Amenity migration to attractive and accessible non-metropolitan areas changes social and environmental relations with consequences for natural resource management and landscape composition and trajectories. Lifestyler oriented rural landholders are often cast as a problem for land management and extension. Managers and some researchers see them as a cause of landscape and social fragmentation a...

Ongoing failure to resolve how wildlife and people can co-exist on private land contributes the global decline of populations. Experience in Tasmania, Australia suggests a disconnect between researchers, environmental agencies, landholders that prevents new scientific insights from translating into improved management practices. This case study based participatory action research model, describ...

The burning and the deforestation of Brazilian Amazon forest, which has been recently highlighted by international press occurs mostly on public or undesignated land, calls for an in-depth examination. This traditionally main way to grab speculate, simultaneously prove ownership its occupation. absence mapping, registration, effective regulation land property in Brazil, particularly Amazon, pla...

School of Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of Western Australia, Crawley, 6009 WA Institute for Rural Futures, University of New England, Armidale, 2351 NSW Department of Primary Industries, Bendigo, 3554 Victoria Faculty of Science and Agriculture, Charles Sturt University, Albury, 2640 NSW Tasmanian Institute of Agricultural Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 7001 Tasmania...

The goat (Capra hircus) was first introduced into Western Australia (WA) over 100 years ago and since this time have been liberated and become feral. Feral goats are now found over much of the semi-arid and arid pastoral areas of the State and as uncontrolled grazers cause significant damage to the rangeland. The use of commercialisation as a control strategy to induce landholders to reduce fer...

Portable sawmilling trials with Acacia aneura (mulga) and A. cambagei (gidgee) have been undertaken to estimate the private landholder costs associated with small-scale timber production from woodlands in western Queensland, Australia. A time study of harvesting and milling operations facilitated estimation of landholder labour input requirements. The scarcity and small size of millable logs, c...

The Nature Conservation Society of South Australia (NCSSA) Bushland Condition Monitoring Program and the South Australian Biodiversity Assessment Tool (SABAT) address this shortcoming, and provide an innovative approach to building community capacity in vegetation management. The program allows conservation volunteers, landholders and extension professionals to conduct an effective evaluation o...

Enabling Collective Action for Smallholder Market Access Discussions about poverty reduction inevitably include the need to increase small landholders’ ability to participate successfully in market exchanges. However, smallholders must be aware of new opportunities and challenges brought about by changes in the global agricultural economy. Prominent among these changes Enabling Collective Actio...

Grasslands are considered to be Australia’s most threatened ecosystems, yet relatively little is known about human preferences and attitudes which contribute to continued degradation of these landscapes. In a study conducted in south-eastern Australia, landholders were asked to assess the agricultural, ecological and aesthetic value of native grassland and other rural landscapes. The results co...