Relevant reference group presentations, workshop information and materials can be found here after reference group meetings.
Jol Taber, Environmental Liaison Officer for the National Farmers' Federation, recently visited Perth Region NRM to deliver a presentation on the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.
Jol has made his presentation documents available:
Rumours, myths and misconceptions… Farming and national environment law
Environment liaison officer national farmers' federation
Farming and national environment law - The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act)
He has also provided a number of useful links;
EPBC;
http://www.environment.gov.au/epbc/index.html
ERT reporting link;
http://www.environment.gov.au/epbc/pmst/index.html
SPRAT profiles link;
http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl
Significant Impact Guidelines 1.1:
Matters of National Environmental Significance
http://www.environment.gov.au/epbc/publications/nes-guidelines.html
Should you be interested in receiving more information from Jol please contact Perth Region NRM.
Seminar Monday 9th of May, City of South Perth.
Professor Hardisty examines the long term environmental, social and economic value, in monetary term, of native Australian bushland, using a number of examples Bush Forever sites in the Southwest of WA.
Estimating a "dollar value" for environmental assets and the ecosystem services they provide, allows decision-makers to integrate these issues fully into a like-for-like options assessment. This kind of approach is extremely useful in communicating to wider audiences, industry, government and developers, just how valuable bushland can be to society, and open up the possibility of considering appropriate compensation for society when bushland is cleared, or better, show just how important it is to retain bushland.
While money will never replace ethics as a reason for action, money is the common language of decision-making worldwide, and putting a price on environmental and social damage provides a price signal to society that shapes decisions at every level.
Paul Hardisty is Global Director Sustainability and EcoNomics for WorleyParsons, and Adjunct Professor in Sustainability at University of Western Australia School of Business, and Visiting Professor in Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London. He is also a contributor to President Gorbachev's Climate Change Task Force, and a Director of Green Cross, an international NGO dedicated to fostering a value change towards a more sustainable society. His latest book Environmental and Economic Sustainability, has just been published by CRC Press in New York. For fun, Paul competes in Ironman triathlons.
Part 1- What is
Sustainability?
Part 2- There's no Planet
B
Part 3- Deconstructing
traditional market values: Environmental Economists and value
estimates
Part 4- How
much are Carnaby's cockatoos or a wetland in the Southern suburbs
worth to Perth's economy?
Part 5- Comparative Option
Evaluations and the Net Present Value Equation
Part 6- Option
analysis: A 'win-win' always exists
Part 7- Are we
borrowing too heavily from the future?
Question Time: Seminar participants were given the opportunity to
comment and to grill Paul on a number of issues, and he kindly
obliged. The questions have been paraphrased.
Q1 Can you put a price on rain?
Q2 Have you got any ideas on how to get Councils to support home
owners to maintain vegetation on their properties?
Q3 Carbon tax- do you have an idea on how to make a 'carbon price'
work?
Part 8 - Question
Time
Q3 Response continued
Q4 Did you quantify the rate of change in politics and economy
over time that it would take to outpace the destruction of the
environment?
Part 9- Question
Time
Q5 How should we as individuals, councils and Friend's of
Groups take the 'next steps'?
Q6 What is the title of your book and where do I get a copy?
Part 10- Question
Time
Q7 What part of your book do you go from renewable energy to
nuclear energy as a solution?
Q8 How do we know that when Synergy charges us a rate for sourcing
energy from sustainable sources that that is actually where the
money goes, and not just into a bank account somewhere?
Part 11 - Question Time
Q9 Can democracy handle scientific complexity?
Q10 How can environmentalists market their product?
Part 12 - Question Time
Q11 How can the sense of urgency for the conservation of Black
Cockatoos be expressed to the government and the people of
Perth?
Q12 How can we manage the population growth curve and implement a
different model to the 'Business as usual' approach?
On Thursday the 5th of May, the East Reference Group from Perth
Region NRM held a Community Forum on integrating bush care and
bushfire management. This forum was instigated by East Reference
Group due to concern about damage to flora and fauna during recent
bushfires.
The presenters at the forum gave a range of views on what is 'best
management' of the bush to reduce damage by bushfires and to
maintain habitat for all creatures great and minute.
Please see presentations below and contact Perth Region NRM for
more information.
WAFA's 16-point plan for wildfire preparedness and response in WA
Bush Block Fire Management Plan - Bob Huston
FESA East Reference Group Presentation - Kathy Nastov
