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| Title: | Understanding rural life - assessing the social dimensions when encouraging land-use changes in rural areas |
| Authors: | Race, Digby
Farquharson, Robert J.
Birckhead, Jim
Vernon, Don
Bathgate, Andrew |
| Keywords: | Social
natural resource management
land-use change
Boorowa |
| Issue Date: | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | Conference Paper |
| Abstract: | Meshed with the bio-physical and economic dimensions of rural land-use is a social
dimension. Understanding the social and economic dimension of rural communities is
critical if agencies are to develop effective policies and programs to improve natural
resource outcomes. In this paper, we draw on research of the Boorowa community,
located in the south-west slopes of New South Wales, to help understand how social
changes in rural communities are impacting natural resource management in the
Boorowa district. This included:
*Identifying the catalysts for changing land-use in the Boorowa catchment,
*Presenting an effective and efficient methodology for assessing the social and
economic impacts of changes in land use at the catchment scale,
*Identifying feasible and socially-acceptable pathways to achieve change in landuse
to manage dryland salinity.
The research process involved assessing data availability for construction of social
and landholder profiles, conducting workshops with different community groups to
explore their long-term goals and concerns about salinity, and developing indicators
of social processes and progress that Catchment Management Authorities might be
able to use in their decision-making processes. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/10379 |
| Institution/Association: | Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society - 2007>2007 Conference (51st), February 13-16, 2007, Queenstown, New Zealand |
| Total Pages: | 17 |
| Language: | English |
| Collections: | 2007 Conference (51st), February 13-16, 2007, Queenstown, New Zealand
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