To highlight the contribution of adaptive, self-organising governance processes in supporting resilient environmental resource management, comparing and contrasting with traditional governance systems.
To demonstrate a learning approach to the design and implementation of adaptive management approaches in the context of water quality improvement at catchment scale.
To demonstrate the use of a social learning approach for evaluating public environmental programs
This paper shows how a social learning approach can be incorporated into evaluating public environmental programs, and presents an Australian case study of dry-land salinity management where there are major knowledge barriers impeding conventional management techniques.
Discusses practical issues involved in implementing the Learning Tourism Destination (LTD) concept within a case study of the Ningaloo Coast in Western Australia (WA)
To increase understanding of social learning through the process of knowledge co-production across multi-stakeholder platforms in natural resource management
Evaluates systematic organizational learning in response to the challenges of climate change adaptation, utilising case studies from two Swedish municipalities.