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An assessment of social and economic values of Australia’s tropical rivers: A scoping report to Land & Water Australia’s Tropical Rivers Program

This project involved a preliminary’ assessment of the social and economic values associated with Australia’s tropical rivers undertaken for subsequent Land & Water Australia investment in its Tropical Rivers Program.

Scoping study report: Aboriginal management and planning for country

This report highlights that the Aboriginal cultural landscape of the Ord-Bonaparte region is complex and multi-layered. The historical, social, economic and environmental realities of Aboriginal people are accordingly diverse. Aboriginal people are still, statistically and in reality, experiencing extreme poverty, poor health and education levels, and their impacts. This is despite previous and ongoing regional development and planning activities aimed at better economic and social outcomes for the (more)...

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)...

Signposts for Australian Agriculture – Review of social components of the framework

Final report prepared for the Bureau of Rural Sciences

Signposts for Australian Agriculture is a project coordinated by the National Land and Water Resources Audit, with initial funding from the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Recognising the importance of this initiative, the Bureau of Rural Sciences has allocated its own funding to support Signposts. The 2005-06 funding includes provision to carry out a review of the social components of the Signposts for Australian Agriculture Framework. This review follows on from a review carried out (more)...

Ecosystem Services and Natural Resource Management Practice Change

Where the Rubber Hits the Road

On the 12 March 2009 a roundtable allowed Roel Plant and Simone Maynard to share the results of their research and experience. The meeting was hosted and funded by Land & Water Australia. Roel’s project was funded by the Social and Institutional Research Program and Simone’s travel to the US had been made possible through Social and Institutional Research funding. What is (more)...

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An Assessment of the Social and Economic Values of Australia's Tropical Rivers

Scoping Report

Covering an area of more than 1.3 million square kilometres, the tropical rivers region of Australia includes 55 river basins and extends across all catchments from the west side of Cape York to the Kimberley, through Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia. It includes some of Australia’s largest river systems, which are, by area’ the Flinders, Roper, Victoria and Fitzroy Rivers and, by volume, the Nicholson and Mitchell Rivers. This report presents results of a scoping study of (more)...

Dr Neil Barr

Dr Neil Barr is the leader of the Rural, Social Research Team with the Department of Primary Industries, Victoria. Why do some country football teams find it hard to survive? Why are Beaut Blokes weekends so popular? Why are some small country towns dying and others thriving? Will the corporate farm supersede the family farm? What is the ‘grass change’? Where does the city end and the country begin? What are the environmental (more)...

Breaking through the Equity Barrier in Environmental Policy

The main hypothesis underlying this study was that judgments of equity or fairness are sensitive to context, but not in a random way. We designed a two-pronged approach for equity judgments regarding water allocation policies in Western Australia.