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Strategic Spatial Governance: Deriving Social–Ecological Frameworks for Managing Landscapes and Regions

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Since the 1980s, watersheds or catchments have been the primary regions used for natural resource management in many countries. Catchments however, often do not represent the range of biophysical and social characteristics of importance for effective resource governance. The requirements for spatial definition of resource governance egions have received little analysis in science or policy. Research on ‘place’ attachment and community participation in resource management provides a grounding to re-examine such regional arrangements. This chapter describes three characteristics considered to be of priority importance in identifying regional boundaries for resource governance. Firstly, the boundaries of resource governance regions should enclose areas of high interest and importance to local residents. Secondly, the biophysical characteristics of a resource governance region should be as homogenous as possible. Thirdly, the nature and reach of environmental externalities of resource use should determine the size and nesting of resource management regions. An example of the application of these concepts to derive a hierarchy of nested regions for the State of New South Wales, Australia is provided. The results have been used by the New South Wales Government and the Electoral Commission to reconsider local government, natural resource management regions, and representative democracy within the State. Wider applications might include review of municipal boundaries and regional governance frameworks in other nations and across the European Union.

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  1. Institute for Rural Futures and UNESCO Centre for Bioregional Resource Management, University of New England, NSW, Australia

    David J Brunckhorst, Ian Reeve, Phil Morley & Karl Bock

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  1. Department of Primary Industries, P.O. Box 4166, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia

    Christopher Pettit (Dr.) (Dr.)

  2. RMIT University School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences, GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne VIC 3001, Australia

    William Cartwright (Prof.) (Prof.)

  3. Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne, Grattan St, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia

    Ian Bishop (Prof.) (Prof.)

  4. Department of Primary Industries, P.O. Box 4166, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia

    Kim Lowell (Prof.) (Prof.)

  5. The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane 4067, Australia

    David Pullar (Dr.) (Dr.)

  6. Department of Sustainability and Environment, 123 Brown St, Heidelberg, Victoria 3054, Australia

    David Duncan (Dr.) (Dr.)

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Brunckhorst, D.J., Reeve, I., Morley, P., Bock, K. (2008). Strategic Spatial Governance: Deriving Social–Ecological Frameworks for Managing Landscapes and Regions. In: Pettit, C., Cartwright, W., Bishop, I., Lowell, K., Pullar, D., Duncan, D. (eds) Landscape Analysis and Visualisation. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69168-6_13

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