* Approaches to landscape futures analysis.
* Integration of social ecological and resource science approaches for planning and management at regional landscape scales.
* Contemporary application of integrated ecosystem management across multiple jurisdictions and resource uses (eg, applications of CPR Institutions; regional scale biosphere reserve models).
* Institutional arrangements facilitating or constraining ecosystem management across landscapes.
* Planning for regional management at the land-sea interface.

Goals

* Facilitate interaction and integration among different social, ecological and resource science approaches in dealing with 'big picture' sustainability issues
* Enhance methods for integration of social and environmental issues for planning and management at regional landscape scales
* Facilitate integration of various ecological, social and cultural understandings of the environment and the incorporation of diverse knowledge systems into resource issue dialogues
* Examine how institutional arrangements and objectives facilitate and constrain linkages between social scientists and natural resource managers and local communities
* Distil innovative approaches for landscape futures analysis with application to a variety of natural resource management situations.
* Learn from novel or relatively untested theories, ideas and applications of large scale integrated resource management across multiple jurisdictions.
* Refereed published book of selected contributions integrated across the conference themes & goals.

A CD-ROM produced for this conference may be ordered by contacting the Institute for Rural Futures.

Major Sponsors

• UNESCO
• US Department of Defense
• NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service
• Environment Australia
• US Environmental Protection Agency
• Desert Research Institute (Reno, Nevada, USA)
• Australian Department of Defence
• Ecosystem Management, University of New England

Last modified:Jan 18th, 2006
Updated by Michael Coleman