Tropical Savannas CRC

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Tropical Savannas CRC

• Future Directions

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Rationale

• Production, cultural biodiversity goals all
  rely on a sustainable human population base
  keeping people on country. This in turn depends
  on sustainable livelihoods.

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Themes/Programs

• Natural Resource Management
• Economic Futures and Livelihoods
• Policy options
• Building knowledge in savanna communities

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Theme 1 Natural Resource Management Basics

• CRC is committed to research that supports
  sustainable economic growth of northern Australia
• Pressure on resources will intensify with
  increasing value of land resources
• Planned maintenance of assets is vastly
  preferable to heroic rescue

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Theme 1 Natural Resource Management

• Focus on adaptive management
• Evaluation of options, taking full set of values
  into account
• Focus on assets and aspirations
• Management of intensive resource uses
• Delivery of improved extensive landscape
  management

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NRM Challenges

• Knowledge systems for north Australian
  development optimising tradeoffs from
  intensification (Pastoral lands, Intensive
  agriculture, wildlife management)
• Property and regional scales
• Landscape design
• Tools for extensive landscape management
• Cost-benefit analysis of options

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NRM Specifics

• Development of tools and options
• Fire ACB, Curing, On property management
• Property Intensification, infrastructure, pasture
  improvement
• Landscape design planning
• Tools for monitoring condition (RS, Indicators)
• Cost benefit analysis of options

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Theme 2 Livelihood Options

• Options Strategies for commercial and/or
  customary economic activities to complement
  orthodox uses of savanna resources
• Tourism
• carbon offsets,
• land and biodiversity stewardship and maintenance
  of ecosystem services,
• sustainable use of wildlife,
• bio-security
• Business development, governance, policy
  environment

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Research Issues - Livelihoods

• Valuing resources, services activities
• Governance institutions producing multiple
  benefits
• Packaging full range of benefits costs (people
  on country)
• What works in enterprise development

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Theme 3 Policy Options Approaches

• Analysis of investment strategies for regional
  natural resource management
• Tools to improve regional NRM planning and
  engagement
• Strategies for maximising the benefit from the
  limited available investment (State/Territory,
  NHT, NAP)
• Maximise cross-portfolio outcomes

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Theme 4 Building Capacity to cope with change

• Build on strong communications platform (GLM,
  Fire, TD, Biodiversity projects)
• Mix of traditional and non-traditional
  education/knowledge building strategies

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Prospective Partners

• Existing partners to continue
• ANU
• LWA
• Other CRCs (DK, Bushfires)
• ILC

• Mining energy
• AQIS/NAQS
• Large Pastoral Companies
• Conservation NGOs
• Regional NRM Bodies

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Partnership what does it entail?

• Identify areas of mutual interest, common goals,
  overlap of strategic objectives
• Identify resources needed to advance these goals,
  what each party can bring to the table,
  opportunities for leverage
• 7 Year commitment, but with some flexibility

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Engaging Partners some key relationships

• Cattle industry, Corporate one on one
  consultations Oct- Nov
• Mining energy
• MLA, LWA, ILC Specific proposals (tied funding)
• SMEs community organisations

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Core Partners contd

• State Territory Agencies Theme workshops
• Research providers Universities CSIRO Theme
  workshops
• Core partner meetings (mid November)

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Basics of a Re-bid

• Must demonstrate economic return on investment
• Must have strong stakeholder support, end-user
  involvement and pathways to adoption
• Must leverage resources (in-kind cash)
• Must have significant new elements need to
  re-invent, but build on existing strengths

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Timelines

• Assuming timelines as for previous rounds
• Notification of Intent 31 January 2006
• First Stage Application, with partners signed off
  30 March 2006
• Second Stage Application, including completed
  review, impact analysis 1 July 2006