“…Agriculture in Australia is highly vulnerable to climate change. Understanding the sector’s vulnerability is critical to developing immediate policy for the…”
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A Participatory Assessment of NRM Capacity to Inform Policy and Practice: Cross-Scale Evaluation of Enabling and Constraining Factors by Leith, Peat, Jacobs, Brent, Brown, Peter R., Nelson, Rohan

“…The capacity of private landholders to manage natural resources is constrained and enabled by diverse, interconnected, and changing factors, which vary…”
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Landraces as an adaptation strategy to climate change for smallholders in Santa Catarina, Southern Brazil by Vasconcelos, Ana Carolina Feitosa, Bonatti, Michelle, Schlindwein, Sandro L., D’Agostini, Luiz Renato, Homem, Larissa R., Nelson, Rohan

“…•Smallholder farmers in Santa Catarina have maintained landraces as an adaptation to drought.•These smallholders perceive an intensification of extreme weather…”
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A Participatory Assessment of NRM Capacity to Inform Policy and Practice: Cross-Scale Evaluation of Enabling and Constraining Factors by Leith, Peat, Jacobs, Brent, Brown, Peter R, Nelson, Rohan

“…The capacity of private landholders to manage natural resources is constrained and enabled by diverse, interconnected, and changing factors, which vary…”
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Agronomists use of PGR - a survey by Angela M Merry, Anna L Carew, Peat Leith, Rohan Nelson, Tina Botwright Acuna

“…The objective of this research was to improve our understanding of perceptions and use of plant growth regulators (PGRs) in cereal production in Australia and…”
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Agronomists use of PGR - a survey by Angela M Merry, Anna L Carew, Peat Leith, Rohan Nelson, Tina Botwright Acuna

“…The objective of this research was to improve our understanding of perceptions and use of plant growth regulators (PGRs) in cereal production in Australia and…”
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Actionable climate knowledge: from analysis to synthesis by Meinke, Holger, Nelson, Rohan, Kokic, Phil, Stone, Roger, Selvaraju, Ramasamy, Baethgen, Walter

“…The traditional reductionist approach to science has a tendency to create 'islands of knowledge in a sea of ignorance', with a much stronger focus on analysis…”
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