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Contents

List of contributors

1 Introduction: contested country – regional naturalresource management in Australia

Part 1 Policy, promises and practices ofregional resource managementand governance

2 From government to governance: explaining andassessing new approaches to NRM

3 Invest, divest or empower: interpretations andpractices of regionalisation in Australia’s savannas

4 Can community-based NRM work at the scale of largeregions? Exploring the roles of nesting and subsidiarity

5 Will Regionalisation achieve integrated Natural ResourceManagement? Insights from recent South Australianexperience

6 Interrogating devolved natural resource management:challenges for good governance

7 Accounting for performance: public environmentalgovernance in the shadow of the future

Part 2 Community engagement, localparticipation and regional capacity

8 Seeing Engagement Practitioners as DeliberativeHinges to improve Landholder Engagement

9 Community engagement in natural resourcemanagement: experiences from the Natural HeritageTrust Phase 2

10 Landcare bowling alone: finding a future in the‘fourth’ phase

11 Indigenous natural resource management: overcomingmarginalisation produced in Australia’s currentNRM model

12 Decentralised governance for natural resourcemanagement: capacity challenges in Australiaand Canada

Part 3 Learning and adapting fromregional and national experiences

13 On a learning journey to nowhere? The practice andpolitics of evaluating outcomes of natural resourcemanagement in northern Queensland regions

14 Reviewing adaptive management through awicked lens

15 Lessons from the Australian experiment 2002–08:the road ahead for regional governance

Part 4 Conclusion

16 The changing and contested governanceof Australia’s environmental heritage

Index