Geoff Kaine

1 Introduction Governments and communities have increasingly sought to halt or reverse the damaging effects of commercial agriculture on the environment resulting in increasing pressure on farmers to reconfigure their farm systems to ameliorate resource degradation. In addition, climate change is creating pressure to redesign farm systems to withstand more variable, and historically more extreme, seasonal conditions.

1. Introduction There is a consensus that, principally because of climate change, the frequency, severity, and complexity of natural hazards, such as floods, wildfires (also called ‘bushfires’ in Australia), and droughts, are increasing, while tropical cyclones (variously called ‘cyclones’, ‘hurricanes’ or ‘typhoons’, depending on location) are increasing in severity and reducing in frequency [,,].

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