Effective collaboration and governance processes to underpin large-scale natural resource management projects: the Australian Feral Camel Management Project experience
Quentin Hart A B and Andrew Bubb A
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A c/- Ninti One Limited, PO Box 3971, Alice Springs, NT 0871, Australia.
B Corresponding author. Email: info@nintione.com.au
The Rangeland Journal 38(2) 117-123 https://doi.org/10.1071/RJ15089
Submitted: 23 October 2015 Accepted: 29 February 2016 Published: 22 April 2016
Abstract
The Australian Feral Camel Management Project involved a large number of diverse formal collaborators and broader stakeholders. Establishing and maintaining formal and informal collaborations was key to the success of the project. Good governance and communication processes underpin such collaboration and support the ability of projects to be flexible and to respond to unexpected changes in operating environment and/or stakeholder concerns. A priority for the project was to establish enduring relationships that would facilitate ongoing feral camel management.
Additional keywords: feral herbivores, landscape-scale management.
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