Download or read book Choice Modelling in the Development of Natural Resource Management Strategies in NSW Catchments written by Katarzyna Malgorzata Mazur and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian public awareness of natural resource management (NRM) issues relating to environmental conditions has been heightened in recent years. However, due to government budget limitations only some of the environmental problems can be addressed. This raises the question of how available funds should be allocated in order to achieve improved resource use efficiency. The motivation for this research arises from the need for a better understanding of how non-market values can be used in the NRM investment prioritisation processes to enable a comprehensive cost benefit analysis of different resource allocation options. The objective of this research was to explore the application of choice modelling (CM) to elicit the values of New South Wales (NSW) residents for a range of environmental and social changes provided by potential NRM investments in NSW catchments. The estimated environmental and social values are inputs to bio-economic optimisation modelling tools used by Catchment Management Authorities to determine land use changes that can provide improved net benefits to society over time. A further objective of this research was to explore scope, scale effects, the distance effect and ways of improving incentive compatibility of the CM technique. These three methodological issues were investigated to ensure an appropriate use of non-market values for NRM assessments at both catchment and farm levels as well as more accurate extrapolations of non-market values from the case studies to wider application. In order to provide improved result credibility for the policy process, the inclusion of a provision rule directed at incentive compatibility was also tested.
Download or read book Modeling in Natural Resource Management written by Tanya M. Shenk and published by Shearwater Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work covers topics in natural resource modelling to explain how they can be, have been, and should be used in making decisions about the management of natural resources. It aims to give managers and students the tools they need to assess and apply models effectively.
Download or read book Balanced Urban Development Options and Strategies for Liveable Cities written by Basant Maheshwari and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a unique synthesis of concepts and tools to examine natural resource, socio-economic, legal, policy and institutional issues that are important for managing urban growth into the future. The book will particularly help the reader to understand the current issues and challenges and develop strategies and practices to cope with future pressures of urbanisation and peri-urban land, water and energy use challenges. In particular, the book will help the reader to discover underlying principles for the planning of future cities and peri-urban regions in relation to: (i) Balanced urban development policies and institutions for future cities; (ii) Understanding the effects of land use change, population increase, and water demand on the liveability of cities; (iii) Long-term planning needs and transdisciplinary approaches to ensure the secured future for generations ahead; and (iv) Strategies to adapt the cities and land, water and energy uses for viable and liveable cities. There are growing concerns about water, food security and sustainability with increased urbanisation worldwide. For cities to be liveable and sustainable into the future there is a need to maintain the natural resource base and the ecosystem services in the peri-urban areas surrounding cities. This need is increasing under the looming spectre of global warming and climate change. This book will be of interest to policy makers, urban planners, researchers, post-graduate students in urban planning, environmental and water resources management, and managers in municipal councils.
Download or read book Environmental and Resource Economics written by Jeff Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farming Action Catchment Reaction written by J Williams and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dryland farming is a major export earner for many temperate-zone countries, yet it continues to degrade a country's natural resources. Effects are not restricted to the land - changes in water quality can reduce the potential uses of water and bring about catastrophic changes in both freshwater and coastal ecosystems. Farming Action: Catchment Reaction provides a comprehensive technical overview of the relationships between dryland farming systems and catchment land and water quality in Australia, and integrates it in a whole system framework. It deals with the issues in terms of people, pointers, processes and prediction as it discusses social aspects of developing and implementing research to improve dryland farming systems in catchment management programs, indicators of catchment health, and the processes which determine the impact of the farming action on the catchment response. It concludes by considering the adequacy of our ability to use this process knowledge in models to predict the effect of dryland farming on catchment condition.
Download or read book Water Policy in Australia written by Lin Crase and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2011 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few policy areas in recent history have the attention of the Australian public and polity as much as those relating to water. Water Policy in Australia considers the current policy reform agenda from agricultural, environmental, and cultural perspectives. It presents a comprehensive account of the country's critical water issues and provides expert perspectives from behavioral and institutional economists, engineers, hydrologists, sociologists, and water law specialists. The environment can no longer support Australia's legacy of institutions, norms, and values relating to the exploitation of.
