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People Practice and Policy

A snapshot of Land & Water Australia's innovative social sciences research. The publication contains a series of short articles by researchers highlighting their key findings and is grouped around three integrating themes: Institutions and governance arrangements; Policy instrument choice; and Landscapes, lifestyles and livelihoods.

To order or download  Land & Water Australia's online catalogue.

Read People, Practice and Policy online.

Social and Institutional Research Program
Guide to projects and publications

This brochure outlines all past projects funded in Land & Water Australia's Social and Institutional Research Program and those current at October 2005. Includes a CD-ROM that contains a virtual library of NRM Social and Institutional Research Reports, and over 40 project in progress updates, factsheets and policy sheets

To order or download  Land & Water Australia's online catalogue.

Communication Strategy

Land & Water Australia's Social & Institutional Research Program Communication Strategy 2005 -2010 (pdf 127Kb)

Monitoring and Evaluation Strategy

Land & Water Australia's Social & Institutional Research Program Monitoring and Evaluation Strategy 2005 - 2010 (pdf 670Kb)

Indigenous

Land & Water Australia (LWA) currently funds a portfolio of indigenous-focused research encompassing eleven projects and two community fellowships across Australia. This report provides an overview of these research projects.

Land & Water Australia's R&D with an Indigenous Focus (pdf 486Kb)

Australasian Journal of Environmental Management

Land & Water Australia has sponsored this special issue to feature papers from its 2004 Integration Symposium.

Go to the html contents page to download the report

Australasian Journal of Environmental Management - a publication of The Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand

Volume 12 Supplementary Issue September 2005:

Australian Case Studies of Integration in Natural Resource Management

Australia's Farmers: past, present & future

This report examines trends in the demographic structure of Australia's farmer population for the period 1976 to 2001 and addresses a number of questions commonly asked about the future of the Australian farm sector. Go to the html contents page to download the report.

Australia's Farmers: past, present & future - Report June 2005 (html contents page)

Land & Water Australia Integration Symposium CD

This CD comprises a series of papers written for the Land & Water Australia Integration Symposium held May 2004.
The symposium brought together critical thinkers from academic, policy and natural resource management sectors across Australia.

A major outcome from the Symposium is a set of Guiding Principles for Integration in Natural Resource Management and is included on the CD.

To order the CD go to Land & Water Australia's online catalogue .

Knowing People: Reflections on interating social science 1978-2002

Alice Roughley 2004

This report explores the integration of six social scientists from 1978 to 2002 in five agencies, the organisational arrangements for integration, the roles of the social scientists and achievements of social science programs in those agencies and the extent of organisational learning that has occurred between the five agencies over the last 25 years.

Knowing People: Reflections on integrating social science 1978-2002  (pdf 883Kb)

Deliberation in the Wilderness

Simon Niemeyer and Russell Blamey, 2004

This report covers the Far North Queensland Citizens' Jury (FNQCJ), the second of two citizens' juries conducted as part of the research project Citizens' Juries for Environmental Management, from the Australian National University and primarily funded by Land & Water Australia.

Deliberation in the wilderness: the Far North Queensland Citizen's Jury  (pdf 1,267KB)

Making the Connections:
 that build sustainability in natural resource management

Land & Water Australia's social and institutional research and development investment plan 2005-10 Making the Connections(pdf 1.2Mb)

Research Meets Policy: improving the uptake of your research

This booklet  helps researchers improve communication of research findings to policy makers at all levels of government.

Research Meets Policy: improving the uptake of your research (pdf 505Kb)

An Effective System of Defining Water Property Titles

This report focuses on identifying the proper role of a water-titling and registration system and is an important contribution to a very important aspect of the Australian water reform agenda 

An Effective System of Defining Water Property Titles(pdf 702Kb)

The Australian Natural Resource Management Knowledge System

Knowledge, commitment and capacity are essential to underpin changes towards more sustainable systems of land, water and vegetation management at all scales. This paper analyses Australian progress on the knowledge component of the sustainability equation.

The Australian Natural Resource Management Knowledge System

A Vision for the Future: a snapshot of Land & Water Australia's plans for 2005-2010

A Vision for the Future