BUSHCARE, ENV POLICY: "New management for Brisbane’s natural assets"

ScienceAlert
4 September 2008

...As part of its bid to preserve Brisbane’s natural capital and quality of life, Brisbane City Council asked CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems to assess the feasibility of using asset-based management processes, usually used for urban infrastructure, to help develop a management process for the city’s natural assets.

‘Environmental asset management is being adopted by various other Australian local governments, mainly due to the rapid growth of urban areas being seen across the nation, and with that, the increasing importance of “green” or natural spaces to citizens,’ says Dr Leonie Pearson, an environmental economist with CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems.

‘To date, however, management of natural assets via environmental asset management planning (EAMP) has been done in a piecemeal, ad hoc fashion, highly dependent on the context of application and the perceived need of the management process.’...

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