Download or read book Neo Renaissance written by Au Shion Yee and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a significant shift in the institutions through which natural resource governance has been managed in Australia over the last two decades. This has accompanied changes in the relationships between government and the wider community as citizens are provided a greater rile in shaping and influencing the direction of natural resource management (NRM) and environmental policy, and are provided with greater opportunities to engage with policymakers. This shift towards 'bottom-up' approaches may result in policies that are more effective, efficient, and focused on the important NRM issues facing a region. Such changes in the mode of natural resource governance, however, have also been associated with additional costs coupled with disappointing on-ground outcomes to date. The Australian NRM programs of Landcare, Integrated Catchment Management, and the current regional NRM arrangements are revealing that NRM problems such as land degradation continue to persist. Although government policymakers are optimistic that the regional NRM arrangements have gone some way in addressing the issues which contibuted to the ineffectiveness and failure of earlier programs, concern still exists that the current institutional iteration for natural resource governance may not be enough to ameliorate on-going problems of land and environmental damage. This may be the result of poorly explained and identified costs and benefits associated with the regional NRM governance model. Adjusting natural resource governance to the regional level is accompanied by additional upfront costs and benefits. A regional NRM model will typically involve higher transaction costs and administrative costs, reflecting the increased time and administration involved.There are also several potential benefits of devolved governance models. First, better engagement may address problems of information asymmetry, where local groups and agencies hold different pieces of information and current mechanisms to reveal or coordinate information are not strong. Second, better governance may address principal-agent problems where the incentives faced by government agencies (the agents) do not deliver the outcomes sought by communities (the principal). Giving communities more input into the gorernance process may help to minimise these discrepancies in incentives. The third important way in which devolved governance arrangements might generate benefits is through the development of governance capital. The deepening of 'soft' institutions can be very important in the efficient functioning of an economy, because they essentially reduce the transaction costs of achieving certain outcomes. This might occur when a governance model increases the skills and engagement processes within a region, making it more resilient to adverse impacts and more capable of mobilising resources and responding to regional development opportunities. The aim of this study is to identify different institutional models for pursuing NRM objectives, and to examine the model which characterises the regional NRM arrangements. The focus empirically is on Australian natural resource governance. The first objective in addressing this aim is to review past programs of natural resource governance leading up to the implementation of the regional NRM arrangements of interest in this research. The second objective is to explore empirically how the regional NRM model can achieve the desired natural resource governance outcomes. To this end, a case study was undertaken of a devolved grants incentive program conducted by the FBA in the Central Queensland region. To address the aims, the research empirically evaluated the factors influencing landholder participation in the program in the Fitzroy Basin catchment of Central Queensland, Australia. Specifically, the regional NRM arrangements in place were examined with respect to three key areas: governance and institutions, transaction costs, and social and governance capital. A decision support framework was developed based on theoretical and case study analysis and was trialled using the FBA case study in this research. The decision support tool was validated based on FBA case study evidence, and represents a key contribution to knowledge in this thesis. Results from a survey of landholders involved in the FBA devolved grants program found total landholder costs of participation tend to be higher for those involved in fencing remnant vegetation, and higher for those who did not rate the application process as easy. Costs were also higher for those respondents who thought participation would lead to increased production. Landholder costs were lower for those who thought that the FBA was flexible and lower for younger respondents. Results also indicated that older respondents, respondents with higher levels of income, respondents with higher levels of off-farm income, and respondents who planned to have the property for longer in the future were less likely to take up future NRM grant programs. The study outlined implications and recommendations for policymakers to consider in implementing future policies and programs with respect to achieving NRM objectives, combining local knowledge, improved collaboration and public participation, and social capital enhancing strategies. This approach lays the foundation for all policy decisions relating to natural resource governance. By carefully understanding not only the costs and benefits of governance options, but also identifying trade-offs incorporating 'soft' institutions such as social and governance captial, communities and governments can influence the adoption of improved NRM practices. This thesis contributes to the stock of case studies and empirical body of research into understanding the appropriateness of institutional arrangements for achieving collaborative natural resource and environmental outcomes. -- Abstract.
Download or read book Australian National Bibliography written by and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1978 with total page 1734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Integrated Assessment of Water Resources and Global Change written by Eric Craswell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-04-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents papers from an international conference, held in Bonn, Germany in February 2005, that dealt with integrated water resources management in industrialized and developing countries. The papers detail such emerging concepts as blue and green water, virtual water, the water footprints of nations, multi-agent modeling, linkages between water and biodiversity, and social learning and adaptive management.
Download or read book Landscape Logic written by Allan Curtis and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2012-04-11 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2005, researchers from four Australian universities and CSIRO joined forces with environmental managers from three state agencies and six regional catchment management authorities to answer the question: 'Can we detect the influence of public environmental programs on the condition of our natural resources?' This was prompted by a series of national audits of Australia's environmental programs that could find no evidence of public investment improving the condition of waterways, soils and native vegetation, despite major public programs investing more than $4.2 billion in environmental repair over the last 20 years. Landscape Logic describes how this collaboration of 42 researchers and environmental managers went about the research. It describes what they found and what they learned about the challenge of attributing cause to environmental change. While public programs had been responsible for increase in vegetation extent, there was less evidence for improvement in vegetation condition and water quality. In many cases critical levels of intervention had not been reached, interventions were not sufficiently mature to have had any measurable impact, monitoring had not been designed to match the spatial and temporal scales of the interventions, and interventions lacked sufficiently clear objectives and metrics to ever be detectable. In the process, however, new knowledge emerged on disturbance thresholds in river condition, diagnosing sources of pollution in river systems, and the application and uptake of state-and-transition and Bayesian network models to environmental management. The findings discussed in this book provide valuable messages for environmental managers, land managers, researchers and policy makers.
