Essibility Models for Natural Resource Management

Promoting Natural Resource Management with an Emphasis on Good Governance

Background and Objectives: Good governance has received a lot of attention regarding the better management of natural resources, because of its efforts to improve the ability of the natural resource management system. In other words, good governance can affect the socio-economic components of the region and ultimately the improvement of natural habitats. In this regard, evaluating good governan...

Transformational Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Management

It is widely agreed the Anthropocene has seen an unprecedented decline in the natural resources conditions that have underpinned the economic growth of the last few hundred years. As communities, we have not responded to Boulding’s vision of ‘the coming space ship earth’ although not for want of much official and private effort. As ‘wicked problems’ the impacts have been often ignored or off lo...

Interactive modelling for natural resource management

We present a modelling approach to rapidly assess the effect of management decisions on ecological problems and demonstrate its use in fishery management. Each stage of the approach is controlled by a graphical user interface which allows a team of non-expert modellers to compare the outcomes of multiple model simulations and to decide what further simulation is needed. A distinguishing feature...

Sustainability Indicators for Natural Resource Management & Policy

Knowledge Acquisition for Natural Resource Management

17 Decision Support Systems (DSSs) can play a powerful role in Natural Resource 18 Management (NRM), by allowing more effective and collective use of information in 19 addressing complex and often poorly structured questions. CSIRO Tropical Agriculture, in 20 Townsville Australia, is developing a DSS generator that provides a flexible environment 21 for the construction of decision support tool...