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with Salinity in Wheatbelt Valleys Conference Dealing Prospects and Practical Options Processes, • Resources needed to support early innovators/adopters • Valuing creativeness and openness to ideas • Appeal to self-interest (“Enlightened Self-interest”) • Working in partnerships is effective – including for new enterprises • Winners will be those who embrace change • Community cooperation/teamwork is essential • Need to understand roles at differing scales • Need to be visible and emotionally engaging • Need coordinating body/process to manage change and implement the Vision (like with the Murray Darling Basin Commission) • Need to think of large change – encourage the outrageous, allow passion to be expressed!! • Need for an accessible venue that encourages discussion of new ideas • Technology is not necessarily limiting the required change • Communicate current ideas and information widely • Need to engage in two-way discussions (including government) • Recognise that some do not have the capacity (financial or other) to change • Willingness to recognise, accept and learn from mistakes • Need role models for change (eg the Liebe Group) • Recognise that regulation may have to be a part of change to achieve the Shared Vision • Change processes are evolutionary. Vision Statement Vibrant, well informed communities making cost-effective socially acceptable decisions leading to innovative land management changes based on creative critical thinking, with a committed will to voluntarily embrace changes that are consistent with delivering the financial and social landscape outcomes that enhance the collective interests of all stakeholders.
with Salinity in Wheatbelt Valleys Conference Dealing Prospects and Practical Options Processes, NEXT STEPS TOWARDS ACHIEVING THE ‘SHARED VISION’ Summary Comments From The Workshop ADVANCING THE VISION • Communicate the ‘Shared Vision’ as an outcome of the conference to the State Salinity Council, the Salinity Taskforce, Regional NRM groups, all levels of government and community. It should be promoted as belonging to the entire community. • Arrange a ‘Drafting Group’ to refine the Vision and prepare a strategy for it’s implementation • Seek broad political support for the ‘Shared Vision’ to ensure that it endures beyond the period of the current government • Engage broad community support for the ‘Shared Vision’, especially with those in rural communities who were not at the conference. • Seek commitment to implement the ‘Shared Vision’ through funding and strategic action • A response to the 5 Key Conference Questions is required. • Some considered that a single authority with legislative support for salinity management be established (the ‘Salinity Action Commission’ was suggested, modelled on the Murray Darling Basin Commission) to implement actions to advance the ‘Shared Vision’. However, most were in favour of the existing State Salinity Council, regional NRM groups (such as the Avon Working Group), perhaps the Salinity taskforce and the new Drainage Working Group to be leaders in advancing the vision. • Suggested key tasks for ‘lead body to advance the ‘Shared Vision’ includes communicating the Vision, setting policy directions, identifying critical R&D pathways, streamlining project implementation, initiating education and training programs and managing media. • Provide capacity for local communities to prepare ‘Local Community Visions’ that align with this ‘Shared Vision’ • Need to develop a ‘Salinity Operation Plan’ to achieve the Vision, with a focus on Biodiversity, Hydrology and Valley Floors • Need ‘Demonstration Catchments’ based on strategies from the ‘Shared Vision’. Integrated practices to be developed and demonstrated (especially PURSL and OPUS initiatives). • Need to get the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality aligned with the ‘Shared Vision’. Partnership Arrangements according to this alignment to be developed. • All groups need to be ‘less exclusive’ • Protocol for agency/community coordination and communication required • Identify those who attended the conference as the “Wheatbelt 2021 Group” and foster communications within the group (participant contacts to be circulated; website discussion could be encouraged)
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Foreword Dealing with Salinity in W
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argue that they were really abnorma
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REFERENCES Agstats (1997). Agricult
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INTRODUCTION The Lake Chinocup Catc
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agriculture) in various stages, the
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REFERENCES Dawes, W.R., Stauffacher
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