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Title Contested country : local and regional natural resources management in Australia / editors: Marcus Lane, Cathy Robinson, Bruce Taylor
Published Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Publishing, 2009

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Description x, 250 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents 1 Introduction: contested country - regional natural resource management in Australia / Marcus Lane, Bruce Taylor and Cathy Robinson -- Part 1 Policy, promises and practices of regional resource management and governance -- 2. From government to governance: explaining and assessing new approaches to NRM / Brian W Head -- 3 Invest, divest or empower: interpretations and practices of regionalisation in Australia's savannas / Bruce Taylor -- 4 Can community-based NRM work at the scale of large regions? Exploring the roles of nesting and subsidiarity / Graham R Marshall -- 5 Will Regionalisation achieve integrated Natural Resource Management? Insights from recent South Australian experience / Marcus Lane, Anna Haygreen, Tiffany H Morrison and Jill Woodlands -- 6 Interrogating devolved natural resource management: challenges for good governance / Julie Davidson and Michael Lockwood -- 7 Accounting for performance: public environmental governance in the shadow of the future / Tabatha Wallington and Geoffrey Lawrence -- Part 2 Community engagement, local participation and regional capacity -- 8 Seeing Engagement Practitioners as Deliberative Hinges to improve Landholder Engagement / Toni Darbas, Timothy F Smith and Emma Jakku -- 9 Community engagement in natural resource management: experiences from the Natural Heritage Trust Phase 2 / Megan Farrelly -- 10 Landcare bowling alone: finding a future in the 'fourth' phase / Erlina Compton, Katrin Prager and Bob Beeton -- 11 Indigenous natural resource management: overcoming marginalisation produced in Australia's current NRM model / Rosemary Hill and Liana Williams -- 12 Decentralised governance for natural resource management: capacity challenges in Australia and Canada / Lisa Robins and Rob de Loe -- Part 3 Learning and adapting from regional and national experiences -- 13 On a learning journey to nowhere? The practice and politics of evaluating outcomes of natural resource management in northern Queensland regions / Cathy Robinson, Bruce Taylor and Richard Margerum -- 14 Reviewing adaptive management through a wicked lens / Catherine Allan -- 15 Lessons from the Australian experiment 2002-08: the road ahead for regional governance / Tiffany H Morrison -- Part 4 Conclusion -- 16 The changing and contested governance of Australia's environmental heritage / Cathy Robinson, Marcus Lane and Bruce Taylor
Summary Critically reviews Australia's environmental management under the auspices of the National Heritage Trust over the past decade, and identifies the challenges that must be met in the national quest for sustainability
Analysis Management of land & natural resources (Australia)
Conservation of the environment
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Also available via the World Wide Web
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Print version record
Subject Natural Heritage Trust (Australia)
SUBJECT Sustainable development http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2001010052 -- Australia. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326
Natural resource management and policy http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93009437 -- Australia. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326
Subject Environmental
Environmental policy -- Australia.
Environmental protection -- Australia.
Biodiversity conservation -- Australia.
Sustainable development -- Australia.
Environmental management -- Australia.
SUBJECT Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Environmental conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005384
Author Lane, Marcus B. (Marcus Benjamin), 1966-
Robinson, Cathy J.
Taylor, Bruce, Dr.
CSIRO (Australia). Sustainable Ecosystems.
LC no. 2009675139
ISBN 9780643095861 paperback
0643095861 paperback
Other Titles Local and regional natural resources management in Australia