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 ....
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 ....
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 ....
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 ....
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,
....
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 ....
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 ....
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 ....
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. ....
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 ....
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 ....
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 ....
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 ....
‘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 ....
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 ....