Contested country local and regional natural resources management in Australia

• Other Authors: Lane, Marcus B. 1966-, Robinson, Cathy J., Taylor, Bruce
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Pub., 2009.
• Subjects: Australia > Environmental conditions.; Environmental management > Australia.; Environmental policy > Australia.; Sustainable development > Australia.; Environmental protection > Australia.; Biodiversity conservation > Australia.; Australia.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781613443989; 9780643098015; 9781283155458; 9780643095861
• Physical Description: 1 online zdroj (x, 250 p.) : ill., maps

Leading researchers critically review Australia's environmental management over the past decade.

Table of Contents:

• cover; Contents; List of contributors; 1 Introduction: contested country regional naturalresource management in Australia; Part 1 Policy, promises and practices ofregional resource managementand governance; 2 From government to governance: explaining andassessing new approaches to NRM; 3 Invest, divest or empower: interpretations andpractices of regionalisation in Australia's savannas; 4 Can community-based NRM work at the scale of largeregions? Exploring the roles of nesting and subsidiarity.
• 5 Will Regionalisation achieve integrated Natural ResourceManagement? Insights from recent South Australianexperience6 Interrogating devolved natural resource management:challenges for good governance; 7 Accounting for performance: public environmentalgovernance in the shadow of the future; Part 2 Community engagement, localparticipation and regional capacity; 8 Seeing Engagement Practitioners as DeliberativeHinges to improve Landholder Engagement; 9 Community engagement in natural resourcemanagement: ex.