Motivating People

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Motivating People
Incentives for Australians to participate in
Sustainable Land and Water Management

• Carl Binning Many others
• CSIRO Sustainable EcosystemsGreening Australia
• BHP Billiton Iron Ore

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Structure of Talk

• Why bother?
• 7 Themes from 20 years of innovation
• 7 Themes for the future

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Percentage of regions protected
Region code region
protected AA Australian Alps 18.9 AV Avon
Wheat belt (WA) 0.5 CK Central Kimberley
(WA) 0.0 FIN Finke (NT) 0.0 GC Gibson Desert
(WA) 12.0 HAM Hampton (SA) 28.6 MGD Mitchell
Grass Downs (Qld) 0.3 WSW West and South-West
(Tas) 49.0 YAL Yalgoo (WA) 1.1 NSS South West
Slopes (NSW) 0-1
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of vegetation cleared in bioregions
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Theme 1 Regionalism56 NRM Regions Good or Bad?
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Hierarchy of Institutions
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Theme 2 The Policy Mix
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Theme 3 Duty of Care
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Theme 4 Current Regulation Destroys motivation
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Regulate at an appropriate scale
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Theme 4 Voluntarism vs Payment for Services
Intrinsic motivation, revealed preference,
crowding out
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Theme 5 Involvement of 3rd Sector
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Theme 6 Public vs Private Markets

• 3 Farms and adjoining land (2200 ha)
• Commercially unviable
• Significant environmental degradation (30)
• Wool business
• Too small scale
• Poor cost management
• Lack of capital to invest

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Biodiverse Carbon Plantings
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Business Case
Economics - NPV(3) Probability Weighted Base
Case Million, 20 Years
41.1
6.1
Land Purchased
Carbon Credits
Regeneration Costs(2)
Subdivision Costs
Lifestyle Land Subdivision
Farming Land
30.9
4.2
(1)

• Note (1) 8 discount rate
• (2) Regeneration of Kyoto compliant land
• (3) One off land purchase and scenario

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Theme 7 Pragmatic Adaptive Management
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7 Themes for the future

• Actively managed landscapes
• Clear objectives for production, conservation and
  reconstruction
• Clear Metrics
• Eg water return flows, biodiversity value
• Regulation that motivates
• Beyond development approvals
• Environmental markets (flexible regulation)
• Fish, water, carbon, biodiversity
• Private market formation
• Driven through sustainable enterprises
• Continued philanthropy and NGO growth
• Private conservation greater than public
• Sustained Voluntarism
• Community effort not crowded out
• Australians willing to pay (eg carbon price)

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Key success factors

• An audacious vision
• An interesting and important landscape
• Passionate lunatics
• Good organisational credibility
• Diplomacy and tact
• Flexibility and intuitiveness
• Effective but minimalist planning
• Patience and timing
• Get some early runs on the board
• Independent income

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