The social and economic impacts of drought

dc.contributor.authorEdwards, Benjamin
dc.contributor.authorGray, Matthew
dc.contributor.authorHunter, Boyd
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-19T01:54:41Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.date.updated2019-08-04T08:19:23Z
dc.description.abstractAlthough the environmental and economic impacts of drought have been widely studied, few large‐scale studies have examined the broader social impacts of drought. To fill this knowledge gap, the Australian Institute of Family Studies undertook the Regional and Rural Families Survey in 2007, when a significant part of Australia was experiencing a severe drought. This paper analyses that survey to measure the extent to which drought affects a range of economic, health and social outcomes. Drought is found to have a substantial negative economic and health impact on farmers and others employed in the agricultural sector. There is some evidence that groups that are not employed in agriculture are adversely affected, with a widespread loss of services in drought‐affected areas and some marginal labour market groups (e.g. carers) experiencing poor employment outcomes in a drought‐affected local economy. Policymakers need to take these impacts into account in designing effective responses to future droughts.
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dc.identifier.issn0157-6321en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/196391
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherWileyen_AU
dc.rights© 2018 Australian Social Policy Associationen_AU
dc.sourceAustralian Journal of Social Issuesen_AU
dc.titleThe social and economic impacts of droughten_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage31en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage22en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationEdwards, Benjamin, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationGray, Matthew, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationHunter, Boyd, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailu3887167@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidEdwards, Benjamin, u1023009en_AU
local.contributor.authoruidGray, Matthew, u3887167en_AU
local.contributor.authoruidHunter, Boyd, u9104845en_AU
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor160501 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policyen_AU
local.identifier.absseo960311 - Social Impacts of Climate Change and Variabilityen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu3102795xPUB910en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume54en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1002/ajs4.52en_AU
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-85058977886
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu3102795en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.wiley.com/en-gben_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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