The Community and Catchments Conference


Thursday, 18 August

Hosted by the Institute for Land, Water and Society at Charles Sturt University

Attendance is free, including lunch. However attendees MUST register on this website or by phone on (02) 6051 9685. Registrations will be accepted from Thursday, 2 June.  Registrations close Monday 15th August 2005.


What does sustainability, resource use, rural communities, social development, landcare, water and vegetation reform and environmental policy have in common?

They will all be discussed at the “Community and Catchments” Conference on Thursday 18 August 2005 at Wagga Wagga Campus, Charles Sturt University.

This free, one-day conference will highlight the wide range of applied social research on land water and society being conducted in the Murray-Darling Basin, by the Institute for Land, Water and Society. This conference is being held preceding the 5th NSW Landcare/Catchment Management Forum in Wagga.

The conference is aimed at:

·    regional land managers,

  • conservation planners,
  • catchment managers, and
  • everyone interested in community conservation and sustainable land management in the Murray-Darling Basin.
  • people from northern Victoria and central and western NSW are especially invited to attend.

More than a dozen presenters including Professor Margaret Alston, Professor Allan Curtis, Associate-Professor Ian Gray and Dr Catherine Allan will provide informative talks on a variety of topics including:

  • Implementing regional scale adaptive management
  • Understanding the why and how of community engagement,
  • What is social capital and is it really important,
  • Improving governance arrangements for regional catchment management,
  • Evaluating catchments scale programs and projects

The full program and a comprehensive list of speakers and titles will be available at the end of May.

Abstracts from Institute of Land, Water and Society members are invited. Please see guidelines for further information.

Attendance is free, including lunch. However attendees MUST register on this website or by phone. Registrations will be accepted from Wednesday, 1 June. Mark the date in your diary now.

The conference will be held at CSU’s Wagga Campus. Accommodation information is available from Tourism Wagga Wagga or call 1800 100 122. Flight and airport information is available from Wagga Wagga City Council Airport Services.

For all preliminary enquiries contact Jonathon Howard at jhoward@csu.edu.au.

For information about the 5th NSW Landcare/Catchment Management Forum in Wagga on the 19th - 20th August see http://www.murrumbidgee.cma.nsw.gov.au/footprint.html

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