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Integrated landscape-scale cassowary conservation at Mission Beach : Synthesis of MTSRF Biodiversity Planning Research 2006-2011
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Integrated landscape-scale cassowary conservation at Mission Beach : Synthesis of MTSRF Biodiversity Planning Research 2006-2011

Rosemary Hill, C J Robinson, P L Pert, K J Williams, T O Malley, R A Grace, D A Westcott, A P Dale and Scott Lieske
Reef and Rainforest Research Centre Ltd.
2011
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https://publications.csiro.au/rpr/download?pid=csiro:EP111725&dsid=DS2View
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Abstract

Marine and Tropical Sciences Research Facility (MTSRF) Transition Project Final Report. Integrated landscape-scale conservation aims to achieve broad biodiversity goals, such as halting the decline of native habitat extent and condition, while meeting the specific requirements of rare, threatened and endangered species. This context of integration requires attention to the social, cultural and economic dimensions that are associated with the multiple functions of landscapes in the lives of human communities. This project, undertaken through action co-research in a case study at Mission Beach in Australia's tropical forest, delivered a new social-ecological model for integrated landscape-scale conservation. Collaboration through a multi-scalar, multi-actor design cycle extends its basis in adaptive management-deliberate multi-scalar linkages address the problems of lack of knowledge incorporation, and lack of vertical and horizontal institutional alignment, that have frustrated adaptive management approaches to integration. The planning science in this project adds significant weight to the growing body of evidence that effective management of biodiversity and natural resources requires multi-level collaborative governance, and brokering organisations to facilitate it, not simply devolution to local-scale institutions as previously envisaged. These findings challenge the principle of subsidiarity in environmental governance design. Several key aspects about the conditions under which multi-scalar collaboration can be effective have been elucidated: adoption is required of practices to reduce knowledge uncertainty, facilitate agreement between contested interests, broker alignment across diverse institutions in the planning system, and recognize cultural diversity.

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