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The Australian journal of emergency management, Oct 1, 2016
Nature Sustainability
The 2020 global spatial targets for protected areas set by the Convention on Biological Diversity... more The 2020 global spatial targets for protected areas set by the Convention on Biological Diversity have almost been achieved, but management effectiveness remains deficient. Personnel shortages are widely cited as major contributing factors but have not previously been quantified. Using data from 176 countries and territories, we estimate a current maximum of 555,000 terrestrial protected area personnel worldwide (one per 37 km2), including 286,000 rangers (one per 72 km2), far short of published guidance on required densities. Expansion by 2030 to 30% coverage of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures is widely agreed as a minimum for safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystem services. We project that effective management of this expanded system will require approximately 3 million personnel (one per 13 km2), including more than 1.5 million rangers or equivalents (one per 26 km2). Parallel improvements in resourcing, working conditions and capacity are re...
Children & Nature Network, Nov 22, 2018
This RIRDC publication assesses the complex social, economic and environmental factors impacting ... more This RIRDC publication assesses the complex social, economic and environmental factors impacting on small-scale rural communities in the eastern edges of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area(GBMWHA. It assesses the role of agri-industries as landscape buffers to the neighbouring World Heritage Area. The research explores how local government planning might be improved to help this vulnerable but essential peri-urban farming community. In conjunction with targeted representative landholders, tools were developed to assist in enhancing the economic and environmental resilience of agri-industries involved in diverse modes of production. The report is targeted at the individuals and families undertaking a range of agribusinesses in the Hawkesbury-Nepean region, and aspects of the complex challenges faced by these farming communities. This report will also be of interest to regional and local government, environmental advocates, natural resource managers and others interested in the critical buffer zones between encroaching urban sprawls and naturally significant areas
Animals : an Open Access Journal from MDPI, 2021
Simple Summary Knowledge of the welfare status of wild animals is critical for informing debates ... more Simple Summary Knowledge of the welfare status of wild animals is critical for informing debates about how we interact with them. However, methodology to enable assessment of the welfare of free-roaming wild animals has been lacking. In this study, we assessed the use of remote camera traps to non-invasively identify individual free-roaming wild horses and evaluate an extensive range of welfare indicators. Camera trapping was successful in detecting and identifying horses across a range of habitats including woodlands where horses could not be directly observed. Twelve indicators of welfare were assessed with equal frequency using both still images and video, with an additional five indicators assessed on video. This is the first time such a methodology has been described for assessing a range of welfare indicators in free-roaming wild animals. The methodology described can also be adjusted and applied to other species, enabling significant advances to be made in the field of wild a...
This article presents a case study of bushfire risk communication in the Blue Mountains of New So... more This article presents a case study of bushfire risk communication in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia is one of the most bushfire-prone areas in the world. A documentary film, 'Fire Stories - A Lesson in Time was locally produced to raise community awareness of the risk of fire. The film presented a devastating bushfire event for townships in the Blue Mountains in 1957. The film was released in 2013 just months before devastating fires again struck the region. The impact of viewing the film in relation to the 2013 fires was evaluated. The film was found to have contributed to community resilience in areas of fire preparedness and response. This evaluation highlights the need for alternative, community-based approaches to enhance the effectiveness of community bushfire safety endeavours.
The Australian journal of emergency management, 2016
Place attachment is conceptualised as the bonding people to a place that influences their percept... more Place attachment is conceptualised as the bonding people to a place that influences their perceptions of those places. This research focused on verbal and visual experiences of residents homes and surrounds to explore whether place attachment in a bushfire-prone community mediated perceptions of risk. The analysis draws from qualitative data that used a visual and mobile method called 'Photovoice', coupled with in-depth interviews, to investigate the relationship between place attachment and perceptions of bushfire risk in hazard-prone settings. Located in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, New South Wales, this research established that place attachment, as mediated b longevity in place and familiarity to place, provided the context for certain perceptions and experiences of bushfire risk. The information garnered from this research can be important for more effective bushfire risk communications that are targeted and tailored to account for residents' attachments to h...
