Packaging innovations to sustain River Murray communities

Abstract

Project management and procedural guides on governing for a sustainable community are being piloted by three River Murray councils. Innovations incorporated into the integrated assessment and response phases of the process are identified, along with some preliminary observations on their application. The assessment phase considers change in the quantitative, qualitative, functional, and spatial characteristics of a local community's human, natural, and built capital. The capacity building task in rural Australia has been interpreted elsewhere as improving the sector's capital stocks. With its emphasis on capital accounting, adoption or adaptation of the pilot's design to other localities in the sector can contribute to that task.