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Managing natural resources in a variable and changing climate

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Howden M
  • Publisher: Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

This fact sheet briefly describes a research project investigating the relationship between climate variability and natural resource management (NRM) practices and outcomes in agricultural regions in the Condamine region Qld, northern Victoria, and the Wallatin catchment WA. The project aims to analyse how climate has been changing ....

Managing our big rivers

  • Year: 2013
  • Journal Name: Public Administration Today
  • Journal Number: Issue 36
  • Publisher: Institute of Public Administration Australia, ACT Division
  • Published Location: Belconnen, A.C.T.
  • ISBN: 1832-0066
  • Country: Australia

The controversial Murray-Darling Basin Plan is now law. To open this series on water in our special 'Sustainability and Environment' edition of Today we invited the Murray-Darling Basin Authority to report progress. Report Locationhttp://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=642225176371255;res=IELBUS ....

Managing pastoral country

  • Year: 2002
  • Author: Land, Water and Wool
  • Publisher: Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Country: Australia

Land, Water and Wool is a new partnership between Australian Wool Innovation Ltd and Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation (LWRRDC). This fact sheet briefly describes the Managing Pastoral Country subprogram which aims to work with the wool industry in the pastoral zone to develop, test and implement best pr ....

Managing the bush: recent research findings from the EA/LWRRDC National Remnant Vegetation R&D Program

  • Year: 2000
  • Author: Williams J
  • Publisher: Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 0642760403
  • Country: Australia

In 1994, a research and development national program was established by the Australian Nature Conservation Agency (now part of the Biodiversity Group of Environment Australia (EA)) and Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation (LWRRDC) to devise improved methods of managing bushland. The EA and LWRRDC National R ....

Managing the NSW Marine Estate: Purpose, Underpinning Principles and Priority Setting

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Marine Estate Management Authority
  • Publisher: New South Wales Government
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

Almost six million people live within 50 kilometres of the NSW coastline. They and the rest of the NSW community plus the millions of domestic and international visitors enjoy the significant natural assets of the Marine Estate and generate billions of dollars each year for NSW and the Australian community. There are many varied commercial, ....

Mapping regional capacity

  • Year: 2002
  • Author: Webb TJ; Curtis A
  • Publisher: Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Country: Australia

The final report of a project to develop a method for mapping regional capacity to adopt more sustainable natural resource management presents a framework for the characterisation of regional community capacity for sustainable resource management. The framework identifies ten elements of capacity that span human capital, produced e ....

Mapping regional metabolism: a decision-support tool for natural resource management

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: Birkeland J; Schoonveldt J
  • Publisher: Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 0642761078
  • Country: Australia

Natural resource management (NRM) at the regional level is an essential step towards sustainability and the revitalisation of rural and regional Australia. There is, however, a critical need for improved NRM decision making processes and techniques if those goals are to be realised. This report explores the potential to use materia ....

Mechanisms for improved integration of biodiversity conservation in regional NRM planning within Australia: literature review

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: Lowe K; Fitzsimons J; Straker A; Gleeson T
  • Publisher: Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Country: Australia

A literature review prepared as part of a project to identify how the Commonwealth might assist regions in integrating biodiversity conservation into catchment and regional planning aimed to identify a set of criteria for evaluating effective mechanisms. In particular, the review considered the effects of making catchment and sub-c ....

Mental Models: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis of Theory and Methods

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Jones, N. A., H. Ross, T. Lynam, P. Perez and A. Leitch.
  • Journal Name: Ecology and Society
  • Journal Number: Vol.16, No.1
  • Country: Australia

Mental models are personal, internal representations of external reality that people use to interact with the world around them. They are constructed by individuals based on their unique life experiences, perceptions, and understandings of the world. Mental models are used to reason and make decisions and can be the basis of individual behaviors. ....

Monitoring and evaluation trials, Victoria region, phase 1 report

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: National Land and Water Resources Audit (NLWRA), Canberra; Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment, Melbourne
  • Publisher: National Land and Water Resources Audit
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

An assessment of proposed National Land and Water Resources Audit (NLWRA) Monitoring and Evaluation Working Group (MEWG) indicators for reporting on natural resource condition and trend considered their effectiveness in the context of Victorian Catchment Management Authority (CMA) regions. The review highlighted a number of broader ....

Native vegetation: public conservation on private land: cost of forgone rangelands development in southern and western Queensland

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Davidson A; Beare S; Gooday P; Kokic P; Lawson K; Elliston L
  • Publisher: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics
  • Published Location: Canberra
  • ISBN: 1920925686
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

The Productivity Commission inquiry in 2004 into native vegetation and biodiversity concluded that the current regulatory approaches to native vegetation management were having a negative impact on some private landholders by imposing significant costs, preventing property development, preventing land use change to more profitable ....

Natural advantage: a blueprint for a sustainable Australia

  • Year: 2000
  • Author: Krockenberger M; Kinrade P; Thorman R
  • Publisher: Australian Conservation Foundation
  • Published Location: Fitzroy VIC
  • ISBN: 0858021579
  • Country: Australia

A blueprint for sustainable management in Australia outlines the challenges and opportunities faced, and provides a strategic framework for using the environment to drive the economy. The key initiatives explored include development of a national approach to sustainability reform, a long term commitment to land and water repair, en ....

Natural resource management in the Burdekin Dry Tropics: social and economic issues

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: Greiner R (CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Townsville); Stoeckl N (CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Townsville); Stokes C (CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Townsville); Herr A (CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Townsville); Bachmaier J (CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems,
  • Publisher: CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems
  • Published Location: Townsville Qld
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

A review of social and economic constraints to sustainable natural resources management (NRM) in the Burdekin Dry Tropics Qld identified a range of policy directions and actions to encourage wider adoption of sustainable NRM practices. In particular, the research identified the need to manage the social and economic pressures and d ....

New South Wales Biosecurity Strategy

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Biosecurity NSW
  • Publisher: Department of Primary Industries, NSW
  • ISBN: 978 1 74256 308
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

‘Biosecurity’ means protecting the economy, environment and community from the negative impacts of pests, diseases and weeds. Biosecurity is vital for the health, well being and prosperity of everyone in NSW. The NSW Biosecurity strategy sets the overall direction for the management of animal and plant pests, diseases and ....

No more sun shades, please: Experiences of corporate social responsibility in remote Australian mining communities

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Bice, Sara
  • Journal Name: Rural Society
  • Journal Number: Vol. 22, No. 2
  • Publisher: eContent Management Pty Ltd
  • Published Location: Maleny, Qld.
  • ISBN: 1037-1656
  • Country: Australia

 Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is often touted as the solution to social and environmental ills associated with Australia's mining boom. This paper extends prior research concerning mining's social impacts and related CSR programmes by investigating the emergence of new institutional arrangements in pre-existing rural communities whi ....

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