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RDA Moreton Bay Sustainable Business Strategy

  • Year: 2013
  • Journal Name: RDA Moreton Bay
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

With a growing population the RDA Moreton Bay busniess strategy aims to help businesses build resilience and sustainability. This project was designed to deliver a Sustainable Business Strategy through a process of auditing current levels of sustainable business practice, consulting with key stakeholders, preparing a Moreton Bay Sustainable Busin ....

RDA Moreton Bay Sustainable Business Strategy

  • Year: 2013
  • Publisher: RDA Moreton Bay
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

With a growing population the RDA Moreton Bay busniess strategy aims to help businesses build resilience and sustainability. This project was designed to deliver a Sustainable Business Strategy through a process of auditing current levels of sustainable business practice, consulting with key stakeholders, preparing a Moreton Bay Sustainable Busin ....

RDA Peel Report on Scenario Planning Workshops including a strategic conversation conducted for Regional Development Australia

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Emeritus Professor Jo Barker
  • Publisher: RDA PEEL, Western Australia
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Western Australia

This report outlines the scenario/strategic thinking processes conducted for RDA Peel up to the formation of skeletal scenarios. The procedure provided the participants with an understanding of scenario planning; tem interaction through a very participatory process; and a deeper understanding of some of the factors affecting the region in which t ....

RDA Riverina Regional Plan 2013-2016

  • Year: 2013
  • Publisher: RDA Riverina
  • Published Location: Wagga Wagga, NSW

The RDA Riverina Regional Plan is a road map for the future development of the Riverina region. Through discussions and consultations with various stakeholders across the region and the review of existing planning documents a footprint for action has been developed. The key emerging priorities and issues are:  Infrastructure development- ....

RDA Tasmania Regional Plan 2013-2014

  • Year: 2013
  • Publisher: RDA Tasmania

The RDA Tasmania Regional Plan is reviewed annually to update profiling information and revise RDA Tasmania's strategic direction and regional priorities. Draft priorities are shared with a wide range of stakeholders to invite input and this feedback is incorporated throughout the drafting process. Five broad priorities have been identified by R ....

RDA Wide Bay Burnett Resource Sector Workforce Mobility Study 2013

  • Year: 2013
  • Publisher: RDA Wide Bay Burnett
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

Regional Development Australia Wide Bay Burnett (RDA WBB) in collaboration with Local Government Authorities and key regional stakeholders is leading the way with a focused approach to Resource Sector opportunities and their economic, social and community impacts. The coordination of stakeholders which brings together industry development, social ....

Readying Health Services for Climate Change: A Policy Framework for Regional Development

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Bell, E.
  • Journal Name: American Journal of Public Health
  • Journal Number: Vol.101, No.5
  • Publisher: American Public Health Association
  • Published Location: Washington, United States
  • Country: United States

Climate change presents the biggest threat to human health in the 21st century. However, many public health leaders feel ill equipped to face the challenges of climate change and have been unable to make climate change a priority in service development. I explore how to achieve a regionally responsive whole-of-systems approach to climat ....

Recognition and Reward of Local Government Sun-safety Initiatives in North Queensland: An Environmental Health Promotion Pilot

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: Bartlett, Lynne; Harrison, Simone; Taylor, Christine
  • Journal Name: Environmental Health,
  • Journal Number: Vol. 8, No. 4
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

North Queensland has the highest rates of skin cancer in the world. Local Government Authorities (LGAs) are ideally placed to provide recreational facilities that protect the population from ultraviolet radiation. In 2005, consistent with outcomes proposed within the Queensland Skin Cancer Prevention Strategic Plan 2001-2005, the N ....

Recommendations keynote : communique and Conference recommendations

  • Year: 2007
  • Author: Fitzpatrick, Lesley
  • Journal Name: 9th National Rural Health Conference
  • Publisher: National Rural Health Alliance
  • Published Location: Deakin West, ACT
  • Country: Australia

The Conference's 18 priority recommendations are presented. Two of the issues have been included in each of the nine biannual conferences. This Conference agrees that Indigenous life expectancy is still unacceptably low, and that there is still insufficient focus in national health research efforts on rural and remote communities. ....

Reducing Victoria's Bushfire Risk on Public Land

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Victorian Government, Department of Environment and Primary Industries
  • Publisher: Victorian Government, Department of Environment and Primary Industries
  • Published Location: East Melbourne
  • ISBN: 978-1-74287-971-0
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

This report details the performance of Department of Environment and Primary Industries’ Fuel Management Program in 2012–13. The Fuel Management Program is one part of the Victorian Government’s commitment to managing bushfire risk. Fuel management refers to activities DEPI, and its partner agencies, carry out on public lan ....

Reducing Vulnerability of Agriculture and Forestry to Climate Variability and Change: Workshop Summary and Recommendations

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Salinger, M J; Sivakumar, M V K; Motha, R
  • Journal Name: Climatic Change
  • Journal Number: Vol.70, No.1-2
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • Published Location: Dordrecht, Netherlands

The International Workshop on Reducing Vulnerability of Agriculture and Forestry to Climate Variability and Climate Change held in Ljubljana, Solvenia, from 7 to 9 October 2002 addressed a range of important issues relating to climate variability, climate change, agriculture, and forestry including the state of agriculture and forestry ....

Regional Climate Change Decision Framework

  • Year: Various
  • Author: Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: South Australia

An assessment of key natural resource management systems that were vulnerable to climate change. This resource provides a wealth of publications on regional issues, including specific reports relating to climate change in Regional Australia. As a collection, these publications provide valuable information on regional climate change and adaptat ....

Regional patterns of erosion and sediment and nutrient transport in the Goulburn and Broken River catchments, Victoria

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: DeRose R; Prosser IP; Wilkinson LJ; Hughes AO; Young WJ
  • Publisher: CSIRO Land and Water
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

A project conducted as part of a National Land and Water Resources Audit (NLWRA) project for disseminating NLWRA nutrient and sediment budget information to catchment management agencies used SedNet modelling to determine the delivery of sediment and nutrients within the combined Goulburn and Broken River catchments, Vic. Specific ....

Regional Universities Network: Engaging with regions, building a stronger nation

  • Year: 2013
  • Journal Number: Vol. 1
  • Publisher: Regional Universities Network
  • Published Location: Canberra ACT
  • Country: Australia

In support of RUN’s commitment to strengthening the contributions of member universities to regional development, the Network commissioned a study to investigate the full scope of the member universities' engagement with their regions and associated contributions, including social, cultural, environmental and economic aspects. Report Location ....

Regional Wellbeing Survey 2013

  • Year: 2014
  • Author: Jacki Schirmer and Helen Berry
  • Publisher: MDBFutures and University of Canberra
  • Country: Australia

The wellbeing of people living in rural and regional areas of Australia is influenced by numerous factors, many of which are different to those experienced by people living in cities. Things like drought, floods, changing environmental health, new industries, changing land uses and migration of residents can all affect the wellbeing of rural and ....

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