Adaptation knowledge for New Zealand's primary industries: Known, not known and needed

Cradock-Henry, Nicholas A.; Flood, Stephen; Buelow, Franca; Blackett, Paula; Wreford, Anita

Adaptation knowledge for New Zealand's primary industries: Known, not known and needed

dc.contributor.author	Cradock-Henry, Nicholas A.
dc.contributor.author	Flood, Stephen
dc.contributor.author	Buelow, Franca
dc.contributor.author	Blackett, Paula
dc.contributor.author	Wreford, Anita
dc.contributor.funder	Ministry for Primary Industries	en
dc.date.accessioned	2019-09-24T11:23:40Z
dc.date.available	2019-09-24T11:23:40Z
dc.date.issued	2019
dc.date.updated	2019-09-24T10:30:05Z
dc.description.abstract	Climate sensitive primary industries including pastoral farming, high-value horticulture and viticulture are central to Aotearoa-New Zealand’s economy. While advances have been made in understanding the impacts and implications of climate change critical knowledge gaps remain, particularly for adaptation. This study develops and applies a novel methodology to identify and characterise adaptation knowledge for primary industries. The basis for the review is ten years’ of research and action under the Sustainable Land Management and Climate Change (SLMACC) program, supplemented with a systematic review of the published literature. Reports (n = 32) and literature (n = 22) are reviewed and assessed using the Adaptation Knowledge Cycle to characterise analytical and empirical foci. The detailed assessment of knowledge for Impacts, Implications, Decisions or Actions enables a robust and rigorous assessment of existing knowledge, identifies critical research gaps and emerging needs. Results show research to date has focused almost exclusively on understanding the impact of climate variability and extremes on land management. There are significant empirical (e.g. location and sector) and methodological (e.g. integrated assessments, scenarios, and vulnerability assessment) gaps, for at risk regions and sectors, and limited understanding of the decisions and actions necessary to enable successful adaptation. To inform future adaptation planning, additional work is required to better understand the implications, decision-making processes and obstacles to action. More detailed understanding of location-, season-, time- and sector-specific responses to climate change is also necessary. Findings advance our understanding of adaptation knowledge and reflect on diversity of information necessary to enable and sustain resilient rural futures and provide a conceptual and methodological basis for similar assessments elsewhere.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	Ministry for Primary Industries (Sustainable Land Management and Climate Change)	en
dc.description.status	Peer reviewed	en
dc.description.version	Published Version	en
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	en
dc.identifier.articleid	100190	en
dc.identifier.citation	Cradock-Henry, N. A., Flood, S., Buelow, F., Blackett, P. and Wreford, A. (2019) 'Adaptation knowledge for New Zealand’s primary industries: Known, not known and needed', Climate Risk Management, 25: 100190, (13pp.) DOI: 10.1016/j.crm.2019.100190	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1016/j.crm.2019.100190	en
dc.identifier.endpage	13	en
dc.identifier.issn	2212-0963
dc.identifier.journaltitle	Climate Risk Management	en
dc.identifier.startpage	1	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10468/8606
dc.identifier.volume	25	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Elsevier	en
dc.relation.uri	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212096319300427
dc.rights	© 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0/).	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0/	en
dc.subject	Adaptation science	en
dc.subject	Climate change	en
dc.subject	Aotearoa-New Zealand primary industries	en
dc.title	Adaptation knowledge for New Zealand's primary industries: Known, not known and needed	en
dc.type	Article (peer-reviewed)	en