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Social and Institutional Research Program Publications

Australia's Farmers: Past, Present and Future

Research project number DAV41 of the Social and Institutional Research Program of Land & Water Australia.

Australia's Northern Rivers

Better information for beter management

A fact sheet produced by NAILSMA (Northern Australia Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance) and LWA about the management of Austrlaia’s northern water-ways.

Biodiversity conservation in regional NRM planning

Policy Sheet: Research project VRA1 of Social and Institutional Research Program

Biodiversity conservation in regional NRM planning

Fact Sheet: Research project VRA1 of Social and Institutional Research Program

Biodiversity Conservation in Regional NRM Planning :

Research project number VRA1 of the Social and Institutional Research Program of Land & Water Australia

Biodiversity Conservation in Regional NRM Planning:

Research project number VRA1 of the Social and Institutional Research Program of Land & Water Australia

Cartography for environmental law - effective regulation of natural resource use

Fact Sheet: Research project TPF1 of Social and Institutional Research Program

Change and continuity in peri-urban Australia

The non-urban areas within 150 kilometers of Australia metropolitan centres are undergoing rapid change and fragmentation, and in many cases, intense conflict. They are the sites of all outer urban expansion; are important sources of environmental, natural and human resources; produce over one quarter of the value of agricultural production; are the locations of much urban water; and contain 50 per cent of threatened biodiversity. The research project, “Change and continuity in (more)...

Change and continuity in peri-urban Australia

State of the Peri-Urban Regions: A Review of the Literature

This study, Change and Continuity in Peri-urban Australia, aims to help redress the relative lack of attention given to peri-urban regions in Australia and to contribute to a growing international literature on these areas. The project will produce four monographs. This first takes the form of a review of peri-urban literature and experience. It analyses research, identifies issues to inform the later project work and examines governance, sectoral and cross-sectoral issues, (more)...

Community catchment groups, land use change and environmental management systems:

Research project number UWA27 of the Social and Institutional Research Program of Land & Water Australia

Contracting and monitoring landholder conservation agreements

This is a factsheet produced from research project UWA2264

This fact sheet outlines a Land & Water Australia project titled ‘A bioeconomic analysis of the duration of conservation contracts’. The project aims to inform the decision-making processes of regulators using conservation contracts to protect remnant native vegetation. It focuses on monitoring to assess compliance and environmental outcomes, and to inform the duration of contract agreements with landholders. A simplified case study is used to explore (more)...

Creating markets for environmental goods and services on private land

This is a policy factsheet for research project DSE3 which was completed in June 2007

New ideas and techniques in economics open up the possibility of making significant improvements in environmental policy mechanisms. It is now possible to design, test and create new policy mechanisms such as tradeable emmissions permits, specialised…

Creating markets for environmental goods and services: a mechanism design approach

New ideas and techniques in economics open up the possibility of making significant improvements in environmental policy mechanism. It is now possible to design, test and create new policy mechanisms such as tradeable emissions permits, specialised…

Decision points for land and water futures

Policy Sheet: Research project CWE17 of Social and Institutional Research Program

Deliberation in the wilderness: the Far North Queensland Citizen's Jury

This report covers the Far North Queensland Citizens’ Jury (FNQCJ), the second of two citizens’ juries conducted as part of the research project Citizens’ Juries for Environmenta