A resilience-based approach to regional natural resource management planning in NSW

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Natural resource management programs around Australia are led, coordinated and implemented by regionally-based organisations. In New South Wales (NSW) the thirteen catchment management authorities have legislative responsibilities to prepare strategic catchment plans that coordinate and integrate the natural resource management activities of community and government. These plans are about to be revised and new approaches to planning practice are being sought and explored. Resilience theory is an emerging field of research and practice that is being proposed by some institutions as a new and potentially worthwhile approach to dealing with complexity, uncertainty and inevitable future change. Resilience theory conceptualise problems as evolving from complex and interlinked social-ecological systems. It identifies those areas in systems where resilience may be being undermined and therefore could tip into another system state, or where a system may be currently stuck in an undesirable but

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