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Ability of global climate models at a regional scale over Australia

• Author(s): Perkins, S.E., Pitman, A.J., Holbrook, N.J., McAneney, J.
• Published: 2007
• Publisher: DKCRC

We evaluate the coupled climate models used in the fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Our evaluation is focused on twelve regions of Australia for the daily simulation of precipitation, minimum temperature and maximum temperature. We base our evaluation on Probability Density Functions (PDFs). We introduce a simple quantitative measure…

Climate change and bet-hedging: interactions between increased soil temperatures and seed bank persistence

• Author(s): Ooi, M. K. J., Auld, T. D., Denham, A. J.
• Published: 2009
• Publisher: DKCRC

In order to predict the long-term consequences of climate change, it is necessary to link future environmental changes to mechanisms that control plant population processes. This information can then be incorporated into strategies to more accurately model climate change impacts on species or to estimate future extinction risks. We examined the impact of increased temperatures…

Where Inquiry Ends: The Peer Review Process and Indigenous Standpoints

• Author(s): Abu-Saad, Ismael
• Published: 2008
• Publisher: DKCRC

One of the ongoing struggles of indigenous people against colonization is to be able to exercise the fundamental right to represent themselves and to speak to the dominant society with their own voices and words, rather than to be spoken of or about. This essay discusses the mainstream academic peer review process and the suppression…

Back to the Future: State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2011

• Author(s): Peters-Stanley, M., Hamilton, K., Sjardin, M.
• Published: 2011
• Publisher: Report by Ecosystem Marketplace and Bloomberg New Energy Finance

For five years, Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace and Bloomberg New Energy Finance have published the State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets Reports to shed light on trading volumes, credit prices, project types, locations, and the motivations of buyers in this market. Every year’s marketplace seems more complex than the one before, as actors continually refine…

Community Participation Agreements: A model for welfare reform from community-based research

• Author(s): Smith, D.E
• Published: 2001
• Publisher: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences, Australian National University

In its June 2001 budget, the Federal Government announced a new framework for welfare reform, Australians Working Together. One component of the framework is the proposed development of Community Participation Agreements in remote Indigenous communities, to deal with welfare income payments, mutual obligation and related service delivery. This paper presents the results of community consideration…

Do weak AR4 models bias projections of future climate changes over Australia?

• Author(s): Perkins, S. E., Pitman, A. J.
• Published: 2009
• Publisher: DKCRC

Regional climate projections using climate models commonly use an “all-model” ensemble based on data sets such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 4th Assessment (AR4). Some regional assessments have omitted models based on specific criteria. We use a criteria based on the capacity of climate models to simulate the observed probability density function…

Marketing fine art on the Internet: Issue and ideas

• Author(s): Clarke, Irvine, Flaherty, Therese B
• Published: 2002
• Publisher: DKCRC

The fine art market has grown into a $17bn industry. Yet only recently have art dealers and art buyers discovered the Internet as a viable marketing tool. As art galleries begin to move online, a fundamental question arises: are the major stakeholders willing to use this non-traditional means to buy and sell art? This paper…

Good Learning = A Good Life: Mathematics Transformation in Remote Indigenous Communities

• Author(s): Jorgensen, Robyn, Grootenboer, Peter, Sullivan, Peter
• Published: 2010
• Publisher: ABC Radio National

The performance of Australian Indigenous learners is a national concern. The federal government has recognised that health and education are keys to closing the gap between the achievement of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people and has made health and education a national priority. Through its ‘Closing the Gap’ initiative, the Rudd government is allocating significant amounts…

Climate change-induced economic impacts on tourism destinations: the case of Australia

• Author(s): Pham, Tien Duc, Simmons, David Gerard, Spurr, Ray
• Published: 2010
• Publisher: Routledge

Although the economic impacts of climate change have been analysed in Australia at the national level, impacts of climate change via tourism activities have been overlooked. It is likely that the induced economic impact through tourism activities is much more than realised, particularly at the regional/destination level. This paper examines the economic flow-on effects of…

What does it mean when climate models agree? A case for assessing independence among general circulation models

• Author(s): Pirtle, Zachary, Meyer, Ryan, Hamilton, Andrew
• Published: 2010
• Publisher: DKCRC

Climate modelers often use agreement among multiple general circulation models (GCMs) as a source of confidence in the accuracy of model projections. However, the significance of model agreement depends on how independent the models are from one another. The climate science literature does not address this. GCMs are independent of, and interdependent on one another,…