Threat and stress in the Clarence River estuary of Northern New South Wales

Burgess, J. S.; Woolmington, Eric

doi:10.1007/bf01418730

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“…The emergence of the CFP in 1997 occurred as a response to unintended detrimental impacts on floodplain water quality from the construction of flood mitigation drains and floodgates throughout the lower Clarence River floodplain to protect agricultural productivity worth millions of dollars from major flood events (Burgess & Woolmington, 1981;CVC, 2009CVC, , 2018Ham & Dinham, 2000;Wilson et al, 2010) (Figure 1). The Clarence River County Council (CRCC), established by…”

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Place‐based collaborative governance: The potential influence of governments

Greenway

2021

Geographical Research

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Governments seeking to implement state/territory-wide or national agendas and policies can impose (un)intended impacts and consequences on self-managed community-led collaborative governance initiatives by which people attempt to solve place-based environmental and resource problems. The impacts of government actions and changes to policy, funding targets and criteria, and local government reform on emergent place-based and selfmanaged community collaborative governance initiatives can be significant in relation to longevity and ongoing achievement of beneficial environmental outcomes. Such outcomes are irrespective of whether place-based initiatives are considered to emerge in the shadow of government or independent of central government. This article establishes that place-based self-managed community-led collaborative governance initiatives are not immune to the influences and consequences of state/territorial and/or federal government decisions and actions, be those through the development of environmental regulations and policies that direct actions and/or set targets for policy outcomes; the provision of funding to be administered according to set criteria; or, at state/territory government levels, forced local government amalgamations.Discussion about these issues is positioned in relation to a successful placebased community-led collaborative water governance initiative known as the Clarence Floodplain Project (CFP) in northern New South Wales, Australia.The experience of the CFP suggests that state/territory and/or federal government decisions and actions may result in (un)intended negative as well as positive impacts on place-based community-led collaborative governance initiatives. Although the CFP was impacted by government actions, its success also highlights the importance of place-based approaches to natural resource management and governance.

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Section: Background: Emergence Of the Clarence Floodplain Projectmentioning

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Place‐based collaborative governance: The potential influence of governments

Greenway

2021

Geographical Research

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“…The 'small is beautiful' syndrome may indeed be seen as an antithesis in the dialectic (Woolmington, 1981) of intellectual progression. It also reflects the considered need to put some humanity (in the sense of personal meaningfulness in life) back into the totality of human affairs.…”

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“…Within an array of sub-cultures, both urban and rural. in for example Australia, the need for human contact in the face of 'the system' is producing interaction at the informal level among small collectivities of people (Woolmington, 1982;Burgess and Woolmington 1981). Such emerging folk cultures at the moment take the form of an 'underground' trend that clearly meets some pressing need.…”

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Small may be inevitable*

Woolmington

1985

Australian Geographical Studies

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Today's global culture system is experiencing a phase of accelerating change. This change is powered by technological innovation which produces social and economic turbulences in the system as unforeseen side‐effects of the changes wrought by technology. This turbulence takes many forms: the economic system must grow to avoid collapse; institutions grow bigger and more unwieldy; individuals become increasingly alienated. Therein lie the seeds of the system's disintegration, leading to the likely emergence of a subsequent culture system (or systems) of smaller dimensions, signs of which are already manifest.

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My father put them up there: Anthropogenic environmental change associated with abandoned river vessels in the Clarence River, NSW, Australia

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Thoms

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The Clarence River (New South Wales, Australia) was the main transport corridor for the timber and sugar cane industries operating in the catchment from the 1860s to the 1970s. Using archaeological, documentary, and oral historical resources we explore some of the anthropogenic impacts of these industries upon the fluvial geomorphology of the lower Clarence River. In particular, the deliberate abandonment of obsolete vessels on the river system is a focus. These discarded former cane and timber barges have been used as erosion control devices in several areas around the Harwood Island sugar mill, resulting in the accumulation of sediments and the establishment of mangrove environments in what were degraded areas.

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Threat and stress in the Clarence River estuary of Northern New South Wales

Cited by 6 publications

References 4 publications

Place‐based collaborative governance: The potential influence of governments

Place‐based collaborative governance: The potential influence of governments

Small may be inevitable*

My father put them up there: Anthropogenic environmental change associated with abandoned river vessels in the Clarence River, NSW, Australia

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