Book Review
Our Country: managing and protecting natural resources
Katherine Faull, Katherine Sharrad, Christopher B Daniels et al. Axiom Australia, 2021.
Like the land we live on, and the people who share it, NRM is continually changing, adapting, and learning. We learn from the mistakes of the past but understand the importance of traditional and experiential knowledge from those who have occupied the land for generations. We know science continually discovers new information and then new ways to do things. Perhaps most importantly we understand that the situation for environments continually changes and what worked yesterday might not work tomorrow.
It is therefore important to never consider the environment as a list of problems to be solved. Rather, it delivers issues to be understood, wrestled with, and responded to.
Our responses will in turn change the issues and require new or different responses in the future. This adaptive management will be the cornerstone of the Landscape Boards. Science provides the knowledge and the tools, and communities, organisations and individuals who connect with the land.
Landscape management has never been so important, so needed and so vital for the well-being of nature and of us as well.