Institutional Arrangements for the Community Engagement in the Natural Resources Management: Case Study of the Lake Eyre Basin

Silva Larson and Lynn Brake ()
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Lynn Brake: CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Australia

No 2010-01, Socio-Economics and the Environment in Discussion (SEED) Working Paper Series from CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems

Abstract: This paper presents an overview of the formal institutional arrangements for natural resource management (NRM) in the Lake Eyre Basin (LEB) and the role of these arrangements as an enabling environment for community engagement in NRM. The appropriate scale of NRM management and the complexity and expense of effective community engagement is discussed. The paper highlights challenges faced by NRM groups in remote regions and their need for proper support and sharing in significant decision making processes. Regional interface groups are presented as relatively recent experiments in ecological intervention that have operated in a rapidly changing policy environment. The paper concludes with a summary of potential key challenges for NRM in the LEB region and suggests that interface organisations require understanding, capacity and support to utilise their investments and program activities to learn about how to improve and adapt to meet the challenges of their operating environment.

Keywords: institutional arrangements; NRM; participation; public consultation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D78 N57 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2010-02
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