Resilience, Adaptability, and Transformability in the Goulburn-Broken Catchment, Australia

TitleResilience, Adaptability, and Transformability in the Goulburn-Broken Catchment, Australia
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2009
AuthorsWalker B, Abel N, Anderies JM, Ryan P
JournalEcology and Society
Volume14
Issue1
Pagination12. [online] URL: http://www. ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss1/art12/
Source DocumentAccessible with appropriate permission
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The Goulburn Broken Catchment irrigation system, northern Victoria, Australia

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The GB catchment covers 2.1 million hectares in the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia. Aboriginal people lived in the catchment for millennia before colonization around 1830.  The upper, mountainous area of the catchment (900 000 ha) is more than 50% forested. The mid catchment (1 million ha) of riverine plains, low slopes and foothills has less than 20% of native vegetation cover remaining, which is highly fragmented, and the rest is used for dryland cropping and grazing. The Shepparton...
09 Aug 2016