The following series of fact sheets provide you with an up-to-date summary of the research outcomes from the SIRP program.
These Fact Sheets cover a broad range of social and institutional research topics relevant to the sustainable use and management of Australia's natural resources. They are of value to natural resource managers, the government sector, researchers, and others with an interest in this challenging and interesting research area.
Policy Sheets
- Policy Sheet: Investigation of a Conservation Economy Model for Indigenous Northern Australia - ACF1 (pdf 1.28 mb)
- Policy Sheet: Decision points for land and water future - CWE17 ( pdf 288 kb)
- Policy Sheet: Australia's farmers: Past present and future - DAV41 (pdf 278 kb)
- Policy Sheet: Mechanism design approach to environmental policy - DSE3 (1.27 mb)
- Policy Sheet: Developing a Good Regulatory Practice Model for Environmental Regulations Impacting on Farmers - UNE60 (1.25 mb)
- Policy Sheet: Biodiversity conservation in regional NRM planning - VRA1 (pdf 290 kb)
Project in Progress Summaries
- Project in Progress Summary: Federalism and natural resource management in the Murray Darling Basin - ANU36 (pdf 278 kb)
- Project in Progress Summary: Kinship with Country: intercultural values of natural resource management - ANU37 (pdf 278 kb)
- Project in Progress Summary: Cultural flows: Country, identity, ecology - ANU39 (pdf 277kb)
- Project in Progress Summary: Improving NRM program and project design - ANU40 (pdf 276 kb)
- Project in Progress Summary: Volunteerism, democracy, administration and the evolution of future landscapes - CLW73 (pdf 277 kb)
- Project in Progress Summary: Assessment of social and economic values of Australia's tropical rivers - CSE29 (pdf 279 kb)
- Project in Progress Summary: Understanding Landholder Constraints on the Uptake of Market-Based Instruments - CSU29 (1.26 mb)
- Project in Progress Summary: Sustainable northern landscapes and the nexus with Indigenous health - NTU7 (pdf 293 kb)
- Project in Progress Summary: Change & continuity in peri-urban Australia - RMI13 (pdf 280 kb)
- Project in Progress Summary: Integrated natural and cultural resources management options for pastoral lands in the East Kimberley - TRC2 (pdf 289 kb)
- Project in Progress Summary: Development of Indigenous knowledge capacity across North Australia - TRC3 (pdf 293 kb)
- Project in Progress Summary: Sustainable systems for commercial kangaroo harvest - UAD17 (pdf 279 kb)
- Project in Progress Summary: Assessing impacts and learnings from large-scale collaborative R&D initiatives - UCW5 (pdf 282 kb)
- Project in Progress Summary: Creating inspiration: How visual and performing arts shape environmental behaviour - UNE44 (pdf 276 kb)
- Project in Progress Summary: Engaging stakeholders in NRM practice change - UQL25 (pdf 290 kb)
- Project in Progress Summary: Community catchment groups, land use change and environmental management systems - UWA27 (pdf 277 kb)
- Project in Progress Summary: A bioeconomic analysis of the duration of conservation contracts - UWA51 (pdf 1.25 mb)
- Project in Progress Summary: Our Corner of the Greenhouse - Examining the complex interactions in the regulation of climate change and environmental management in Australia - UWO5 (pdf 278 kb)
Fact Sheets
- Fact sheet: If you build them, will they pay? - Institutions for private sector nature conservation - ADF5 (pdf 322 kb)
- Fact sheet: Arrangements to Enhance Effective Use of Incentive Mechanisms for Regional NRM - AGT13 (pdf 293 kb)
- Fact sheet: Using citizens' juries for making decisions in natural resource management - AGT13 (pdf 315 kb)
- Fact sheet: Environmental research: from independent experts to post-modern process managers? - ANU18 (pdf 279 kb)
- Fact sheet: Enhancing the information base on participatory approaches in NRM - ANU21 (pdf 292 kb)
- Fact sheet: The changing nature of rural communities : policy-driven landuse change and the sustainability of rural communities - ANU22
(pdf 293 kb) - Fact sheet: Implications for Australian NRM of international experiences in institutional change and reform arising from Sustainable Development - ANU24
(pdf 296 kb) - Fact sheet: Engaging with different publics: A study of responses to lay citizen engagement in public policy - ANU31
(pdf 302 kb) - Fact sheet: How to have excellent natural resource management partnerships with local government - ANU43 (pdf 818 kb)
- Fact sheet: It can't work without people - CAG2 (pdf 292 kb)
- Fact sheet: Supporting decisions: understanding natural resource management assessment techniques - CLW24
(pdf 292 kb) - Fact sheet: Institutional integration in complex environments - CSE4 (pdf 285 kb)
- Fact sheet: Assessing and managing burnout in Landcare members, leaders and coordinators - CSU23 (pdf 315kb)
- Fact sheet: Evaluating integrated catchment management - CTC7 (pdf 296 kb)
- Fact sheet: Spatio-temporal effectiveness of natural resource and rural adjustment policies - CWE18 (pdf 289 kb)
- Fact sheet: Assessing ecosystem services in the Goulburn Broken Catchment - CWE27 (pdf 304 kb)
- Fact sheet: Australia's farmers: past present and future - DAV41 (pdf 278 kb)
- Fact sheet: Where's Wally? - integration of social science in NRM organisations 1978-2002 - ING1 (pdf 294 kb)
- Fact sheet: Evaluation of producer initiated and managed R&D - RPM2 (pdf 289 kb)
- Fact sheet: participation in natural resource management research and development - SYN1 (pdf 287 kb)
- Fact sheet: Cartography for environmental law effective regulation of natural resource use - TPF1(pdf 288 kb)
- Fact sheet: Interdisciplinary research in NRM - UMU14 (pdf 288 kb)
- Fact sheet: Designing eco-civic regions for NRM - UNE35 (pdf 293 kb)
- Fact sheet: Evaluating NRM: policies and programs - USQ3 (pdf 297 kb)
- Fact sheet: Social and institutional knowledge in NRM - UTA11 (pdf 291 kb)
- Fact sheet: Evolution, Revolution, Devolution? An analysis of the legal and administrative arrangements for catchment and water planning in NSW and SA - UWO4
(pdf 279 kb) - Fact sheet: Biodiversity conservation in regional NRM planning -VRA1 (pdf 299 kb)