Achieving ‘a social licence to operate’ is important for organisations with long time horizons, high exposure global markets and a wide range of interested stakeholders. Community engagement critical achieve operate, but its capacity influence not well understood. Using case studies from forestry in New Brunswick, Canada Tasmania, Australia, this article considers what is, how community plays role achieving an alternative conceptualisation may improve the operate. Social often conceived as...

Tree planting for carbon sequestration is a commonly proposed climate change mitigation strategy, with afforestation projects forming part of voluntary and mandatory offset trading schemes. Afforestation often promoted as new economic opportunity private landholders. While multiple studies have identified physical opportunities afforestation, few examined the willingness landholders to adopt factors that influence this willingness. We examine using data from survey Australian The varies...

It is increasingly argued that indicators of sustainable agriculture should include measures examining the health and wellbeing farm managers. Given farmer plays a crucial role in farm-based decision making management, good may indicate level functioning across all components system - defining aspect sustainability. Despite this, few agricultural sustainability indicator frameworks measure wellbeing. A key challenge lack exploration linkages between farming systems wellbeing, identification...

This study investigated socio-economic impacts of land use change, giving explicit attention to the relationships between independently observed change and associated changes, perceived attributed cause experienced change. Using a case region in south-east Australia, we examined growth for dairy farming, cropping, blue gum plantations rural residential development on (i) population trends, (ii) amount nature employment available region. Perceptions were assessed using multiple qualitative...

The growing movement of 'regenerative agriculture' (RA) claims to provide a way adapt changing climate by regenerating landscapes while meeting the social and economic needs farmers their communities. Current research suggests that through application socio-ecological (SES) principles, RA can build farmer's sense ability successfully manage land for range outcomes changes, also known as farming self-efficacy. Further, it is argued increasing self-efficacy, experience improved wellbeing. Up...

Australia is the most fire-prone of all continents, with large areas country affected by bushfires each year. Bushfires can have profound impacts on communities and environment. Traditionally, prescribed burns been used as a fuel reduction treatment. However, proportion land that subjected to in has decreased since 1990. This partly due increasingly smaller windows opportunity available conduct safely, concerns about operational costs, health from smoke, social acceptability burning. These...

Choosing effective policy instruments to achieve conservation goals has many challenges. We explore the challenge of instrument choice in context landscape-scale on private land, where is select that are able influence management practices large numbers landholders with diverse values, beliefs and priorities. report a landholder survey workshop undertaken as part study focused reversing scattered tree decline grazing land Australia. examined eight against stated selection criteria four...

Farmers have particular wellbeing-related vulnerabilities that conventional health interventions struggle to address. We consider the potential of natural resource management (NRM) programs, which reach large numbers farmers, as non-conventional place-focused wellbeing interventions. Although designed address environmental degradation, NRM can influence farmers. used qualitative meta-synthesis reanalyse studies examining social dimensions in Australia and generate a theoretical framework...

Increased use of electric vehicles (EVs) has the potential to reduce carbon emissions. Therefore, predicting impact governments' EV incentive policies on future uptake EVs is important. This study estimates introduced in Australian Capital Territory. estimation conducted through constructing a microsimulation model and using it assess purchase for households different income quintiles. In model, decision about purchasing an based largely total cost ownership compared vehicle already owned...

Summary Tree plantations are often hailed as providing a wide range of economic, social and environmental benefits to rural regions. Yet in many the regions where have been established, members communities groups expressed various concerns about effects large-scale tree plantings. If bringing so these regions, why is there concern sometimes active dispute over their establishment? This paper examines nature disputes by reviewing some literature on implications plantations, drawing four case...

Summary Social concerns surrounding commercial plantation forest management practices in Australia have resulted calls for more participatory forms of decision-making. Public participation (or community engagement, CE) processes provide opportunities affected and interested members to voice their over proposed activities, share relevant information influence decision-making processes. A large body literature provides ample support the adoption resource management. The literature, however,...

Community engagement (CE) processes are an essential component of modern forest management practices. Required under law and in line with business paradigms, CE need to produce positive social as well operational outcomes, a balance that is often complicated idealistic. This paper identifies pathways successful within plantation forestry management. Using narratives explore the multiple experiences those involved processes, highlights perspectives both practitioners other stakeholders....

A healthy, productive and resilient workforce is important to any industry, supporting the wellbeing of workers a key factor in achieving this. Worldwide, forest industry amongst most physically dangerous industries work in. Workplace health safety strategies have traditionally focused on improving physical forestry workplaces. It equally consider broader workers, not only ensure their quality life, but also support healthy sustainable with low turnover. To do this, it critical understand...

To describe the relationship between self-reported farm profitability and farmer well-being, to explore potential implications for assistance policy.Cross-sectional analysis of farmers from Regional Wellbeing Survey data (wave 1, 2013) comparison groups.Participants were 1172 dryland (35% women) 707 irrigators (24% women).The Personal Index Kessler 10-item measure general psychological distress.There is a consistent significant higher profitability, greater well-being less distress among...