“INFFER provides logic regarding funding projects with higher ecological benefit and that are efficient, of lower risk, and that address know threats (already in place). The process and way of thinking about these priorities is better documented and more logical in INFFER than in our current process.” Workshop participant, Murray CMA 2010
read more...“INFFER provides a logical, step by step process to arrive at a justifiable position.” Workshop participant, Glenelg Hopkins CMA 2010
read more...“It provides accountability, transparency and makes people think and plan about projects. Pet projects and output-focussed projects will be minimised or at least justified.” Workshop participant, Burnett Mary Regional Group, 2010
read more...“I think I will always have difficulty with the idea that we can’t ‘save’ everything but I think this process will at least ensure we do a good job at saving what we can.” Workshop participant, Port Phillip Westernport CMA, 2009
read more...“INFFER has helped the North Central CMA move to investing in spatially explicit assets. It has encouraged a culture of being explicit about what we value and why we value it. More importantly it has forced us to be more disciplined about the threats at play and be ‘hard-nosed’ in our assessment as to whether read more »
read more...“INFFER really does have the potential to make NRM investments much more targeted, rigorous and transparent. I would highly recommend INFFER to anyone willing to make a commitment to good planning for on-ground investments at a regional scale.” Paul Koch, Senior Ecologist and Planner, Greening Australia
read more...“The [Gippsland Lakes] Taskforce believes this work provides the most transparent and robust framework to justify future cost-effective public investment that has been done to date and looks forward to further improving components of the analysis in the future.” Chris Barry, Gippsland Lakes Planning Officer
read more...“The logic behind the assessment is really clear and thorough. I like the way you can’t ‘fudge’ it. Anywhere you have fudged it, whether intentionally or not, it’s glaringly apparent and that forces you to go back and rethink and redefine your goals or proposed actions, which makes the overall assessment much more robust. And read more »
read more...“INFFER has influenced changes (in the project) by testing the logic for why activities are undertaken. For example, a workshop was held to fill knowledge gaps relating to native fish habitat by drawing in a range of experts.” Jon Leevers, North Central Catchment Management Authority
read more...“To develop our Catchment Action Plan, the Central West Catchment Management Authority needed to know what assets our community and stakeholders valued and where they were. The first stages of INFFER provided an excellent mechanism to capture this information in a useful and usable format.” Carolyn Raine, Manager – Strategy & Planning, Central West Catchment read more »
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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 »