ORCID Profile
0000-0003-4549-5361
Current Organisation
Cooperative Research Centre for Transformations in Mining Economies
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Publisher: Wiley
Date: 29-01-2015
Publisher: CSIRO
Date: 2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-08-2010
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2009
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-06-2009
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-2014
DOI: 10.1038/510473A
Publisher: CSIRO
Date: 2013
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 14-08-2007
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 21-01-2021
DOI: 10.3390/CLI9020021
Abstract: Climate change is a significant challenge for policy makers, planners and communities. While adaptation responses are generally recognised to be place-based, policy processes on adaptation often reside with central (state or national) governments that may be remote from regional communities. In this paper, we contribute to the literature regarding how erse regional communities engage with planning and policy for climate adaptation, which is important for successful implementation. We adopt a social network analysis (SNA) approach that enables an exploration of the interaction of community networks with policy information. There are limited empirical studies of information sharing about climate adaptation policy through community knowledge networks. One previous study, located in coastal New South Wales, Australia, mapped the community’s knowledge acquisition and diffusion to reveal the underlying network structures that influenced policy engagement pathways. However, further studies are needed to determine how the features of community networks may change with local context (e.g., coastal versus inland). This paper extends previous studies to compare and contrast adaptation knowledge networks in three NSW communities: Shoalhaven (the original coastal study site), Bega (coastal) and Orange (inland). Findings suggest that the presence of a natural resource-dependent industry, local geographies and boundary spanners acting as network knowledge brokers are factors influencing community knowledge flows. The work further demonstrates the utility of SNA to measure knowledge networks that can inform government engagement and communication with communities on climate adaptation policy.
Publisher: CSIRO
Date: 2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-06-2016
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-01-2009
DOI: 10.1002/LDR.887
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2012
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 22-10-2009
DOI: 10.1007/S00267-009-9391-8
Abstract: Participatory modeling is increasingly recognized as an effective way to assist collective decision-making processes in the domain of natural resource management. This article introduces a framework for evaluating projects that have adopted a participatory modeling approach. This evaluation framework--known as the "Protocol of Canberra"--was developed through a collaboration between French and Australian researchers engaged in participatory modeling and evaluation research. The framework seeks to assess the extent to which different participatory modeling initiatives not only modify perceptions among and interactions between participants, but also contribute to collective decision-making. The article discusses the development of the framework and its application to three case-studies, two from Australia and one from the Pacific Island of the Republic of Kiribati. The article concludes with some comments for future use of the framework in a range of participatory modeling contexts.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-06-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2011
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 28-06-2013
DOI: 10.1007/S00267-013-0114-9
Abstract: Recent concerns over a crisis of identity and legitimacy in community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) have emerged following several decades of documented failure. A substantial literature has developed on the reasons for failure in CBNRM. In this paper, we complement this literature by considering these factors in relation to two successful CBNRM case studies. These cases have distinct differences, one focusing on the conservation of hirola in Kenya on community-held trust land and the other focusing on remnant vegetation conservation from grazing pressure on privately held farm land in Australia. What these cases have in common is that both CBNRM projects were initiated by local communities with strong attachments to their local environments. The projects both represent genuine community initiatives, closely aligned to the original aims of CBNRM. The intrinsically high level of "ownership" held by local residents has proven effective in surviving many challenges which have affected other CBNRM projects: from impacts on local livelihoods to complex governance arrangements involving non-government organizations and research organizations. The cases provide some signs of hope among broader signs of crisis in CBNRM practice.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 17-02-2011
Publisher: CSIRO
Date: 2010
Publisher: Canberra, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems
Date: 2008
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-12-2020
Abstract: Climate change, as well as associated mitigation efforts, will substantially disrupt some economies. Seemingly inevitable market and policy changes will push economies to transition away from reliance on industries with higher carbon emissions and bring transient economic impacts, especially in regions that are currently heavily reliant on such industries. This situation is not unusual in a global context. To underpin better‐informed decisions that enable a smoother economic transition to a low‐emissions future, we developed a ‘latent economic vulnerability to emissions reduction’ (LEVER) index, which maps and explores regions that are more likely to be economically impacted from climate change mitigation. Thus, this paper provides an analysis and discussion of the potential regional implications of a future low‐emissions economy, with the analysis contextualised for the state of Queensland, Australia. Given this case study, the economic impacts and future of coal‐fired power stations, coal mining and renewable energy are discussed. The LEVER index weighs the risk of high carbon economic exposure against the variability in carbon economic resilience from employment in low‐emission sectors across local economies. We find that between 3 and 6 per cent of Queensland regions are assessed as having a very high latent economic vulnerability to increased decarbonisation of industrial activities. To promote a smoother transition, these regions will require targeted investments and strategies to enable their transition towards lower carbon‐intensive systems, while maximising economic and social outcomes.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2019
Publisher: [Aspendale, Vic.], CSIRO and the Sydney Coastal Councils Group Inc
Date: 2008
Publisher: CSIRO
Date: 2009
Publisher: CSIRO
Date: 2017
Publisher: CSIRO
Date: 2018
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 26-05-2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-11-2007
DOI: 10.2167/IRGEE221.0
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2008
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-01-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-2008
