Natural Decisions colleague, Anna Roberts, together with Robin Kundis Craig (William H. Leary Professor of Law at the University of Utah) have just had published a new paper that presents a comparative law view of nonpoint source/diffuse source water pollution issues in the US and Australia. Titled “When Will Governments Regulate Nonpoint Source Pollution? A […]
Posted 30 January 2015 in News
Recently I participated in an interesting workshop in Canberra, organised to discuss the effectiveness of agri-environment schemes in delivering conservation outcomes in Australia. ‘Paying farmers for biodiversity – agri-environment schemes in Australia’ involved ecologists, economists, managers and policy-makers from around the country, and was organised by three early career researchers, Fiona Gibson (UWA) together with David […]
Posted 20 December 2014 in News
Over recent weeks Natural Decisions, together with Scarlet Consulting, has been discussing climate change and climate variability with people across North Central Victoria. This work is part of assisting the North Central CMA to develop a Carbon Action Plan for north-central Victoria, with funding from the Australian Government. To inform this plan the North Central […]
Posted 24 November 2014 in News
Natural Decisions is pleased to announce that the NRM Planning for Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment, undertaken in partnership with Spatial Vision for 7 Victorian CMAs (coordinated by Corangamite CMA), has received the 2014 Victorian Spatial Excellence Award for Sustainability and Environment. The Victorian Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute and the Spatial Industries Business Association make […]
Posted 2 October 2014 in News
The latest edition of Decision Point, the monthly magazine of the Environmental Decisions Group (EDG), has a series of articles on environmental decision making. Two of these focus on matters associated with decision metrics and investment evaluation. The first, by Fiona Gibson and David Pannell, focuses on the importance of using robust decision metrics to underpin sound […]
Posted 15 September 2014 in News
Recently the newest member of the Natural Decisions team, Michelle Dickson attended the 7th Australian Stream Management conference in sunny Townsville. Michelle presented a paper, on behalf of both Natural Decisions and the West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority, on the lessons learned when trying to balance productive catchments and protection of important environmental assets. Michelle shared insights […]
Posted 20 August 2014 in News
Over recent months we have been working with Spatial Vision to examine the potential impacts of climate change across seven Victorian CMA regions. Together we developed a novel, rigorous and transparent method of vulnerability assessment that has generated spatial views of exposure, sensitivity, potential impact, adaptive capacity and vulnerability for a range of NRM assets. The […]
Posted 6 August 2014 in News
The last 12 months has been somewhat of a whirlwind for our fledgling business. We’ve had the opportunity to work on fascinating projects, with terrific organisations, and met a bunch of knowledgeable and passionate people. We’re on a steep learning curve but it’s been most enjoyable so far! Since we started, on the 1st July […]
Posted 14 July 2014 in News
Integrating climate range considerations into natural resource management planning is a challenging, but fascinating endeavour. As we face an uncertain future from the predicted impacts of climate change, it’s not hard to be baffled and overwhelmed by complexity! Over the past few months, Natural Decisions, in partnership with Spatial Vision, has been assisting seven of the […]
Posted 28 May 2014 in News
Natural Decisions is delighted to welcome Michelle Dickson to our team. With a background in waterway health and catchment management, she is highly regarded by her peers in this sector. Michelle worked in various roles at West Gippsland CMA from 2004 – 2014, most recently as Water Team Leader. In this role she was responsible for […]
Posted 16 April 2014 in News
Over the past couple of years Natural Decisions has been working closely with Kilter Rural and Accounting for Nature (AfN) to develop an environmental accounting method for woodland birds. The method, originally accredited in November 2021, has since been trialled extensively on Kilter managed properties in northern Victoria, which has led to a number of […]
Natural Decisions, in collaboration with the Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation, have developed a Tullaroop Integrated Catchment Management Plan (ICMP) for the North Central CMA and Central Highlands Water. The Tullaroop catchment provides a range of additional environmental, social, cultural and economic values to communities in central Victoria. It supplies drinking water for the […]
Natural Decisions recently completed a project to better protect the Barham water supply catchment. The work was conducted in partnership with Naturallogic (http://naturallogic.org) and Water Futures (https://waterfutures.net.au). The Barham catchment, in the southern Victorian Otways region, supplies drinking water to the communities of Apollo Bay, Marengo and Skenes Creek, and surrounding rural settlements. A participatory […]
In 2020 Natural Decisions has been pleased to work with Kilter Rural in support of their work to develop environmental accounts for their properties in northern Victoria. We have a long and productive collaboration with Kilter Rural, which extends back to 2004 when they first established their FFL Winlaton farmlands near Lake Boga. On 9000 […]
Higher summer temperatures and greater frequency of extreme temperature events are major climate change related threats in the Mallee. A project, funded by DELWP, Agriculture Victoria and the Mallee CMA, was developed to model yield impacts on irrigated horticulture crops (citrus, grapes and almonds) under current and future (2030, 2050 and 2070) climate scenarios and […]