Over recent months we have been working with Spatial Vision to examine the potential impacts of climate change across seven Victorian CMA regions. Together we developed a novel, rigorous and transparent method of vulnerability assessment that has generated spatial views of exposure, sensitivity, potential impact, adaptive capacity and vulnerability for a range of NRM assets. The […]
Posted 6 August 2014 in News
The last 12 months has been somewhat of a whirlwind for our fledgling business. We’ve had the opportunity to work on fascinating projects, with terrific organisations, and met a bunch of knowledgeable and passionate people. We’re on a steep learning curve but it’s been most enjoyable so far! Since we started, on the 1st July […]
Posted 14 July 2014 in News
Integrating climate range considerations into natural resource management planning is a challenging, but fascinating endeavour. As we face an uncertain future from the predicted impacts of climate change, it’s not hard to be baffled and overwhelmed by complexity! Over the past few months, Natural Decisions, in partnership with Spatial Vision, has been assisting seven of the […]
Posted 28 May 2014 in News
Natural Decisions is delighted to welcome Michelle Dickson to our team. With a background in waterway health and catchment management, she is highly regarded by her peers in this sector. Michelle worked in various roles at West Gippsland CMA from 2004 – 2014, most recently as Water Team Leader. In this role she was responsible for […]
Posted 16 April 2014 in News
Given the short agricultural history, long lead times and low population density, diffuse source (non-point) water quality problems are only now emerging in Australia. The Great Barrier Reef (Waterhouse et al. 2010), Gippsland Lakes (Roberts et al. 2012), Peel-Harvey Inlet (Summers et al. 1999) and the Murray-Darling system (Ryan et al. 2009) are notable examples, […]
Posted 22 March 2014 in News
Following on from our recent work, assisting the West Gippsland CMA in the development of the Corner Inlet Water Quality Improvement Plan, Natural Decisions has recently commenced a new project undertaking an INFFER assessment of the Corner Inlet Ramsar site. Corner Inlet is one of 64 wetland areas in Australia that have been recognised under the […]
Posted 5 March 2014 in News
Located in tropical north eastern Queensland, the Wet Tropics NRM region is an expansive area of some 2.2 million hectares. It is a place of great beauty and possibly the world’s greatest ecological diversity, and is the only region to boast two contrasting World Heritage Areas side by side – the Wet Tropical rainforests and […]
Posted 24 January 2014 in News
Bushfire management involves making decisions about complex issues that involve people, communities, stakeholders and organisations with many different values, perceptions and objectives, and who variably and differentially bear some of the costs and benefits involved in most strategies and actions undertaken. The Natural Decisions team has just commenced a new project for the Bushfire CRC […]
Posted 4 January 2014 in News
Over the past few months Anna Roberts and Geoff Park from the Natural Decisions team have been working with the West Gippsland CMA to finalise the Corner Inlet Water Quality Improvement Plan (WQIP). The Corner Inlet Ramsar Site includes the areas known as Corner Inlet and Nooramunga and is the most southerly marine embayment and […]
Posted 19 December 2013 in News
mixing a little theory, logic and common sense leads to better outcomes. Earlier this year, David Pannell started a series of short articles on his Pannell Discussions blog, on the topic of ‘ranking environmental projects’. To quote David … ” My intention was go through the basic process, step by step, outlining the logic and […]
Posted 13 November 2013 in News
Over the past couple of years Natural Decisions has been working closely with Kilter Rural and Accounting for Nature (AfN) to develop an environmental accounting method for woodland birds. The method, originally accredited in November 2021, has since been trialled extensively on Kilter managed properties in northern Victoria, which has led to a number of […]
Natural Decisions, in collaboration with the Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation, have developed a Tullaroop Integrated Catchment Management Plan (ICMP) for the North Central CMA and Central Highlands Water. The Tullaroop catchment provides a range of additional environmental, social, cultural and economic values to communities in central Victoria. It supplies drinking water for the […]
Natural Decisions recently completed a project to better protect the Barham water supply catchment. The work was conducted in partnership with Naturallogic (http://naturallogic.org) and Water Futures (https://waterfutures.net.au). The Barham catchment, in the southern Victorian Otways region, supplies drinking water to the communities of Apollo Bay, Marengo and Skenes Creek, and surrounding rural settlements. A participatory […]
In 2020 Natural Decisions has been pleased to work with Kilter Rural in support of their work to develop environmental accounts for their properties in northern Victoria. We have a long and productive collaboration with Kilter Rural, which extends back to 2004 when they first established their FFL Winlaton farmlands near Lake Boga. On 9000 […]
Higher summer temperatures and greater frequency of extreme temperature events are major climate change related threats in the Mallee. A project, funded by DELWP, Agriculture Victoria and the Mallee CMA, was developed to model yield impacts on irrigated horticulture crops (citrus, grapes and almonds) under current and future (2030, 2050 and 2070) climate scenarios and […]