Loss of Resilience, Crisis, and Institutional Change: Lessons from an Intensive Agricultural System in Southeastern Australia

TitleLoss of Resilience, Crisis, and Institutional Change: Lessons from an Intensive Agricultural System in Southeastern Australia
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2006
AuthorsAnderies JM, Ryan P, Walker BH
JournalEcosystems
Volume9
Pagination865–878
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...
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