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Regional Natural Resource Management: A Stocktake of Land & Water Australia’s Investments

Regional Natural Resource Management (NRM) is defined as research that focuses on Australia’s designated network of regional NRM organisations as its primary target audience or subject matter. There are several companion stocktakes examining other themes, such as research related to Indigenous peoples and adaptive agriculture.

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)...

Regional Natural Resource Management: A Stocktake of Land & Water Australia’s Investments

This report presents a strategic framework as a lens for examining the current collection of research on regional NRM from across Land & Water Australia’s (LWA) program portfolios, and for making recommendations on future directions and priorities for research investment. Specific recommendations are made on the basis of research findings from a sample of past investment, as well as from input from several members of (more)...

Project Title Biodiversity Conservation in Regional NRM Planning

Research project number VRA1 of the Social and Institutional Research Program of Land & Water Australia. Completed July 2003.

Supporting knowledge brokering in the NRM sector

This package provided a range of services to regional NRM bodies to support them to broker knowledge. Key activities include: Operating the Gotta question?service Developing and funding a systematic review trial Funding a Decision Advice trial for regional bodies Investigating establishing a Community of Practice (also known as expert network) for (more)...

Growing Sense of Place

Michael Petter has been on so many committees over the last 20 years hes barely had time to stop and think, let alone work out just how far the community has come in those two decades of change.