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(Griffiths 2003: 16, cited in  \nMackinnon 2007: 73).  \nOverview  \nWe finalised our set of papers for this special edition of Australian Journal ofAdult Learning in late September 2009. We sought to emphasize and broaden our interest and concern about our Learning to be drier theme in this edition to the 77 per cent of Australians who live within 50 km of the Australian coast, the  \n424 Barry Golding and Coral Campbell Learning to be drier in the southern Murray-Darling Basin 425  \nmajority of whom also live in major cities and urban complexes (Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council, PMSEIC 2007: 3) . On 24 September 2009, a massive dust storm swept across New South Wales, dumping millions of tonnes of red dust on capital city areas of Australia unaccustomed to dust:  \nCanberra, Sydney and Brisbane. Snow, laced with the same red dust fell the same day in the Australian Alps, as attempts at breaking the historic and prolonged deadlock between the Australian federal government and states about water trading rules, as part of achieving a national ‘plan’ for the Murray Darling-Basin, again broke down. On 1 October 2009 the New South Wales Office of Water circulated a news release, making ‘an initial allocation [in the Murray Valley] to general security users of 1 per cent’ of their entitlements, and asking all water users ‘to be as conservative as possible with their use in what continues to be the worst drought ever experienced’.  \nEight researchers contributed team papers to this special edition from  \nthe four sites in the southern Murray-Darling Basin. Collectively, we bring wide and deep academic backgrounds, theoretical perspectivesand experiences from a wide range of work, research and life contexts, in mainly rural and regional Australia. While the research plan detailed below was essentially common, each two-person team grappled with and selected its own preferred combination of theoretical perspectives for their paper. The method and the qualitative (mainly interview) data were therefore treated somewhat differently across different sites. While the four site papers were researched, developed and written relatively independently by two-person teams, our joint, sixth paper attempts to ‘stand back’. In sum, we collaboratively seek to critically analyse and draw some conclusions about what might be common or different about the diverse approaches to learning about being drier, drawn from four very different land use contexts, in the same Basin, across three different Australian states.  \nIn this first paper we undertake a brief review of the literature related to the background of water in the southern Basin, and of the literature related to adult and community learning about water. We also describe the overall method of the project, in order to set up the context for the four, site-specific case studies that follow. These‘site’ papers are presented in terms of their perceived positions in the broad Basin or water catchment. The first site paper, Water, weeds and autumn leaves: learning to be drier in the Alpine region (Foley & Grace 2009) examines water-related learning issues in the Victorian Alpine region, particularly from the perspective of diverse community frames of reference (Bekhout, Hertin & Gann 2006) . In this alpine‘water harvesting’ area, the learning has to do with the many impacts of drying, aside from less snow and water runoff, particularly to do with wildfires, weeds, conservation and tourism.  \nT","cbCaioWfhDGqhVQv","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaioWfhDGqhVQv","pdf",268938,15,"English","# Overview\n## Special edition context and research aims\n## Method and comparative approach across sites\n## Site 1: Water, weeds and autumn leaves (Alpine region)\n## Site 2: Bearing the risk (midriver, Hay Shire)\n## Site 3: Riverland case study (Renmark)\n## Site 4: Learning to be drier in dryland country","[{\"question\":\"What is the focus of this special edition?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses on learning to be drier in the southern Murray-Darling Basin, examining adult and community learning around water under drought and drying conditions.\"},{\"question\":\"How were the papers in the edition developed?\",\"answer\":\"A common research plan guided the work, while each two-person team selected its own theoretical perspectives and treated qualitative (mainly interview) data somewhat differently by site.\"},{\"question\":\"Which sites are used for the case studies?\",\"answer\":\"The edition previews four site-specific papers: the Alpine region, midriver (Hay Shire), the Australian Riverland around Renmark, and a dryland area in the northern Wimmera and Southern Mallee.\"}]","Australian Journal of Adult Learning - Volume 49 - Issue 3 - November 2009 | PDF",1792077269,38]