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Can the participatory evaluation of new communication technology initiatives assist in building sustainable and inclusive rural communities?

  • Year: 2002
  • Author: Lennie, J; Simpson, L; Hearn, G
  • Journal Name: 2002 International Evaluation Conference: Evaluation in Practice - Making a Difference
  • Country: Australia

This presentation first addresses the role of new communication and information technologies (C and ITs) in building sustainable and inclusive rural communities; factors in community adoption and use of C and IT initiatives; the role of participatory planning and evaluation in making C and IT initiatives more sustainable and succes ....

Canadian health system reforms: lessons for Australia?

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Marchildon, GP
  • Journal Name: Australian Health Review
  • Journal Number: Vol. 29, No. 1
  • Country: Canada, Australia

This paper analyses recent health reform agenda in Canada. From 1988 until 1997, the first phase of reforms focused on service integration through regionalisation and a rebalancing of services from illness care to prevention and wellness. The second phase, which has been layered onto the ongoing first phase, is concerned with fisca ....

Carbon, biodiversity and regional natural resource planning: towards high impact next generation plans

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Allan Dale, James McKee, Karen Vella & Ruth Potts
  • Journal Name: Australian Planner
  • Journal Number: 50.4
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Published Location: United Kingdom
  • ISBN: 2150-6841
  • Country: Australia

Given the increased importance of adaptation debates in global climate negotiations, pressure to achieve biodiversity, food and water security through managed landscape-scale adaptation will likely increase across the globe over the coming decade. In parallel, emerging market-based, terrestrial greenhouse gas abatement programs present a real opp ....

Climate adaption in regional mining values chains: A case-study of the Goldfields-Esperance Region, Western Australia

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Barton Loechel, Jane Hodgkinson, Suzanne Prober and Kieren Moffatt
  • Publisher: CSIRO, Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia, Goldfields Environmental Management Group
  • Published Location: Pullenvale, Western Australia
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Western Australia

Climate change poses a potential range of threats and opportunities for mining regions around Australia. Recent studies have suggested that mine operations as well as the related infrastructure, businesses and communities associated with mining, may be affected by flooding, drought, bushfires, storms, and sea level rise.  This case study so ....

Climate change adaptation in the Murray-Darling Basin: Reducing resilience of wetlands with engineering

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Pittock, J; Finlayson, C M
  • Journal Name: Water and Climate: Policy Implementation Challenges; Proceedings of the 2nd Practical Responses to Climate Change Conference
  • Publisher: Engineers Australia
  • Published Location: Barton, A.C.T.
  • ISBN: 9780858259119
  • Country: Australia

Conflict over water allocations and the need to adapt to climate change in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin has resulted in decision makers choosing engineering interventions to use water more 'efficiently' for wetlands conservation. We review a range of policy and infrastructure adaptation measures implemented in the Basin by governments. The wa ....

Climate change and food security: Health impacts in developed countries

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Iain R. Lake, Lee Hooper, Asmaa Abdelhamid, Graham Bentham, Alistair B.A. Boxall, Alizon Draper, Susan Fairweather-Tait, Mike Hulme, Paul R. Hunter, Gordon Nichols and Keith W. Waldron
  • Journal Name: Environmental Health Perspectives
  • Journal Number: Vol. 120 No. 11
  • Publisher: Brogan and Partners
  • ISBN: 00916765

Background: Anthropogenic climate change will affect global food production, with uncertain consequences for human health in developed countries. Objectives: We investigated the potential impact of climate change on food security (nutrition and food safety) and the implications for human health in developed countries. Methods: Expert input and s ....

Climate Change and Regional Communities: Towards Sustainable Community Behaviour in Ballarat

  • Year: 2010
  • Author: Braun, Patrice; McEachern, Steven
  • Journal Name: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, The
  • Journal Number: Vol. 16, No. 1
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

This paper presents the findings of two surveys conducted on behalf of BREAZE, a Renewable Energy and Zero Emissions community group in the Ballarat region. The research presented in this study was designed to identify the group's effectiveness in supporting its members to achieve zero emissions. Another objective of the research w ....

