Plantation Management – Social
Current Studies of Socioeconomic Impacts of Land Use Change
Another similar study is underway investigating the socioeconomic impacts of multiple types of land use changes in the Green Triangle Region of SA and Victoria and south west and central regions of Victoria.
Read more in the Research Project Summary (pdf)
Read more in the Project Report November 2008 (pdf)
This research is being conducted by the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Forestry ‘Communities Project’, which is investing in research into the social dimensions of Australia's forest industries to ensure our forest and plantation management is socially as well as environmentally sustainable.
The four sub-projects of the ‘Communities Project’ are examining:
- The socio-economic costs and benefits of different types of commercial forestry;
- Community attitudes towards commercial forestry, and how these change;
- Feasible and effective strategies for the forest industry to engage local communities; and
- Participatory modelling guidelines and tools to inform stakeholder dialogue about trade-offs between production, water, biodiversity, visual amenity and other community requirements.
The Communities project will undertake time series research from 2006-2012. Currently, research is focussed in three regions:
- Tasmania;
- South-west Western Australia; and
- The Green Triangle region of south-west Victoria and south-east South Australia.
Read more about the Communities Project on the CRC for Forestry Communities Website http://www.crcforestry.com.au.
