Agriculture and Resilience in Australias North

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Provides a detailed insight into the resilience strategies of individuals operating small enterprises across large, sparsely-populated areas.Presents a detailed and comprehensive review of contemporary resilience discourse and adaptation strategies.Provides a succinct history of Northern Australia: a platform to better examine and understand the historic aspirations for northern development, how these differ from contemporary aspirations, and what lessons of history need to be remembered.Introduces the evolving concept of fairness is considered as a pivot for policy decision-making.

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Keith Noble trained as an Agricultural Extension Officer and worked in a range of industries before focusing on farming in Queenslands Wet Tropics. With cross-cultural communication skills and expertise, particularly with regional Australians and their communities, Keith is able to solve problems, identify opportunities, and provide solutions that build on the inherent strengths of people and their place. Keith chairs Terrain NRM, the Regional NRM body for Queenslands Wet Tropics bioregion. Tania Dennis is an architect from the top end of Australia, who has designed an impressive series of places and buildings that allow people access to healthy living. Winner of numerous architecture awards, including the National Award for Small Project Architecture and Commendation for Sustainable Architecture, Tanias projects respond to and offer positive built spaces that influence how communities function and are perceived. By working with local people, makers and artists, and using skills applied through local culture to architecture, interior and urban design, Tanias work offers intricate and insightful interpretations of place. Sarah Larkins is an academic general practitioner and Associate Dean of Research at the College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University.  Sarah has particular skills and experience in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research and health services as well as workforce research, and is an internationally recognised expert on social accountability in health professional education. Sarah is also Co-Director of the Anton Breinl Research Centre for Health Systems Strengthening, a centre of the Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine. Sarah's particular focus is on collaborating to improve equity in health care services for underserved populations, particularly rural, remote, Indigenous and tropical populations, and on training a health workforce with appropriate knowledge, attitudes and skills for this purpose

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