@article{Beilin:347023,
      recid = {347023},
      author = {Beilin, Ruth and Hill, Serenity and Sysak, Tamara},
      title = {Where Is the Coherent Response to Climate Change and Peak  Oil? An Examination of Policy and Practice Affecting  Agriculture in Regional Australia},
      journal = {International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and  Food},
      address = {2011},
      month = {May},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {Climate change and peak oil will have profound impacts on  food production across the world. This article uses  selected documents from the agriculture policy arena to  explore international, national and local scale responses  and recommendations. Using two regional Australian  case-studies, we describe local farming practice. We find  that while seeking to be adaptive overall, farm decisions  are, necessarily complex, often limited and result in both  short- and long-term perverse outcomes. This includes  changes previously considered as innovative or adaptive  responses to climate change or energy constraint. By  contrast, these responses now may appear reactive and  maladaptive. We argue that the maladaptive responses are  most likely to continue because of a lack of policy  coherence and integration across scales. Farm  experimentation and improvization requires supportive  coherent policies. Good on-ground decision-making requires  clear signals that support change beyond current variations  within a ‘business as usual’ trajectory.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/347023},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.48416/ijsaf.v18i3.245},
}