A new paper on agriculture and environment trade-offs by INFFER team members Anna Roberts and David Pannell, together with Graeme Doole (University of Waikato) and Olga Vigiak (DPI, Victoria) is now available in the journal Agricultural Systems. Entitled “Agricultural land management strategies to reduce phosphorus loads in the Gippsland Lakes, Australia”, the paper provides a fascinating read more »
read more...Decision Point is the monthly magazine of the Environmental Decisions Group (EDG). The latest issue, #55 – November 2011, has a feature on INFFER along with a number of other articles on environmental decision making, including an editorial on ‘Sufficiency v. Efficiency’ by EDG Director Hugh Possingham. One of the strengths of INFFER as a tool read more »
read more...Over recent months INFFER has been used to assess two significant wetland projects, one for the Moolort wetlands in north-central Victoria and the other for Lake Connewarre in the Corangamite CMA region. Both projects have used an INFFER analysis to improve the understanding of the values and threats associated with these important natural assets and read more »
read more...Dave Pannell had a productive trip to China in October 2011, discussing INFFER and water-related issues with researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and from various Chinese Universities (Tsinghua University, University of Beijing and Shaanxi Normal University). It’s well known that China’s rapid economic growth has resulted in significant environmental problems. Chinese officials and read more »
read more...In June 2011, Rangelands NRM ran an INFFER asset identification and filtering process for the Midwest subregion. The full-day workshop was attended by pastoralists, state agency staff, shire staff, indigenous representatives and past project officers. 36 assets were identified and subsequently filtered using the pre-assessment criteria. Of these 36 assets, 7 were considered to be read more »
read more...We are very pleased to announce that the foundation paper on INFFER is now ‘In Press’ at Land Use Policy, an international and interdisciplinary journal concerned with the social, economic, political, legal, physical and planning aspects of urban and rural land use. Pannell, D.J., Roberts, A.M., Park, G., Alexander, J., Curatolo, A. and Marsh, S. (2011). read more »
read more...A detailed INFFER assessment has contributed to major new funding being award to North Central Catchment Management Authority. The North Central CMA is delighted to receive news of major funding for the Moolort Plains wetlands in central Victoria. On the 8th September Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Senator Joe Ludwig announced funding of $919,000 read more »
read more...INFFER has received a strong vote of support from the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) with the confirmation of future funding for the project. The Natural Resources Investment Program (NRIP) has committed $250,000 per year for the next two years to support ongoing implementation of INFFER in Victoria. The funding will enable five read more »
read more...Dave and Anna are just back from an intense but very enjoyable four-week visit to Canada. The trip revolved around our research and decision tools for environmental management. There was a lot of interest and enthusiasm from our Canadian hosts. Canada has a similar weakness to Australia in that most of their public investments in read more »
read more...
In the European Union, as in many parts of the world, there is increasing pressure to demonstrate that environmental projects achieve expected outcomes and are cost-effective. In recent times we have collaborated with a team from the University of Florence to examine the application of INFFER to agro-environmental assets in the Mugello and Valdisieve areas read more »