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Acknowledging the uncertainty of climate change and the future, DPI VCCAP is using Scenario Planning techniques to develop holistic scenarios describing plausible alternative futures for Victorian primary industries under climate change, that describe the evolution of the social, economic, political, technological and ecological drivers for change from both global and local perspectives. These scenarios will be developed in close collaboration with key representatives of the agricultural industries and regional planners of the pilot region to provide a guiding and testing tool for strategic planning.
| Scenario Project Sheet July 2009 Agriculture functions as a complex, highly interconnected industry. It has many players in production, processing, transport, regulation and marketing. Agriculture supports regional communities, sells into a global market and provides a share of national export income. Climate, trade agreements, consumer preferences, input costs, currency values and government policies are evolving rapidly. How do we intelligently plan for the future in an environment which has considerable uncertainty? Given these challenges, the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) has engaged in the Victorian Climate Change Adaptation Program (VCCAP) to provide guidance to government policy and regional decision-makers on effective responses to change in climate and other drivers. |  | | |  Scenario Project Sheet July 2009 - (PDF 135KB) |
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Contact: Leon Soste
Email: DPI.VCCAP@dpi.vic.gov.au
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This document was last reviewed on 28/01/2010