Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14486563.2021.1959427
N. Samnakay
ABSTRACT Over the past three decades, the Australian Government has led the coordination and implementation of strategic policies that aim to manage natural resources sustainably. Strategic policies typically seek to manage the consumptive use of natural resources to improve a range of environmental variables. This article focuses on strategic policies which operate under national arrangements where the Australian Government has limited direct constitutional powers to regulate natural resource use, so resorts to indirect measures and financial incentives. While the extent to which such policies give effect to sustainable development principles is debatable, as is their appropriateness for achieving environmental gains, a number of strategic natural resource management policies have persisted in the national policy domain. These present opportunities for understanding good-practice policy-making for managing natural resources sustainably, and an evaluative framework is presented to this effect. Relevant inter-relationships and complexities for policy design and implementation are revealed with the intent of stimulating further enquiries and analyses of strategic NRM policies in the context of Australia’s federal system.
{"title":"A framework for analysing and informing Australia’s National strategic natural resource management policies","authors":"N. Samnakay","doi":"10.1080/14486563.2021.1959427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14486563.2021.1959427","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Over the past three decades, the Australian Government has led the coordination and implementation of strategic policies that aim to manage natural resources sustainably. Strategic policies typically seek to manage the consumptive use of natural resources to improve a range of environmental variables. This article focuses on strategic policies which operate under national arrangements where the Australian Government has limited direct constitutional powers to regulate natural resource use, so resorts to indirect measures and financial incentives. While the extent to which such policies give effect to sustainable development principles is debatable, as is their appropriateness for achieving environmental gains, a number of strategic natural resource management policies have persisted in the national policy domain. These present opportunities for understanding good-practice policy-making for managing natural resources sustainably, and an evaluative framework is presented to this effect. Relevant inter-relationships and complexities for policy design and implementation are revealed with the intent of stimulating further enquiries and analyses of strategic NRM policies in the context of Australia’s federal system.","PeriodicalId":46081,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Environmental Management","volume":"28 1","pages":"267 - 286"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14486563.2021.1959427","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46573797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14486563.2021.1955023
K. Meissner, J. Everingham
ABSTRACT Public participation is embedded within requirements for Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in Australia and many other countries. Although the widespread requirements for public participation have been criticised as rhetorical, it is deemed to have significant symbolic significance. The use of public participation to gather multiple perspectives expresses an intent to improve environmental decision-making and respond to increasing demand for a role in decisions that affect people’s homes, livelihoods, and communities. This research examines participant experience of public participation in the EIA processes undertaken for four proposed coal mining developments close to the small, remote cattle grazing community of Alpha, in Queensland’s Galilee Basin in the central west of the state. Participant experience is examined through the lens of competence in environmental decision-making, which asserts that, for public participation to be competent, participants need access to information and its interpretations. Participants in 25 semi-structured interviews described two major flaws in public participation in relation to the proposed projects: proponent control of project information, and the government’s ‘hands-off’ approach.
{"title":"Information control and competence: participant experience of public participation in EIA for proposed mining projects in Queensland","authors":"K. Meissner, J. Everingham","doi":"10.1080/14486563.2021.1955023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14486563.2021.1955023","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Public participation is embedded within requirements for Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in Australia and many other countries. Although the widespread requirements for public participation have been criticised as rhetorical, it is deemed to have significant symbolic significance. The use of public participation to gather multiple perspectives expresses an intent to improve environmental decision-making and respond to increasing demand for a role in decisions that affect people’s homes, livelihoods, and communities. This research examines participant experience of public participation in the EIA processes undertaken for four proposed coal mining developments close to the small, remote cattle grazing community of Alpha, in Queensland’s Galilee Basin in the central west of the state. Participant experience is examined through the lens of competence in environmental decision-making, which asserts that, for public participation to be competent, participants need access to information and its interpretations. Participants in 25 semi-structured interviews described two major flaws in public participation in relation to the proposed projects: proponent control of project information, and the government’s ‘hands-off’ approach.","PeriodicalId":46081,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Environmental Management","volume":"28 1","pages":"287 - 304"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14486563.2021.1955023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41401072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14486563.2021.1944344
Jessica A. Harris, S. Rundle‐Thiele, Patricia David, Bo Pang
ABSTRACT Koalas are an Australian icon, and their existence is under threat. Environmental protection efforts that centre on people are needed, ensuring the human dimension is considered in conservation efforts aiming to protect wildlife. This article reports process and outcome evaluation results for a social marketing program that aimed to reduce dog and koala interactions. This project aimed to leverage pilot study outcomes. Specifically, the program sought to embed koala aversion (the ability for a dog to avoid koalas) skills within one local government area. A total of 2013 dog owners were surveyed to assess program outcomes, with improved dog abilities observed following city-wide program implementation. Further evidence of program success was indicated in the process evaluation. Dog trainers and dog owners were satisfied, willing to recommend the program to other people, and they were willing to attend events in future. Lessons learned, implications, limitations of the current study and future directions are outlined.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14486563.2021.1957031
P. Sandiford
ABSTRACT It has been suggested that volunteer tourists (voluntourists) contribute to society in a variety of ways, although enthusiasm for such voluntourism is often tempered with an awareness of potentially less positive impacts. This article focuses on citizen-science conducted by voluntourists in an Australian conservation park, showing that such voluntourist-conducted conservation research is valued by participants, though challenges are identified, not least regarding the differing perceptions and expectations of the tours on offer. This is also potentially complicated by the often overlapping volunteer, tourist and researcher experiences, activities and identities. This study introduces a tentative typology of citizen-science activities that emerged during ethnographic fieldwork to help explore the voluntourists’ engagement with citizen-science projects and their implications for broader citizenship awareness and behaviour.
