Participatory monitoring and evaluation to aid investment in natural resource manager capacity at a range of scales

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 184, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 7207-7220

  Brown, Peter R ^a   Jacobs, Brent ^b   Leith, Peat ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Capacity. Land manager; Livelihoods analysis; Natural resource management (NRM); Participatory M E

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CAPACITY BUILDING; CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS; CATCHMENT SCALE; COLLECTIVE ACTION; ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; LAND MANAGERS; LIVELIHOODS ANALYSIS; LOCAL COMMUNITY; MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS; NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; NEW SOUTH WALES; PRIVATE LANDHOLDERS; PUBLIC FUNDS; SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES; TACIT KNOWLEDGE; TEMPORAL SCALE; TOPDOWN;

CATCHMENTS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS;

NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

CAPACITY BUILDING; CATCHMENT; COLLECTIVE ACTION; INVESTMENT; LANDHOLDING; NATURAL RESOURCE; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAPACITY BUILDING; CATCHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; INVESTMENT; LAND USE; PARTICIPATORY MANAGEMENT; RURAL POPULATION;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INVESTMENTS; NEW SOUTH WALES;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 84871849133     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-2491-y     Document Type: Article

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