Animals, 2021
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution
The Natural History of Sydney, 2010
The Natural History of Sydney, 2010
Healthy People in a Healthy Environment - Key Directions Statement, 2020
Our health is inextricably linked with the health of our environment and with our social and cult... more Our health is inextricably linked with the health of our environment and with our social and cultural connections to it, something that has been long recognised by First Australians. The next few years are a rare and critical opportunity for the world to change course and to lead the transformative change needed to tackle the climate and biodiversity crisis as well as to ensure that the health-culture-nature connection is forefront and centre of all future goals, frameworks and policies. This Key Directions Statement seeks to inspire and facilitate a whole-of-community approach to developing and implementing policy and action that achieve positive human and environmental health outcomes.
Healthy People in a Healthy Environment - Key Directions Statement, 2020
Australian Zoologist, Mar 17, 2014
This paper analyses the complex social and political dynamics of feral horse management policy in... more This paper analyses the complex social and political dynamics of feral horse management policy in Guy Fawkes River National Park, NSW, and also suggests ways in which it might be made more effective. Cultural, historical and ecological dimensions of horse management are examined through an analysis of the government-led decision-making process, since an aerial cull of horses in October 2000. The paper focuses on challenges of effective community involvement when top-down management processes (e.g., centralized decision-making by government) are imposed. A key question addressed in this paper is who should be the final arbiter and by what process should decisions be made? The paper shows that it is the processes of social interaction in decision-making that determine substantive outcomes, rather than technical scientific details about ecology or biology. Several weaknesses in decisionmaking were identified. First, inadequacy of community consultation workshops for achieving genuine stakeholder input and satisfaction. Second was a well-intentioned public consultation that resulted in management policy being oversold in support of special interest groups. Third was over-reliance on traditional science which proved ineffective in resolving this value-laden conflict. Improvements in decision-making and management policy can come from using a "policy oriented" approach that brings a systematic focus on complex, interactive ecological, social, political and economic dimensions. Recommendations to improve the decision-making process are offered, including alternative means for community consultation, better integration of science with values, and keeping decision-making power localised (and strategies for doing so). It can be reasonably expected that these recommendations can improve management policy, with a minimum of additional resources.
The Biology of Deer, 1992
International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability
The Australian journal of emergency management, Oct 1, 2016
Nature Sustainability
The 2020 global spatial targets for protected areas set by the Convention on Biological Diversity... more The 2020 global spatial targets for protected areas set by the Convention on Biological Diversity have almost been achieved, but management effectiveness remains deficient. Personnel shortages are widely cited as major contributing factors but have not previously been quantified. Using data from 176 countries and territories, we estimate a current maximum of 555,000 terrestrial protected area personnel worldwide (one per 37 km2), including 286,000 rangers (one per 72 km2), far short of published guidance on required densities. Expansion by 2030 to 30% coverage of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures is widely agreed as a minimum for safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystem services. We project that effective management of this expanded system will require approximately 3 million personnel (one per 13 km2), including more than 1.5 million rangers or equivalents (one per 26 km2). Parallel improvements in resourcing, working conditions and capacity are re...
Children & Nature Network, Nov 22, 2018
This RIRDC publication assesses the complex social, economic and environmental factors impacting ... more This RIRDC publication assesses the complex social, economic and environmental factors impacting on small-scale rural communities in the eastern edges of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area(GBMWHA. It assesses the role of agri-industries as landscape buffers to the neighbouring World Heritage Area. The research explores how local government planning might be improved to help this vulnerable but essential peri-urban farming community. In conjunction with targeted representative landholders, tools were developed to assist in enhancing the economic and environmental resilience of agri-industries involved in diverse modes of production. The report is targeted at the individuals and families undertaking a range of agribusinesses in the Hawkesbury-Nepean region, and aspects of the complex challenges faced by these farming communities. This report will also be of interest to regional and local government, environmental advocates, natural resource managers and others interested in the critical buffer zones between encroaching urban sprawls and naturally significant areas
Animals : an Open Access Journal from MDPI, 2021
Simple Summary Knowledge of the welfare status of wild animals is critical for informing debates ... more Simple Summary Knowledge of the welfare status of wild animals is critical for informing debates about how we interact with them. However, methodology to enable assessment of the welfare of free-roaming wild animals has been lacking. In this study, we assessed the use of remote camera traps to non-invasively identify individual free-roaming wild horses and evaluate an extensive range of welfare indicators. Camera trapping was successful in detecting and identifying horses across a range of habitats including woodlands where horses could not be directly observed. Twelve indicators of welfare were assessed with equal frequency using both still images and video, with an additional five indicators assessed on video. This is the first time such a methodology has been described for assessing a range of welfare indicators in free-roaming wild animals. The methodology described can also be adjusted and applied to other species, enabling significant advances to be made in the field of wild a...