{"title":"Volunteer tourists as scientifically aware environmental citizens: citizen science within an Australian non-governmental organization","authors":"P. Sandiford","doi":"10.1080/14486563.2021.1957031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14486563.2021.1957031","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT It has been suggested that volunteer tourists (voluntourists) contribute to society in a variety of ways, although enthusiasm for such voluntourism is often tempered with an awareness of potentially less positive impacts. This article focuses on citizen-science conducted by voluntourists in an Australian conservation park, showing that such voluntourist-conducted conservation research is valued by participants, though challenges are identified, not least regarding the differing perceptions and expectations of the tours on offer. This is also potentially complicated by the often overlapping volunteer, tourist and researcher experiences, activities and identities. This study introduces a tentative typology of citizen-science activities that emerged during ethnographic fieldwork to help explore the voluntourists’ engagement with citizen-science projects and their implications for broader citizenship awareness and behaviour.","PeriodicalId":46081,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Environmental Management","volume":"28 1","pages":"248 - 266"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14486563.2021.1957031","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41498117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-05-24DOI: 10.1080/14486563.2021.1927211
C. Tiller, J. Fletcher, S. Comer, D. Algar
ABSTRACT The efficiency of feral predator control can be improved dramatically by adjustments that take into account activity and movement patterns of the predator. These traits were analysed for large samples of feral cats at three sites widely distributed throughout Western Australia to encompass a range of habitat and climatic variables in order to improve methods large-scale aerial baiting control programs. Seventy-eight feral cats were collared with GPS data-logger/radio telemetry collars and predominantly tracked at one-hourly intervals for between 16 and 118 days. There was sufficient difference in the patterns of movement between sites to suggest that aerial baiting programs can benefit greatly by altering current delivery methods to increase the rate of bait encounter by feral cats. Although likely, further testing is required to determine whether these results can be extrapolated to other introduced predators (i.e. introduced canids) to increase the success of control programs for these species.
{"title":"Using activity and movement patterns to improve the rate of bait encounter during large-scale aerial baiting for feral cats","authors":"C. Tiller, J. Fletcher, S. Comer, D. Algar","doi":"10.1080/14486563.2021.1927211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14486563.2021.1927211","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The efficiency of feral predator control can be improved dramatically by adjustments that take into account activity and movement patterns of the predator. These traits were analysed for large samples of feral cats at three sites widely distributed throughout Western Australia to encompass a range of habitat and climatic variables in order to improve methods large-scale aerial baiting control programs. Seventy-eight feral cats were collared with GPS data-logger/radio telemetry collars and predominantly tracked at one-hourly intervals for between 16 and 118 days. There was sufficient difference in the patterns of movement between sites to suggest that aerial baiting programs can benefit greatly by altering current delivery methods to increase the rate of bait encounter by feral cats. Although likely, further testing is required to determine whether these results can be extrapolated to other introduced predators (i.e. introduced canids) to increase the success of control programs for these species.","PeriodicalId":46081,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Environmental Management","volume":"28 1","pages":"220 - 235"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14486563.2021.1927211","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42542826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14486563.2021.1924300
Rochelle Ade, Michael Rehm
ABSTRACT New Zealand is hamstrung by a housing crisis. Although the discourse primarily focuses on housing affordability and homelessness, there is a more pervasive problem afflicting New Zealanders: that New Zealand homes are substandard, being cold, damp and difficult to heat. This article reviews the moisture levels of three categories of housing (older vintage, newly constructed and newly constructed green certified) in Auckland, New Zealand, to determine whether the pervasive issue of high internal humidity in housing can be successfully rectified through using a green building certification. The results show that newly constructed 6-Homestar dwellings are in the optimal relative humidity range mean 14 per cent of time in contrast to 17 per cent for new code-compliant dwellings (and six per cent for older vintage dwellings) in the damp winter months of June through August. This research documents that a particular green certification – 6-Homestar – may not deliver suitable humidity control, and that alternative certifications that stipulate airtightness levels and require active ventilation – such as Passive House – could be considered by policy makers interested in delivering low-carbon, warm, dry houses in New Zealand.
