Back in 2014 Natural Decisions worked with Spatial Vision Innovations on a project called NRM Planning for Climate Change. The project was led by the Corangamite Catchment Management Authority on behalf of seven Victorian CMAs. One of the key outputs of the project was a suite of mapping products showing modelled data and information on […]
Posted 12 December 2017 in News
Back in May 2013, when we started Natural Decisions, one of our key aims was to assist organisations to develop strong business cases for environmental investment. As the ‘landscape’ for environmental investment becomes increasingly competitive it is becoming more important for organisations to develop proposals that are designed to deliver cost-effective outcomes. One of our […]
Posted 27 October 2017 in News
It’s been a very busy few months for Natural Decisions … so much so that our blog has been somewhat neglected! We are currently working on a diverse range of projects – all with a common thread … improving environmental decision making through structured and quantitative approaches. Here is a sample of current or recently […]
Posted 1 June 2017 in News
In 2015, Natural Decisions in collaboration with Advanced Choice Economics, were commissioned by the National Landcare Advisory Committee (NLAC) and Department of the Environment to examine, and quantify the economic benefits of National Landcare Programme activities. This work represents the first rigorous attempt to assess the economic benefits of investment into Landcare and the National Landcare […]
Posted 20 February 2017 in News
The Natural Decisions team has been active in recent weeks at a number of conferences and workshops. Geoff Park recently presented at the National Private Land Conference organised by the Australian Land Conservation Alliance, held in Melbourne on 24/25 November. His talk, “Some thoughts on native vegetation and policy responses”, can be viewed here. Here is an […]
Posted 12 December 2016 in News
Natural Decisions in partnership with Craig Beverly, Graeme Doole and Fred Bennett have published a landmark publication describing a method to estimate the feasibility and net profit (or net costs) of achieving set water quality targets (sediment, nitrogen, phosphorus and herbicide load reductions) in the Burnett-Mary region within the southern portion of the Great Barrier Reef. […]
Posted 26 September 2016 in News
Natural Decisions were part of the large team who have put together the cost estimates of the amount of money it might take to achieve the targets set for trying to protect the Great Barrier Reef in terms of addressing the impacts from agriculture (sugarcane and grazing). We are pleased the Queensland Government commissioned this […]
Posted 12 August 2016 in News
In recent months the team from Natural Decisions, in partnership with Patten Bridge (Bridge Logic) and Professor Allan Curtis (Charles Sturt University), have been working with the North East Catchment Management Authority (NECMA) to develop an approach to landscape monitoring that captures the social and behavioural aspects of landscape change. The landscape condition monitoring framework […]
Posted 11 July 2016 in News
The team at Natural Decisions is sad to advise that Michelle Dickson will be leaving us to take up a position with Melbourne Water. Michelle’s passion and abilities in all aspects of waterway management and project management, as well as her contribution of ideas and hard work in all areas will be sorely missed. Michelle […]
Posted 6 July 2016 in News
Recently Anna Roberts spent a week in the Burnett Mary region evaluating a three year Australian Government funded program to protect the Great Barrier Reef in terms of its impact, effectiveness, efficiency and appropriateness. The program is focused on improving partnerships with local industries (sugarcane, grazing, dairy and horticulture) and providing incentives for landholders to […]
Posted 25 May 2016 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 […]