- Title
- The Natural Resource Management Planning Portal : Perspectives for NRM planning and reporting
- Creator
- Hansen, Birgita; Dahlhaus, Peter; Milne, Robert; MacLeod, Andrew; Pitfield, Chris
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/168591
- Identifier
- vital:13846
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2018.1559383
- Identifier
- ISBN:0894-1920
- Abstract
- Natural Resource Management (NRM) is often conducted as a partnership between government and citizens. In Australia, government agencies formulate policy and fund implementation that may be delivered on-ground by community groups (such as Landcare). Since the late 1980s, over AUS$8b of Commonwealth investment has been made in NRM. However, quantitative evidence of environmental improvements is lacking. The NRM Planning Portal has been developed to (1) provide an online spatial information system for sharing Landcare and agency data; and (2) to facilitate NRM priority setting at local and regional planning scales. While the project successfully federates Landcare NRM activity data, challenges included (1) unstructured, non-standardized data, meaning that quantitative reporting against strategic objectives is not currently possible, and (2) a lack of common understanding about the value proposition for adopting the portal approach. Demonstrating the benefit of technology adoption is a key lesson for digital NRM planning.
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Relation
- Society and Natural Resources Vol. 32, no. 6 (2019), p. 709-719
- Rights
- Copyright © 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- MD Multidisciplary; Catchment management; Citizen science; Community-based NRM; Corangamite; Data standards; NRM priorities; Victoria; Web-GIS
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