Social and Institutional Research Program Publications

It can't work without people

Land & Water Australia Senior Research Fellowship 2008

This is a promotional item that informs people about the Senior Research Fellowship. It also gives a short biography of the current Fellows.

Land Use Policy for Environmental Objectives: contributions from economics

Making the Connections that build sustainability in natural resource management

An outline of the goal, research themes and research strategies for the Land & Water Australia’s social and institutional research 2005 - 2010

Managing Water for Australia

Australian water policy and management are undergoing rapid and immense change in response to drought, technological advances, climate change and demographic and economic shifts. The National Water Initiative and the 2007 Australian Government water policy statements propose a fundamental shift in how Australians will use and manage water in the future. The implementation of the national water policy presents many challenges – the creation of water rights and markets, comprehensive water (more)...

Mekong Region Environmental Governance

Natural Resource Management Governance for change

This paper is an addendum to the Pathways to good practice in NRM governance Phase 1 series of reports and scholarly papers funded by Land & Water Australia from 2005 to 2008. As part of a second phase of the project, we undertook to undertake a comparative analysis of the various natural resource management (NRM) audit and assessment instruments; and test the applicability of our Standard (more)...

Natural Resources Management - people and policy

New guidelines for catchment managers