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40 - Fieldwork in the Australian Bush: If It Doesn’t Kill You, It’ll Convert You

from Part II - Essays: Inspiring Fieldwork

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2020

By
Lisa Robins
Edited by
Tim Burt  and
Des Thompson
Tim Burt
Affiliation:
Durham University
Des Thompson
Affiliation:
Scottish Natural Heritage
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Summary

My first experience of fieldwork as a Catchment Project Officer set the trajectory of my career as one focused on integrated catchment management (ICM), coupled with building the capacity of communities to enable their effective engagement in water and land-use decision-making processes. Over a two-year period, I was to work with a small team and a community-based Catchment Co-ordinating Group (CCG) charged with developing the nation’s first regional-scale ICM Strategy in the vast, mostly low-rainfall, agricultural catchment of the Wimmera River (30,000 km2) in the State of Victoria, in Australia’s south-east.

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Curious about Nature
A Passion for Fieldwork
 , pp. 304 - 308
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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References

Robins, L. and Dovers, S. (2007a). Community-based NRM boards of management: are they up to the task? Australasian Journal of Environmental Management 14, 111–122.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Robins, L. and Dovers, S. (2007b). NRM regions in Australia: the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’. Geographical Research 45, 273–290.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Robins, L. and Kanowski, P. (2011). ‘Crying for our Country’: eight ways in which ‘Caring for our Country’ has undermined Australia’s regional model for natural resource management. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management 18, 88–108.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Victorian Catchment Management Council (2017). Celebrating 20 Years: Integrated Catchment Management in Victoria 1997–2017. Victoria State Government, Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Melbourne.Google Scholar

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