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2nd International Symposium on Landscape Futures - 4-6 December 2001

• Conference details and papers are now available on the conference website.

SYMPOSIUM THEMES

Politics and sociology of landscape futures
* the history of resource management policy in Australia,
* the influences on the movement of resource management issues onto policy agendas,
* the role of discourse and problem framing in the emergence of policy consensus,
* the role of science in the framing of resource management problems,
* problems with the implementation of public policy, and
* interest groups and their influence on policy and political agendas.

Institutional design for landscape futures
* case studies of institutional design for land and water resource management,
* theories of institutional design and the derived prescriptions for good design,
* facilitating collective decisions within resource management constituencies that are inclusive of indigenous, landholder and community perspectives, and
* approaches for, and experience with, the interfacing of local commons-type resource management with institutions within higher levels of government.

Advances in landscape futures analysis
* the use of GIS, landscape modelling and scenario-building in community consultation,
* incorporating GIS, landscape modelling and scenario-building in institutional forms for regional level resource management,
* advances in the spatial analysis of social and demographic data relevant to resource management and landscape futures analysis, and
* advances in the integration of biophysical and social spatial data for resource management
and landscape futures analysis.

A CD-ROM produced for this conference may be ordered by contacting the Institute for Rural Futures.  Alternatively, please visit the conference website.