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LANDCARE AND COMMUNITY‐LED WATERSHED MANAGEMENT IN VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA 1
Author(s) -
Ewing Sarah
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
jawra journal of the american water resources association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.957
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1752-1688
pISSN - 1093-474X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1999.tb03622.x
Subject(s) - watershed , government (linguistics) , environmental planning , business , watershed management , citizen journalism , environmental resource management , resource management (computing) , scale (ratio) , state (computer science) , participatory planning , political science , geography , economics , computer science , computer network , philosophy , linguistics , cartography , algorithm , machine learning , law
Australia's ‘Landcare’ program is a community‐based participatory program established by government to tackle the problem of land degradation. Landcare involves thousands of Australians working together in locally based groups, tackling problems of common concern. Government and community are now looking to ‘scale up’ the Landcare idea to a regional level. State and territory governments have moved to create regional (often watershed‐based) frameworks for land management planning and resource conservation, in accordance with the concept of integrated watershed management. Growing out of the success of community involvement in Landcare, many of these approaches involve the community. However scaling up of the Landcare idea introduces problems of both time and space. There have been a number of problems experienced in the implementation of Landcare and integrated watershed management. These problems include the equitable delineation of membership on decision‐making bodies; the raising of sufficient funds for program implementation; and the coordination of a diversity of governmental layers, planning processes and management programs. This paper reviews how the State of Victoria has responded to these challenges and suggests what challenges remain.