Bearing the Risk: Learning to Be Drier Mid-River

Autor/inn/en	Golding, Barry; Angwin, Jennifer
Titel	Bearing the Risk: Learning to Be Drier Mid-River
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 49 (2009) 3, S.472-496 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1443-1394
Schlagwörter	Land Use; Foreign Countries; Government Role; Water; Public Policy; Rural Areas; Ecology; Conservation (Environment); Adult Learning; Case Studies; Climate; Stakeholders; Informal Education; Nonformal Education; Interviews; Adults; Coping; Risk; Access to Education; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bodennutzung; Ausland; Wasser; Öffentliche Ordnung; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Ökologie; Conservation; Environment; Konservierung; Bewahung; Umwelt; Adulte education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Klima; Informelle Bildung; Nichtformale Bildung; Non-formal education; Non formal education; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Bewältigung; Risiko; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Australien
Abstract	This paper investigates learning related to the phenomena of drying over the past decade in the southern Murray-Darling Basin in Australia, as perceived in a mid-river site within the western Riverina of New South Wales, Australia. The insights from audio-recorded interviews, with a wide range of adults across the water-dependent community, mostly relate to the catchment of the Murrumbidgee River in the Shire of Hay. Our overarching theme is about how people are learning about, understanding and bearing the risks, of what is widely regarded as a prolonged drought. For some, the learning is about how to cope with less water in the Basin, and particularly from the river, as predicted in the climate change literature. Our narrative-based, empirical research registers the felt experience of those located, in situ, as a severe "irrigation drought" extends into 2009. The paper dramatises the many obstacles to learning how to think and act differently, in difficult and rapidly changing ecosocial circumstances. (Contains 3 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10