Fieldwork in the Australian Bush: If It Doesn't Kill You, It'll Convert You

Abstract

My first experience of fieldwork as a Catchment Project Officer set the trajectory of my career as one focused on integrated catchment management (ICM), coupled with building the capacity of communities to enable their effective engagement in water and land-use decision-making processes. Over a two-year period, I was to work with a small team and a community-based Catchment Co-ordinating Group (CCG) charged with developing the nation’s first regional-scale ICM Strategy in the vast, mostly low-rainfall, agricultural catchment of the Wimmera River (30,000 km2) in the State of Victoria, in Australia’s south-east. Show more