DOI: 10.1111/J.1530-9290.2008.00075.X
Abstract: Australia's export‐oriented large natural resources sectors of agriculture and mining, the ways large‐scale services, such as nutrition, water, housing, transport and mobility, and energy are organized, and the consumption patterns of Australia's wealthy urban households, create a unique pattern of overall resource use in Australia. In an attempt to contribute to a new environmental information system compatible with economic accounts, we represent Australia's resource use by employing standard biophysical indicators for resource use developed within the Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD) context. We look at the last 3 decades of resource use and the economic, social, and environmental implications. We also discuss scenarios of future resource use patterns based on a stocks and flows model of the Australian economy. We argue that current extractive economic patterns have contributed to the recent economic boom in Australia but will eventually lead to negative social and environmental outcomes. Although there is currently little evidence of political support for changing the economic focus on export‐oriented agriculture and mining industries, there is significant potential for improvements in socio‐technological systems and room for more sustainable household consumption.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2014
Publisher: CSIRO
Date: 2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2009
DOI: 10.1016/J.JENVMAN.2009.04.007
Abstract: Community and catchment-based approaches to salinity management continue to attract interest in Australia. In one such approach, Catchment Demonstration Initiative (CDI) projects were established by the Western Australian (WA) Government in 2000 for targeted investment in large-scale catchment-based demonstrations of integrated salinity management practices. The aim was to promote a process for technically-informed salinity management by landholders. This paper offers an evaluation of the effectiveness of one CDI project in the central wheatbelt of WA, covering issues including: its role in fostering adoption of salinity management options, the role of research and the technical requirements for design and implementation of on-ground works, the role of monitoring and evaluation, the identification and measurement of public and private benefits, comparison and identification of the place and value of plant-based and engineering-based options, reliance on social processes and impacts of constraints on capacity, management of governance and administration requirements and an appreciation of the value of group-based approaches. A number of factors may reduce the effectiveness of CDI-type approaches in facilitating landholder action to address salinity, many of these are socially-based. Such approaches can create considerable demands on landholders, can be expensive (because of the planning and accountability required) on the basis of dollars per hectare impacted, and can be difficult to garner ownership from all involved. An additional problem could be that few community groups would have the capacity to run such programs and disseminate the new knowledge so that the CDI-type projects can impact outside the focus catchment. In common with many publicly-funded approaches to salinity, we found that direct benefits on public assets are smaller than planned and that results from science-based requirements of monitoring and evaluation have long lead times, causing farmers to either wait for the information or act sooner and take risks based on initial results. We also found that often it is a clear outline of the process that is of most importance in decision making as opposed to the actual results. We identified limitations in regulatory processes and the capacity for local government to engage in the CDI. The opportunities that CDI-type approaches provide centre around the value of its group-based approach. We conclude that they can overcome knowledge constraints in managing salinity by fostering group-based learning, offer a structured process of trialling options so that the costs and benefits can be clearly and transparently quantified, and avoid the costly mistakes and "learning failures" of the past.
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2018
Publisher: Canberra, CSIRO
Date: 2009
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2014
Publisher: Canberra, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems
Date: 2008
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.1071/AJ17148
Abstract: Decommissioning of wells and well pads (plugging and abandonment of the well and rehabilitation of the well pad) is an important activity in coal seam gas developments due to the large number of wells drilled and their co-location with other land uses. Successful decommissioning will need to be conducted in a way that is effective, efficient, complies with regulatory requirements and is socially acceptable. This study sought to understand the perspective of industry, government and local stakeholders on the decommissioning process and asked the question ‘what does successful decommissioning mean’? The study was conducted through workshops held in Camden, Chinchilla and Narrabri involving industry, government and local residents. All stakeholders agreed that the goal of successful decommissioning is to effectively have no legacy issues arising from the abandoned well or well pad, in perpetuity. However, there were differences in the confidence that stakeholders had in the process of achieving this outcome, largely based on the varying levels of understanding of well abandonment. This lack of confidence and understanding contributes to cross-cutting themes that emerged from the workshops. Local stakeholders expressed a strong desire for independent oversight and assessment of well abandonment processes, with increased transparency and access to information on abandoned wells in an understandable form. They also stated that long-term monitoring of wells post abandonment would assist in providing them with confidence that wells can be successfully decommissioned.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-11-2008
Publisher: CSIRO
Date: 2020
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-02-2009
DOI: 10.1007/S00267-008-9265-5
Abstract: Conventional approaches to evaluation of environmental programs have tended to limit themselves to restricted measures of program effectiveness. This paper shows how a social learning approach can be incorporated into evaluating public environmental programs. A social learning approach is particularly suited to complex environmental challenges which are inherently difficult to understand, predict, and manage, thus complicating the evaluation process. The paper presents an Australian case study of dryland salinity management where there are major knowledge barriers impeding conventional management techniques. The research presented in this paper focused on evaluating a public demonstration program to track its impact through its design, implementation, and monitoring phases. The paper shows that, by incorporating social learning principles and practices, program evaluation can promote collective action, critical reflection, and increased knowledge to underpin improved environmental management.
Publisher: Canberra, CSIRO
Date: 2009
Publisher: CSIRO
Date: 2016
Publisher: CSIRO
Date: 2010
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2013
Publisher: CSIRO
Date: 2017
Location: Australia
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