207-413 Community Natural Resource Management

On completion, students should be able to demonstrate sound understanding of theories underpinning community participation in management, and will have practised techniques and processes in group facilitation and community assessment, planning and management of resources.

The content is presented under seven main headings:

• philosophy and evolution of participation and community management;

• models of community management of forests and other natural resources - overseas and in Australia;

• policy and institutional issues in community management;

• process and techniques in community enquiry, planning and research;

• issues in Koori community resource management;

• forms of evaluation in community management programs; and

• collaboration and conflict management.

A 3000-word assignment in specialist interest area (40% of final marks); a practical exercise (30% of final marks); a two-hour final examination (30% of final marks).

• M Buchy and S Hoverman, Understanding Public Participation in Forest Planning in Australia. How Can We Learn from Each Other?. ANU Forestry Occasional Paper 99.2, 1999.
• M Hobley, Participatory Forestry: The Process of Change in India and Nepal. Overseas Development Institute, 1996.
• I Scoones and J Thompson (eds), Beyond Farmer First: Rural People's Knowledge, Agricultural Research and Extension Practice. International Technology Publications, 1994.
• K Wilson and G E B Morren, Systems Approaches for Improvement in Agriculture and Resource Management. McMillan, 1990.