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Catchment Action Plan: Technical briefing. Presented by: Lyndal Hasselman Melissa Schrader. Tonight will give you An understanding of how systems thinking will be used An understanding of how your input will make a difference Confidence in the designed process. We will have:
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Catchment Action Plan: Technical briefing Presented by: Lyndal Hasselman Melissa Schrader
Tonight will give you • An understanding of how systems thinking will be used • An understanding of how your input will make a difference • Confidence in the designed process
We will have: • Shared understanding of where we are going and how we will get there • Confidence that together we will work through the process and achieve positive outcomes • Recognition that all input is valuable
What is it? • Cabinet approved plan for the Lachlan Catchment • Helps to set priorities for using our limited resources • We implement it by working with the communities that manage our natural resources
Why are we upgrading it? • CMAs started in mid 2004 • First Catchment Action Plan for the Lachlan was published in 2006 • The world has changed • Requirement in NSW State plan that all CMAs upgrade their plan by March 2013 • The Natural Resources Commission’s role
social-ecological systems adaptive community values science partnerships
economic ^ Social-ecological systems humans in the landscape we live here, we use things in the landscape for food, shelter and fibre in doing this, we change the landscape It’s a two way thing!
economic ^ Social-ecological systems Landscapes Livelihoods Lifestyles
Resilience • “the ability of the system to absorb disturbance and still retain its basic function and structure” To change state – and still function (could also lose function) Distance to threshold – ability to absorb shock Ability to change – and then change back
North Atlantic Kelp Forests Over fishing Atlantic cod Kelp Sea urchins Crabs
North Atlantic Kelp Forests Kelp Sea urchins Crabs
North Atlantic Kelp Forests Atlantic cod ? Kelp Over fishing Sea urchins Crabs
Sea urchins Kelp Cod
Don’t you love it when things just work? • Each of those little pieces when arranged perfectly comes together like magic. • What would happen if just one of these pieces changed? • or was missing?
So what is your role? • To provide your knowledge, experience, observations of howthis landscape works • Help us understand this landscape • We will be asking you to: • Explore • Consider • Inspire