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Influence of the Camballin Barrage on Fish Communities in the Fitzroy River, Western Australia

The Barrage on the Fitzroy River presents a considerable barrier to fish migrations in this ecologically, culturally and socially important system.

Impacts of Plantation Age, Fire and Disturbance on Catchment Yield

The problem of sustainable water resource management is a key issue confronting Australia in the 21st century. Increasing demand through increased population size, declining rainfall across parts of temperate Australia and consequently an increasing need to allocate water to maintain ecosystem health and ecosystem service provision are the dominant threats to the maintenance of an adequate supply of water to urban, peri-urban and rural communities.

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Alternative Landscape Futures

A model for minimizing the impacts of pesticides on the riverine environment

Alternative Landscape Futures (ALF) analysis is a long-term, large area, land and environment assessment approach for assisting communities and policy makers make decisions about planning the future of that area. It provides a spatially explicit, regional scale perspective on the combined effects of the multiple policies, plans, population and land use pressures affecting the availability of natural resources and ecosystem services for a geographic area. The (more)...

The relationship between community vitality, viability and health, and natural resources and their management

Final report

This Final Report presents: (i) key findings from a Literature Review that explores the nature of people’s interactions with natural resources, viewed from individual and community perspectives, with special attention given to the concept of community vitality, viability and health (VVH); (ii) suggested headline and supporting indicators for testing as to their suitability in assessing community VVH and its contribution to (more)...

Views on Irrigation Policy in Australia

Water policy in Australia is undergoing considerable and unprecedented change. Most recently, the emphasis on the sustainable management of water resources in the Murray Darling Basin has seen a shift of control from the States to the Commonwealth. The declining availability of water and the subsequent approaches taken by governments, have come under increasing scrutiny from the public. Indeed, the actions associated with water policy in Australia, particularly water used for irrigated (more)...

Rip Rap Magazine 33 - Community learning

Community learning and development is about supporting people in communities to identify and understand issues that are important to them, and providing them with opportunities to take action on those issues. This issue of RipRap features articles from a

Socio-economic research and development for irrigation communities

The case for maintenance of a healthy environment that supports sustainable economic activity and offers economic, social and environmental benefits, has been well argued. All stakeholders, whether farmers, governments, non-government organisations or industry in all its forms, have a crucial role in this process, as decisions and actions of stakeholders at all levels greatly affect outcomes from use of water and other natural resources. In many catchments, new approaches to the use (more)...