{"title":"Is green certification the solution to substandard indoor air quality (humidity)? A case study of old, new and green-certified dwellings","authors":"Rochelle Ade, Michael Rehm","doi":"10.1080/14486563.2021.1924300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14486563.2021.1924300","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT New Zealand is hamstrung by a housing crisis. Although the discourse primarily focuses on housing affordability and homelessness, there is a more pervasive problem afflicting New Zealanders: that New Zealand homes are substandard, being cold, damp and difficult to heat. This article reviews the moisture levels of three categories of housing (older vintage, newly constructed and newly constructed green certified) in Auckland, New Zealand, to determine whether the pervasive issue of high internal humidity in housing can be successfully rectified through using a green building certification. The results show that newly constructed 6-Homestar dwellings are in the optimal relative humidity range mean 14 per cent of time in contrast to 17 per cent for new code-compliant dwellings (and six per cent for older vintage dwellings) in the damp winter months of June through August. This research documents that a particular green certification – 6-Homestar – may not deliver suitable humidity control, and that alternative certifications that stipulate airtightness levels and require active ventilation – such as Passive House – could be considered by policy makers interested in delivering low-carbon, warm, dry houses in New Zealand.","PeriodicalId":46081,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Environmental Management","volume":"28 1","pages":"126 - 148"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14486563.2021.1924300","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48524359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14486563.2021.1919232
J. Rolfe, Helen Scarborough, B. Blackwell, Steve Blackley, C. Walker
ABSTRACT Determining social values for protecting coastal assets, including coastal parks, beaches and foreshores, is important because of potential losses with climate change impacts. In a case study application in Victoria, Australia, the travel cost method was applied to value the use of camping parks by visitors, and the choice modelling technique was applied to estimate willingness to pay (WTP) of visitors and residents to avoid future losses in foreshore campground access and beach width, through protection and adaptation efforts. While both visitors and residents had similar values for park and campsite, and beach protection, residents valued beach protection as more important whereas visitors placed greater importance in protecting parks and campsites. Visitor values were higher for sites and beaches closer to metropolitan Melbourne. These results provide government agencies and coastal managers with better information about protection values for low lying coastal assets and will enable more informed decisions to be made about investing in coastal protection and the management of specific resources in the face of sea level rise and climate threats.
{"title":"Estimating economic values for beach and foreshore assets and preservation against future climate change impacts in Victoria, Australia","authors":"J. Rolfe, Helen Scarborough, B. Blackwell, Steve Blackley, C. Walker","doi":"10.1080/14486563.2021.1919232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14486563.2021.1919232","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Determining social values for protecting coastal assets, including coastal parks, beaches and foreshores, is important because of potential losses with climate change impacts. In a case study application in Victoria, Australia, the travel cost method was applied to value the use of camping parks by visitors, and the choice modelling technique was applied to estimate willingness to pay (WTP) of visitors and residents to avoid future losses in foreshore campground access and beach width, through protection and adaptation efforts. While both visitors and residents had similar values for park and campsite, and beach protection, residents valued beach protection as more important whereas visitors placed greater importance in protecting parks and campsites. Visitor values were higher for sites and beaches closer to metropolitan Melbourne. These results provide government agencies and coastal managers with better information about protection values for low lying coastal assets and will enable more informed decisions to be made about investing in coastal protection and the management of specific resources in the face of sea level rise and climate threats.","PeriodicalId":46081,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Environmental Management","volume":"28 1","pages":"169 - 187"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14486563.2021.1919232","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45334593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14486563.2021.1919233
Carrie Wilkinson, Leah M. Gibbs
ABSTRACT There is little recognition in policy of existing adaptive capacities and experiments with alternate water systems in the Global North. Households that are self-sufficient for water present a space in which alternative relationships between water, comfort and convenience manifest. This article presents insights from a survey completed by 209 households that are self-sufficient for water in the Eurobodalla Shire, in regional New South Wales, Australia. The survey sought to understand practices, experiences, and perceptions of people who take responsibility for managing the capture, storage, consumption, and disposal of water at home. We found that most respondents rely on household-collected rainwater for all domestic purposes. Most drink rainwater, and many drink rainwater untreated. Respondents identified challenges of self-sufficiency, including running out of water, and infrastructure maintenance and failure. Notwithstanding these challenges, most respondents indicated that they enjoy living in a water self-sufficient home and would do so again in future. Most respondents moved to their non-mains water home for reasons other than being in control of water; adapting to water self-sufficiency was therefore a necessity rather than a choice. The results of this survey are significant as the water sector looks to diversify sources of domestic water to better adapt to uncertain futures.
