Sustainability

RDA commissioned this report to contribute to the successful development of renewable energy projects within the Goldfields Esperance region.    Report Locationhttp://www.rdage.com.au/uploaded/files/client_added/Audit%20of%20Renewable%20Energy%20Projects%20WEB.pdf ....

Rural education and its policy agenda has for many decades primarily focussed upon responding to decline to 'keep things  going; keep things open'. While this has been understandable and much has been achieved, it is now opportune - essential? - that rural education and its leaders embrace a new challenge, sustainability, and use it to pursu ....

Australian agriculture both contributes to and is vulnerable to climate change. It is Australia‟s second highest greenhouse gas emitting sector, although this does not account for carbon sequestration, and is the sector most vulnerable to climate change with production expected to fall in the absence of effective abatement action. Sustainable f ....

Australian Water Resources 2005 is the National Water Commission's baseline assessment of Australia's water resources in 2004-05, the first year of the National Water Initiative. This assessment synthesises information at the national scale to increase the understanding of Australia's water resources, and identify knowledge gaps th ....

Conservation is a long-term investment, and strong property rights are the principal means by which this investment is secured. This paper seeks to illustrate how insecure property rights lead to unsustainable land management, while more secure property rights allow local users to capture the benefits of conservation-minded sustainable ....

Few studies have investigated pre-service teachers' beliefs and their knowledge of Education for Sustainability (EfS). Where they have, their perceptions of EfS and the instrumentality of their actions have not been linked to their knowledge of EfS. This matter is particularly important to prepare teachers to teach in Australian rural schools whi ....

The City of Greater Bendigo has sought community members' participation in the Bendigo Wellbeing Survey. The survey was anonymous and has been developed to find out community attitudes to a number of emerging health and wellbeing issues that affect the community, to develop an understanding of how community needs are changing and to identify oppo ....

The Victorian Government's population policy outlines the government's visions for 'growing' Victoria's population in an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable manner. The policy focuses on six key strategies. These are addressing low fertility rates by reducing obstacles to raising a family and providing more suppo ....

Global development of the biofuel sector is proceeding rapidly, driven by national policy mandates, government subsidies, and profit opportunities for farmers, agribusiness and energy companies. To date, most investment in - and dialogue on - biofuels has focused on large-scale production of liquid transport fuels. A smaller set of effo ....

Settling migrants and refugees in regional Australia has become a major policy purpose for Australian governments, both Commonwealth and state. Policies to attract migrants and humanitarian settlers to regional areas have been in place since the 1990s and are currently being refined and extended. Regional settlement serves a range ....

This evaluation report examines the impact of vocational education and training (VET), and its projectbased activities and partnerships, on the development of sustainable communities in regional Australia. Case studies were undertaken of 12 regions and two sets of performance indicators used. The study found that VET plays a critic ....

Analysis of the experiences of four farmer groups set up to learn how to jointly manage local natural resource issues shows that the groups are going though two simultaneous processes. One builds technical competency in natural resource management and the other is the underpinning social process that allows the groups to make decis ....

This report was commissioned by the NSW Fair Trading Advisory Council to consider successful examples of cooperative approaches to achieving rural renewal, and identify conditions under which cooperative solutions are most likely to be effective. The report draws on a range of literature on local economic development, community ren ....