Environment Design Guide - DES 51 Catchment Management -- Building Catchment Communities to Deliver Integrated Natural Resource Management

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DES 51

Catchment Management – Building Catchment Communities to Deliver Integrated Natural Resource Management

Hedley Thomson

Manager Parks and Environment, Ballarat City Council

This note describes the concept of catchment management, drawing attention to the integrating nature of the concept that fosters a coordinated and comprehensive approach to natural resource management. The note postulates that the integrating characteristics create the opportunity for catchment communities to work together on catchment-wide issues. Complex administrative systems and multiple and duplicated responsibilities between authorities have the potential, however, to limit the success of the catchment management concept. The note describes how this situation can be avoided.

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Keywords

Catchment management, integration, coordination, communities, natural resource management.