{"title":"Beyond mains water: a survey of households that are self-sufficient for water in regional Australia","authors":"Carrie Wilkinson, Leah M. Gibbs","doi":"10.1080/14486563.2021.1919233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14486563.2021.1919233","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT There is little recognition in policy of existing adaptive capacities and experiments with alternate water systems in the Global North. Households that are self-sufficient for water present a space in which alternative relationships between water, comfort and convenience manifest. This article presents insights from a survey completed by 209 households that are self-sufficient for water in the Eurobodalla Shire, in regional New South Wales, Australia. The survey sought to understand practices, experiences, and perceptions of people who take responsibility for managing the capture, storage, consumption, and disposal of water at home. We found that most respondents rely on household-collected rainwater for all domestic purposes. Most drink rainwater, and many drink rainwater untreated. Respondents identified challenges of self-sufficiency, including running out of water, and infrastructure maintenance and failure. Notwithstanding these challenges, most respondents indicated that they enjoy living in a water self-sufficient home and would do so again in future. Most respondents moved to their non-mains water home for reasons other than being in control of water; adapting to water self-sufficiency was therefore a necessity rather than a choice. The results of this survey are significant as the water sector looks to diversify sources of domestic water to better adapt to uncertain futures.","PeriodicalId":46081,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Environmental Management","volume":"28 1","pages":"149 - 168"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14486563.2021.1919233","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41518770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14486563.2021.1923579
N. Flint, A. Anastasi, Jeremy De Valck, Evan M. Chua, Adam K. Rose, E. L. Jackson
ABSTRACT Report cards are increasingly popular tools communicating the condition of coastal and riverine environments to environmental managers, stakeholders and the public, and synthesising complex data drawn from a range of indicators. Mud crabs have not previously been included in ecosystem health report cards in Australia or elsewhere but have been suggested as environmental indicators for tropical coastal marine environments in Australia. Mud crabs support commercial, recreational and Indigenous fisheries and their biology is relatively well known. For these reasons and due to their local relevance, mud crabs (Scylla serrata) were selected for long-term monitoring and inclusion in a report card for Gladstone Harbour, Australia. Three mud crab measures were identified to reflect the variety of pressures across Gladstone Harbour: abundance, prevalence of rust lesions and sex ratio. A standardised field monitoring program was developed to allow for ongoing scoring and reporting of the multi-metric indicator. An indicator scoring (distance from benchmark) and grading methodology was applied to the indicator and refined over the two years of monitoring. This article provides a novel framework for monitoring and scoring mud crabs for management purposes or for use in report cards, and outlines the process of developing an indicator for an iconic crustacean species.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14486563.2021.1923434
H. Ross, C. Baldwin
Many may think that the field of agricultural extension, in which farmers and graziers are – or were – provided with advice in order to farm better, has declined, if not largely disappeared in Australia. Certainly, it is no longer a role of agricultural departments as it was in the 1950s– 1990s, but we argue it continues. Instead, the focus has shifted from agricultural production to environmental management, from farmers and graziers to include other types of landholders, and from agricultural departments to regional bodies for natural resource management and private providers. Extension involves transferring information, knowledge and skills that enable individuals, organisations and businesses to improve economic, social and environmental outcomes (Beever 2016). The Australasia-Pacific Extension Network (2021) defines extension in a way that reflects this dual role:
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