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Governing community-based natural resource management in Australia: international implications

Dale, Allan, Vella, Karen, Ryan, Sarah, Broderick, Kathleen, Hill, Rosemary, Potts, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8681-4309 and Brewer, Tom 2020. Governing community-based natural resource management in Australia: international implications. Land 9 (7) , 234. 10.3390/land9070234

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Abstract

Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) has grown in stature as a key component of many national natural resource and rural development governance systems. Despite their growth, the integrity of CBNRM governance systems has rarely been analysed in a national context. To enhance dialogue about how best to design and deploy such systems nationally, this paper analyses the Australian system in detail. The Australian system was selected because the nation has a globally recognised and strong history of CBNRM approaches. We first contextualise the international emergence of national CBRM governance systems before analysing the Australian system. We find that a theoretically informed approach recognising regions as the anchors in brokering multi-scale CBNRM was applied between 2000 and 2007. Subsequent policy, while strengthening indigenous roles, has tended to weaken regional brokering, Commonwealth–state cooperation and research collaboration. Our findings and consequent emerging lessons can inform Australian policy makers and other nations looking to establish (or to reform existing) CBNRM governance systems. Equally, the research approach taken represents the application of an emerging new theoretical framework for analysing complex governance systems.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Additional Information: This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Publisher: MDPI
ISSN: 2073-445X
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 20 July 2020
Date of Acceptance: 16 July 2020
Last Modified: 06 May 2023 20:18
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/133606

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