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Forest owner intent: Harvesting Tasmania’s non-industrial private forests

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Dare, M.; Eversole, R.
  • Publisher: Institute for Regional Development
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Tasmania

Tasmania’s forests are an important economic and environmental resource for all Tasmanians, providing vital employment, recreation and conservation values. The importance of the Tasmanian private forest resource to the forest industry is increasing, with 44% of harvested timber sourced from private forests in 2011-2012. The proportion of ....

Freshwater Management and Allocation under the Resource Management Act 1991: Does First-in Firstserved Achieve Sustainable Management Principles?

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Brunette, Barry
  • Journal Name: New Zealand Journal of Environmental Law
  • Journal Number: 10
  • Country: New Zealand

This paper examines the current freshwater resource management regime and allocation of fresh water under the Resource Management Act 1991. It examines the concept of first-in first-served in the allocation of the resource and questions whether this approach achieves the sustainable management principles of the RMA. Balancing compe ....

From Disaster to Renewal: the centrality of business recovery to community resilience

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Regional Australia Institute
  • Country: Australia

The Regional Australia Institute (RAI) commissioned Griffith University to examine the experiences and learnings arising from the communities that have experienced, first-hand, the challenges of recovering from and adapting to the impact of disasters.    This research highlighted the strong sense of community in rural and re ....

From Pillar to Post? In search of the post-productivist countryside in Australia

  • Year: 2002
  • Author: Argent, Neil
  • Journal Name: Australian Geographer
  • Journal Number: Vol.33, No.1
  • Country: Australia

According to a growing number of commentators, the agricultural sectors and rural areas of advanced Western nations are experiencing a transition from productivism to post-productivism. In Britain and Western Europe, where this putative transition is most evident, the salient features of the shift include: the gradual removal of farm-level subsid ....

From Recovery to Renewal: case studies report

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: The Regional Australia Institute
  • Country: Australia

Regional Australia is a frequent victim of natural disasters yet there is limited information about how communities recover and whether we have the right policies in place to help them get back on their feet and looking to the future. This collection of case studies looks at the experiences of four different communities and their recovery process ....

Growing rice on the Murrumbidgee River: cultures, politics, and practices of food production and water use, 1900 to 2012

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Emily O'Gorman
  • Journal Name: Journal of Australian Studies
  • Journal Number: 37.1
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Published Location: United Kingdom
  • ISBN: 1444-3058
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

Within the context of contemporary concerns about ecological degradation and debates about water use for irrigation, this article examines how and why commercial rice growing began in the Murrumbidgee River region, New South Wales. It focuses on the crop's establishment and rapid expansion from approximately 1900 to 1960 and concentrates on three ....

Identifying and communicating current issues for regional Australia

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Charters, Kate; Vitartas, Peter; Waterman, Peter
  • Journal Name: Journal of Economic & Social Policy
  • Journal Number: Vol. 14, No. 3
  • Country: Australia

The development of policy affecting regional Australia is dependent on a range of information that is collected at many levels. For regional communities to prosper it is important that issues of importance and relevance to regions be collected and considered in the decision making processes of planners and policy makers. This paper ....

Identifying Priority Areas for Conservation Action in Agricultural Landscapes

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Bennett, Andrew F; MacNally, Ralph
  • Journal Name: Pacific Conservation Biology
  • Journal Number: Vol. 10, No. 2
  • Country: Australia

Farming for food, fibre and other products for human consumption is a dominant land-use throughout the world. Rural landscapes are also critical to the conservation of flora and fauna, and the maintenance of ecological processes on which all of life depends. In Australia, excessive clearing of native vegetation in the most producti ....

Impact of dense reservoir networks on water resources in semiarid environments

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: JC de Araujo, PHA Medeiros
  • Journal Name: Australian Journal of Water Resources
  • Journal Number: Vol. 17 No. 1
  • Publisher: Engineers Australia
  • Published Location: Barton, A.C.T.
  • ISBN: 1324-1583
  • Country: Brazil

The northeast of Brazil is a semiarid region where water scarcity is a major problem dealt with by the construction of dams. This policy generated a dense reservoir network in the region, resulting in a complex system. The impacts of the network have been assessed, and the results showed that the existence of a large number of small dams upstream ....

Impact of water scarcity in Australia on global food security in an era of climate change

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Qureshi, M Ejaz; Hanjra, Munir A; Ward, John
  • Journal Name: Food Policy
  • Journal Number: 38
  • Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd.
  • Published Location: Kidlington, United Kingdom
  • ISBN: 03069192
  • Country: Australia

Australia is a major food exporting country. Recent droughts reduced dryland farming production and the volume of water allocated to irrigated agriculture, with a resulting decline in aggregate agricultural production and exports. This paper analyses the possible impact of increased water scarcity on Australian agricultural production and the mag ....

Improving Capacity for the Kangaroo Industry to Benefit South Australian Regional Communities and Rangeland Environments

  • Year: 2007
  • Author: Thomsen, Dana A; Davies, Jocelyn
  • Journal Name: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, The
  • Journal Number: Vol. 13, No. 1
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: South Australia

Commercial kangaroo harvest contributes to sustainable regional communities and rangeland environments by bringing social, economic and environmental benefits. However, the South Australian kangaroo industry is not delivering these benefits to its potential capacity. South Australian harvest rates are lower than any of the other st ....

Improving Our Waterways

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Victorian Government, Department for Environment and Primary Industry
  • Publisher: Victorian Government, Department for Environment and Primary Industry
  • Published Location: East Melbourne
  • ISBN: 978-1-74287-892-8
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

The Strategy aims to maintain or improve the condition of our waterways so they can support environmental, social, cultural and economic values that are important to communities. It provides direction for regional decision-making, investment and management issues for waterways, as well as the roles and responsibilities of management agencies. R ....

Indigenous communities, conservation and the resource boom

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Nick McClean, Dawn Wells
  • Journal Name: Chain Reaction
  • Journal Number: Issue 117
  • Publisher: Friends of the Earth Australia
  • Published Location: Melbourne, Vic
  • ISBN: 0312-1372
  • Country: Australia

In the recent Boyer Lectures, Prof. Marcia Langton argued that mining is providing Indigenous communities with an opportunity to move out of the economic margins and grow into a new middle class of wealth and opportunity. But is mining the only way forward for Indigenous communities seeking to develop economically sustainable futures? And are sup ....

Indigenous Jurisdiction in Ontario: Land and Resource Development in Ardoch Algonquin First Nation Territory

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: McCarney, P.C.M.
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: Trent University (Canada)
  • Published Location: Canada
  • ISBN: 9780494682357
  • Country: Canada
  • State/Region: Ontario

This thesis investigates resource development involving Aboriginal communities, with a focus on Ontario, and the factors that generate conflict. It explores the frameworks governing mining and the environmental effects of these activities, with a specific focus on the relationships between these activities and Indigenous jurisdiction; t ....

Indigenous youth engagement in natural resource management in Australia and North America: A review

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Adrian Fordham and Jeremy Schwab
  • Country: Australia and North Africa

With the continuing high levels of Indigenous youth unemployment and low levels of school attendance among Indigenous youth, Indigenous communities and education systems are seeking new approaches to increase Indigenous youth participation in education, training and employment. This priority among Indigenous and government stakeholders is not res ....

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