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Challenges and opportunities for natural resource managers

Challenges and opportunities for natural resource managers. RSSA Journal Club – July 2012 Allan Holmes Chief Executive. NRM reform in SA. One of the Minister’s priorities Reform components A new State NRM Plan Integration of regional delivery Renewed focus on community.

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Challenges and opportunities for natural resource managers

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  1. Challenges and opportunities for natural resource managers RSSA Journal Club – July 2012 Allan HolmesChief Executive

  2. NRM reform in SA • One of the Minister’s priorities • Reform components • A new State NRM Plan • Integration of regional delivery • Renewed focus on community

  3. State NRM Plan 2012 – 2017 • More guiding, less prescriptive • Components: • A long-term vision • 3 goals • 10 guiding targets • 10 priority actions to improve system • NRM Standard

  4. State NRM Plan goals Goal 1 People taking responsibility for natural resources and making informed decisions Goal 2 Sustainable management and productive use of land, water, air and sea Goal 3 Improved condition and resilience of natural systems

  5. Challenges (opportunities?) • Getting the balance right • People, production, conservation • A new model of shared service delivery • Declining government resource base • Accountability for levy spend • Empowering communities or cost-shifting?

  6. Challenges (opportunities?) • New ways of working with community • Taking the time to get this right to achieve ‘community at centre’ • Building non-science skills • Maintaining identity of Boards as link to community • Aligning effort • Annual implementation plans: bringing together community and government priorities

  7. Challenges (opportunities?) • Understanding success • Monitoring and evaluation • The shifting role of science • Performance improvement (NRM Standard) • Political timeframes • What if a new government changes arrangements?

  8. And thinking further ahead… • Natural and productive landscapes will change over the next 50 years… • Climate change • Competing land uses • Greater recognition of the interconnectedness of issues • Increasing pressures on natural resources • Technological advancement

  9. What might NRM look like? • How will the relationship between people and natural systems change into the future? • How will changing landscapes be valued (and used)? • What societal preferences will determine trade-offs? • Will regions remain the optimal scale of management? • Will markets, voluntarism or regulation dominate as a management response? • Autonomous, empowered communities or … ?

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