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Identifying and Characterising the Social Assets of the NRM System

The paper provides an initial description of the social assets within the NRM system and discusses the conceptual and methodological issues associated with identifying and describing these assets.

Identifying and characterising the social assets of Australia

The term ‘social assets’ describes those characteristics of the social system which enable the longer term conservation, repair or replenishment of natural assets (NRM outcomes), and comprises those characteristics of the social system which include specific social entities, such as resource managers, NRM organisations and institutions; the attributes or characteristics of social entities, which may also reflect their capacity to adopt sustainable (more)...

Community Participation and Capacity Building

Land & Water Australia gives high priority to social and institutional research aimed at improving community participation in natural resource management and building community capacity. Under the community participation and capacity building theme, we invest in both the social (people, communities and culture) and institutional (policy, economics, law, organisations, governance and management) dimensions of natural resource management.

Making successful investments in NRM practice change

This project aims to help regional NRM bodies to continually improve the ways they manage their investment in NRM practice change. The participating regional NRM bodies are prompted to think about and adapt how they operate. Tools and processes are being developed to help regional NRM bodies to work through these questions for their situation.