Governance standard and assessment framework for Australian natural resource management

Abstract

This Governance Standard and Assessment Framework is an outcome from the Land & Water Australia funded project Pathways to good practice in regional NRM governance. This interdisciplinary and collaborative project was conceived to assess the effectiveness of regional NRM governance and to develop a standard for good-practice NRM governance. The developmental work focussed on nine regions, located in: Tasmania (Cradle Coast, South), Victoria (Corangamite, North Central, Goulburn-Broken) and NSW (Central West, Murray, Lachlan, Northern Rivers), as well as the state jurisdictions of NSW, Victoria and Tasmania and the national level.