This article presents a case study of bushfire risk communication in the Blue Mountains of New So... more This article presents a case study of bushfire risk communication in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia is one of the most bushfire-prone areas in the world. A documentary film, 'Fire Stories - A Lesson in Time was locally produced to raise community awareness of the risk of fire. The film presented a devastating bushfire event for townships in the Blue Mountains in 1957. The film was released in 2013 just months before devastating fires again struck the region. The impact of viewing the film in relation to the 2013 fires was evaluated. The film was found to have contributed to community resilience in areas of fire preparedness and response. This evaluation highlights the need for alternative, community-based approaches to enhance the effectiveness of community bushfire safety endeavours.
The Australian journal of emergency management, 2016
Place attachment is conceptualised as the bonding people to a place that influences their percept... more Place attachment is conceptualised as the bonding people to a place that influences their perceptions of those places. This research focused on verbal and visual experiences of residents homes and surrounds to explore whether place attachment in a bushfire-prone community mediated perceptions of risk. The analysis draws from qualitative data that used a visual and mobile method called 'Photovoice', coupled with in-depth interviews, to investigate the relationship between place attachment and perceptions of bushfire risk in hazard-prone settings. Located in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, New South Wales, this research established that place attachment, as mediated b longevity in place and familiarity to place, provided the context for certain perceptions and experiences of bushfire risk. The information garnered from this research can be important for more effective bushfire risk communications that are targeted and tailored to account for residents' attachments to h...
Animals, 2021
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution
The Natural History of Sydney, 2010
The Natural History of Sydney, 2010
Healthy People in a Healthy Environment - Key Directions Statement, 2020
Our health is inextricably linked with the health of our environment and with our social and cult... more Our health is inextricably linked with the health of our environment and with our social and cultural connections to it, something that has been long recognised by First Australians. The next few years are a rare and critical opportunity for the world to change course and to lead the transformative change needed to tackle the climate and biodiversity crisis as well as to ensure that the health-culture-nature connection is forefront and centre of all future goals, frameworks and policies. This Key Directions Statement seeks to inspire and facilitate a whole-of-community approach to developing and implementing policy and action that achieve positive human and environmental health outcomes.
Healthy People in a Healthy Environment - Key Directions Statement, 2020
Australian Zoologist, Mar 17, 2014
This paper analyses the complex social and political dynamics of feral horse management policy in... more This paper analyses the complex social and political dynamics of feral horse management policy in Guy Fawkes River National Park, NSW, and also suggests ways in which it might be made more effective. Cultural, historical and ecological dimensions of horse management are examined through an analysis of the government-led decision-making process, since an aerial cull of horses in October 2000. The paper focuses on challenges of effective community involvement when top-down management processes (e.g., centralized decision-making by government) are imposed. A key question addressed in this paper is who should be the final arbiter and by what process should decisions be made? The paper shows that it is the processes of social interaction in decision-making that determine substantive outcomes, rather than technical scientific details about ecology or biology. Several weaknesses in decisionmaking were identified. First, inadequacy of community consultation workshops for achieving genuine stakeholder input and satisfaction. Second was a well-intentioned public consultation that resulted in management policy being oversold in support of special interest groups. Third was over-reliance on traditional science which proved ineffective in resolving this value-laden conflict. Improvements in decision-making and management policy can come from using a "policy oriented" approach that brings a systematic focus on complex, interactive ecological, social, political and economic dimensions. Recommendations to improve the decision-making process are offered, including alternative means for community consultation, better integration of science with values, and keeping decision-making power localised (and strategies for doing so). It can be reasonably expected that these recommendations can improve management policy, with a minimum of additional resources.
The Biology of Deer, 1992
International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability