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Understanding Public Participation in Forest Planning in Australia: How Can We Learn From Each Other?

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Title: Understanding Public Participation in Forest Planning in Australia: How Can We Learn From Each Other?
Author(s): Buchy, Marlene
Hoverman, S
Averill, C
Date published: 1999
Publisher: Canberra, ACT: Forestry, The Australian National Unniversity
Series/Report no.: Occasional Paper (ANU Forestry): No. 99/2
Description: 
A round table discussion on public participation in forest planning, during a meeting of the Forest Planners Working group in February 1997 at the ANU, revealed a wealth of unexplored and unrecorded experiences of public participation across the country. It became clear that public participation, which is a legal requirement in most states, was perceived and implemented in different ways by different government agencies to various degrees of success. The first author who attended part of the meeting, could sense some ambient frustration at the ever increasing energy and resources devoted by the various forest agencies to involve the public in planning matters, while the very same 'public' never seemed to be satisfied and was making more and more unreasonable demands. Subsequent discussions with NRE Victoria, DNR Queensland, Forestry Tasmania and CALM WA reiterated that a collaborative effort to systematically record and analyse the experiences of public participation in forestry planning could deliver concrete learning outputs valid for all. Thanks to a grant from NRE Victoria, DNR Queensland and the ANU we designed a research program. It was based on reviewing relevant literature on participatory management processes and conducting field surveys to 1) develop an analytical framework , 2) record field realities in 4 states Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia 3) analyse the processes in those states and 4) put forward ideas and recommendations for further consultation processes. This paper reports on the various findings of the study.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/146519
ISSN: 1441-0028

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