Droughts, floods and freshwater ecosystems : evaluating climate change impacts and developing adaptation strategies

Climate change is expected to have significant impacts on hydrologic regimes and freshwater ecosystems, and yet few basins have adequate numerical models to guide the development of freshwater climate adaptation strategies. Such strategies can build on existing freshwater conservation activities, and incorporate predicted climate change impacts. We illustrate this concept with three case studies. In the Upper Klamath Basin of the western USA, a shift in land management practices would buffer this landscape from a declining snowpack. In the Murray–Darling Basin of south-eastern Australia, identifying the requirements of flood-dependent natural values would better inform the delivery of environmental water in response to reduced runoff and less water. In the Savannah Basin of the south-eastern USA, dam managers are considering technological and engineering upgrades in response to more severe floods and droughts, which would also improve the implementation of recommended environmental flows. Even though the three case studies are in different landscapes, they all contain significant freshwater biodiversity values. These values are threatened by water allocation problems that will be exacerbated by climate change, and yet all provide opportunities for the development of effective climate adaptation strategies.

Visionnaire 2011

Visionnaire : A screening of postgraduate and masters films

Play ‘Crack the Sky’ - Steffen Hagen
The Priest - Benjamin Engeset
Sitcom Idiots Inc. - Mitchell McTaggart
Playing for it - Jacinta Adams, Alex Dance, Simone Berman, Esteban Ulloa, James Westland & Jarrod Watters
The boy who lived in the cemetery - Kerina Pereira, Emma Robinson, Tim Mitchell, Helin Kusman & Rebecca Drought
A Burger too far - Scott Burgess, Rhys Salmon, Karina McCowan, Tom McCann, Michael Hales & Aidan Truscott
Crimson Drive - Samantha Kuruvita, Shaun McFadyen, Vegard Dahle, Anja Aasheim, Shehan Vestrheim & Mikael Skramesto
Mikael - Kathleen Lynch, David McKinnar, David Davey, Alex Voltz, Gavin Juchnevicius & Shannon McFarland
A Slight Case of Death - David Laub, Tian Zhang, Janine Evans, Josh Horeau, Jacobo Arenas & Ben Teychenne
Neil - Courtney Gardiner, Rebecca Jacobs, Mark D’Alessandro, Jacob Williams, Trygve Nordhammer & Paul Mooney
Little Donnie Berner - Louise Walsh, Bhare Kesmaei, Matthew Skibicki, Krister Svensli & Nicholas Issell
Intervention - Georgie Thomas, Allison Flanagan, Allison Erlanger, Fredrik Waldeland, Torkild Ziegler & Brad Smith
Vicissitudes - Ben Mix, Sinead Lau, Claire Patterson, Joel Buncle, James Magree & Thomas Boarder

Transcendental Priority and Deleuzian Normativity. A reply to James Williams

I am grateful that someone whose work I greatly admire could be the philosopher to so eloquently and succinctly cut to the heart of the problem that I posed in the previous issue of Deleuze Studies. James Williams' critical reply leaves me, prima facie, confronted by a stark alternative: either I have misunderstood Deleuze, or I have illustrated problems and lacunae in Deleuze. I will suggest, however, that this is a false alternative, and that Williams' and my divergent accounts of The Logic of Sense – and even Deleuze's oeuvre as a whole – is better understood as a situation of ‘both/and’ rather than ‘either/or’, and hence that my interpretation of Deleuze isn't wrong, but necessarily iconoclastic.

Interview with James Kaiulo

James Kaiulo is a Papua New Guinean who studied at Macquarie University in 1985-1990. He studied on an Australian International Development Assistance Bureau (AIDAB) Scholarship and completed a PhD in Biological Sciences. The interview was conducted in English on 12 February 2015 by Dr. Jonathan Ritchie of Deakin University. This set comprises: an interview recording, and a timed summary.