Content Areas

Capacity Building and Institutional Change

Within the context of natural resource management, EBC has undertaken a number of studies of capacity and institutional change. Studies of capacity have generally focussed on the assessment of current levels of capacity within NRM regions, the identification of strategies and programs to build capacity and the development of monitoring programs to evaluate progress towards achievement of capacity targets. Both qualitative and quantitative research methods have been used in this context, including extensive interview research and the development of psychometric measures and indicators.

Recent Reports and Publications

Social capacity and the Loddon Campaspe irrigation region: Community profiling and network identification (2007).
Social capacity and the Loddon Campaspe Irrigation Region (2006).
Refining indicators for monitoring and evaluating the social and institutional foundations of regional NRM programs (2005).

Display older publications.

Capacity and institutional change in NRM: Case studies in the Burdekin and Wet Tropics NRM regions (2004).
A monitoring and evaluation process for the social dimensions of the National Heritage Trust and the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality (2004).
Framework development: Indicators of capacity, performance and change in regional NRM bodies (2004).
Monitoring and evaluation processes for the social dimensions of NHT and NAP (2004).
An investigation of capacity and capacity building requirements in relation to NRM in the Wet Tropics (2004).
Vulnerability and capacity measurement (2003).
Social assessment in the Australian forest sector (2001).
Framework and review of capacity and motivation to change towards sustainable management practices: Australian Land and Water Audit Project 6.2.1 (1999).
Capacity of and opportunity for farmers and other land managers to implement change at the property, community and regional levels (1999).
The application of social assessment in the Regional Forest Agreement process (1999).

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