Book chapter
A rural bioeconomic strategy to redefine primary production systems within the Australian innovation system: Productivity, management, and impact of climate change
Agriculture Management for Climate Change, pp.55-70
Nova Science Publishers
2015
Abstract
This chapter explores components of a rural research, development, and extension strategy that amalgamates the primary industries with a larger class of broad-spectrum biological science and technological capability in Australia. Innovative enabling biotechnologies are likely to continue to alter approaches to tackling regionally-specific problems that link non-biological and biological resource use and production efficiency, including climate change. Such linkages will require a diverse scientific capability derived from research fields of science and technology currently external to conventional primary industry capabilities. However, capturing potential benefits of transformational technologies requires a progressive approach to investments in higher education, business, and government. This chapter asserts three crucial non-exclusive investment drivers are receiving insufficient consideration in the rural research, development, and extension in what is termed the "rural bioeconomy": human collaborative knowledge, sustainable production capability, and, cross sectoral transformational science and policy. Discussed are some policy and institutional options to assist convergence of these three non-exclusive drivers to enhance collaborative capabilities in a rural context.
Details
- Title
- A rural bioeconomic strategy to redefine primary production systems within the Australian innovation system: Productivity, management, and impact of climate change
- Authors/Creators
- M.P. McHenry (Author/Creator)
- Contributors
- M.P. McHenry (Editor)S.N. Kulshreshtha (Editor)S. Lac (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Agriculture Management for Climate Change, pp.55-70
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers
- Identifiers
- 991005542841907891
- Copyright
- © 2015 Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Harry Butler Institute; School of Engineering and Information Technology
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publisher URL
- https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=55193
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