Download or read book Temperate Woodland Conservation and Management written by David Lindenmayer and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2010 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book summarizes the main discoveries, management insights and policy initiatives in the science, management and policy arenas associated with temperate woodlands in Australia. More than 60 of Australia's leading researchers, policy makers and natural resource managers have contributed to the volume. It features new perspectives on the integration of woodland management and agricultural production, including the latest thinking about whole of paddock restoration and carbon farming, as well as financial and social incentive schemes to promote woodland conservation and management. Temperate Woodland Conservation and Management will be a key supporting aid for farmers, natural resource managers, policy makers, and people involved in NGO landscape restoration and management. KEY FEATURES * High quality chapters from the nation's leading researchers, managers and policy makers in temperate woodlands * New perspectives on the integration of woodland management and agricultural production * Easy to follow format that distills key new insights and lessons for future conservation and management initiatives
Download or read book Co Engineering and Participatory Water Management written by Katherine A. Daniell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective participatory water management requires effective co-engineering – the collective process whereby organisational decisions are made on how to bring stakeholders together. This trans-disciplinary book highlights the challenges involved in the collective initiation, design, implementation and evaluation of water planning and management processes. It demonstrates how successful management requires the effective handling of two participatory processes: the stakeholder water management process and the co-engineering process required to organise this. The book provides practical methods for supporting improved participatory processes, including the application of theory and models to aid decision-making. International case studies of these applications from Australia, Europe and all over the world, including Africa, are used to examine negotiations and leadership approaches, and their effects on the participatory stakeholder processes. This international review of participatory water governance forms an important resource for academic researchers in hydrology, environmental management and water policy, and also practitioners and policy-makers working in water management.
Download or read book Sustainable Development and Planning X written by G. Passerini and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 1025 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains research from the 10th International Conference on Sustainable Development and Planning. The papers included in this volume form a collection of research from academics, policy makers, practitioners and other stakeholders from across the globe who discuss the latest advances in the field. Problems related to development and planning, which affect rural and urban areas, are present in all regions of the world. Accelerated urbanisation has resulted in deterioration of the environment and loss of quality of life. Urban development can also aggravate problems faced by rural areas such as forests, mountain regions and coastal areas, amongst many others. Taking into consideration the interaction between different regions and developing new methodologies for monitoring, planning and implementation of novel strategies can offer solutions for mitigating environmental pollution and non-sustainable use of available resources. Energy saving and eco-friendly building approaches have become an important part of modern development, which places special emphasis on resource optimisation. Planning has a key role to play in ensuring that these solutions as well as new materials and processes are incorporated in the most efficient manner. The application of new academic findings to planning and development strategies, assessment tools and decision making processes are all covered in this book.
Download or read book International Sheep and Wool Handbook written by D. J. Cottle and published by Nottingham University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a broad range of topics relevant to the sheep and wool industry, this newly expanded edition—containing 11 new chapters and a more international scope—discusses future developments in all areas and provides an in-depth review of the meat aspects of the market. Separated into five distinct sections, the comprehensive survey summarizes the major world sheep and wool industries, biological principles, management, production systems, and the preparation, processing, and marketing of meat and wool. References and web links at the end of each chapter present further sources of information. From paddock to plate and farm to fabric, this overview is a must-have for all those involved in the trade, including producers, brokers, exporters, and processors.
Download or read book Environmental Geotechnics written by A. Bouazza and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents proceedings from the first Australian-New Zealand Geoenvironment conference. The conference provides a forum for researchers and practitioners in the region to exchange ideas, share information and discuss the effective management of the geoenvironment.
Download or read book Land Use in Australia written by Richard Thackway and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land Use in Australia: Past, Present and Future, is a compilation of invited chapters from Australia’s leading specialists in land use policy and planning and land management. Chapters present many widely recognised issues involved in Australia’s land use policy and planning, including limited understanding and poor awareness of: the rich history of poor decisions on land use planning and management across different levels of governmentthe discontinuities between providers of national biophysical informationthe tools, data and information to improve national land use decision-making outcomesthe poor synthesis and integration between science to policy to natural resource management and resource conditionthe benefits of land use practitioners engaging in connection, cooperation, mutual inquiry and collective social learnings. The aims of the book are threefold: 1) provide a review of the current status of land use policy and planning in Australia; 2) provide a resource to inform and influence the development of land use policy and planning; and 3) provide a sound contribution to Australia’s public–private land use debates in the future. The audience for the book includes government and non-government land management agencies from state and national bodies, universities and researchers.
Download or read book Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