Coastal Management and the Environmental Compensation Challenge

  • Year: 2000
  • Author: Turner, Stephanie
  • Journal Name: New Zealand Journal of Environmental Law
  • Journal Number: 4
  • Country: New Zealand

Coastal ecosystems around New Zealand are under increasing pressure as a result of the growing use of coastal areas and resources. Recognition of the environmental costs of coastal use and development has led resource managers, scientists and communities to increasingly consider the possibility of compensating for adverse impacts w ....

Commercial and Sustainable Use of Wildlife -Suggestions to improve conservation, land management and rural economies

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: Rosie Cooney
  • Publisher: Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation
  • Published Location: Barton, ACT
  • ISBN: 1741517885
  • Country: Australia

Commercial sustainable use of wildlife has received increasing attention in recent years, both internationally and in Australia, as a tool to achieve both improved conservation and land management outcomes and support diverse, resilient rural economies and societies. While the concept remains relatively unfamiliar in Australia, a wide range of fo ....

Common hydrological features in Australian irrigation areas: scoping study

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Fuller D; Ife D; Watkins N; McLean A
  • Publisher: Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Country: Australia

A scoping study examining the best way to present material on the common hydro-geological systems where irrigation areas are situated and which hydro-geological systems should be represented concluded that there is potential and support for a project which increases awareness of the similarities and differences across irrigation re ....

Community engagement: putting people first in building sustainable community futures: three case studies of innovative engagement practice

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Martin, Amanda; Stewart, R
  • Journal Name: International Conference on Engaging Communities
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

Three communities, the small rural shire of Nebo Shire in Central Queensland, the remote area council of Lockhart River in Cape York and the large, urban Ipswich City Council in South East Queensland, used various strategies to engage councillors, council staff and the community. These case studies highlight the challenges of desig ....

Community Sustainability in Rural Australia

  • Year: 2003
  • Editors: Cocklin, Chris; Alston, Margaret
  • Publisher: Centre for Rural Social Research, Charles Sturt University
  • Published Location: Wagga Wagga, NSW
  • Country: Australia

In 2000, the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia was awarded a grant by the Australian Research Council under its Learned Academies Special Projects Scheme to carry out research on 'The Sustainability of Australian Rural Communities'. Six university-based teams from across Australia convened in Canberra in February 2001 to develop a share ....

Community-based resource planning: studies from Zimbabwe and Northern Australia

  • Year: 2004
  • Editors: Thwaites RN; Norman PL
  • Publisher: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Country: Zimbabwe, Australia
  • State/Region: Northern Australia

A project was undertaken to enhance the capacity of resource managers, in particular the local occupants, to identify, plan and implement sustainable natural resource management options in tropical woodlands of Zimbabwe and northern Australia. The project involved the collaboration of government, non-government institutions and com ....

Community, Sustainability and Participation: Form-function Dilemmas in Tasmanian State-local Partnerships

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: Crowley, Kate
  • Journal Name: Public Policy
  • Journal Number: Vol. 3, No. 1
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Tasmania

The Tasmanian state-local partnership agreements program, instituted in 1998 by the late Premier Jim Bacon, is proving an innovation in the reorientation of inter-governmental affairs. The partnerships established thus far have totally transformed state-local relations. Indeed the program has been so successfully implemented that i ....

Creating a sustainable Europe: The role of the European Union structural funds

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Christopoulou, Ioli
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University)
  • Published Location: United States -- Massachusetts
  • ISBN: 9781267027306
  • Country: Europe

The aim of this research project is to examine the effectiveness of the structural funds in assisting the transition of the European Union (EU) toward sustainable development. Specifically, the study examines how cohesion policy has responded to the sustainable development imperative and to the requirement of environmental integration. ....

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