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    What's the story?: Fairness and equity in Australian climate change policy
    Fritze, Jess ( 2010)
    In order to progress action on climate change at both international and national levels it is critical to identify ways of distributing the costs of mitigation and adaptation which are commonly agreed to be fair and equitable. This study uses a discourse analysis approach to investigate how Australian advocacy organisations frame equity issues associated with climate change in the national policy context. Seven central and prominently used `story lines' about equity were identified within submissions to the Garnaut Climate Change Review and Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Green Paper by eight national advocacy organisations across the environment, social, international development and business sectors. These story lines represent competing attempts to shape Australia's policy response to climate change by focussing on different concepts of equity, as well as different scales and timeframes over which they can be applied. I found that these story lines are utilised by Three broad `discourse coalitions'. Story lines found to be shared across sectorial boundaries, which focus in particular on the need to provide financial assistance to low income households and industries affected by structural adjustment, indicate approaches to equity that are more likely to shape national climate change policy. I also found little reference to equitable adaptation to climate change within Australia. The limited use of story lines emphasising Australia's responsibility for strong mitigation action by key national stake holders highlights the difficulty of implementing internationally oriented preventative climate change policy at the national level.
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    Potential of Opportunistic Summer Cropping in Northern Victoria
    Abeysinghe Mudiyanselage, Subhashini Kumari ( 2010)
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    Aid & climate change adaptation in the small island states of the Pacific: the role of aid in climate change adaption and its effect on the adaptive capacity of small island states in the Pacific
    Chantra, Thitaporn V. ( 2010)
    This review will examine the role of aid in climate change adaptation and its effect on the adaptive capacity of small island states in the Pacific. It will present a brief introduction to the theoretical background underpinning adaptation and adaptive capacity before exploring the role of aid in the region. Subsequently, the impacts, costs, vulnerabilities and perceptions of climate change in the Pacific will be reviewed. Finally, there will be a discussion of the role of aid in climate change adaptation and its effect on adaptive capacity before concluding that, aid, through the prevention of autonomous decision-making, undermines the ability of governments to effectively steer adaptation to climate change. Concurrently, by funding climate change adaptation, aid reduces governments' ownership of the issue. Hence, while there is a role for aid to play in providing funding for climate change adaptation to SIS in the Pacific, the nature of aid in the region does not necessarily enhance adaptive capacity.