University of Queensland
Jenny Moffatt
Aims | Projected outcomes |
The first and most important aim of the study is to understand
the perspective of graziers in rural and remote Queensland
regarding social, economic and ecological dimensions of sustainable
development. This would be an in-depth understanding and include
how these dimensions interact at property and broader scales.
The second aim is to understand the constraints and enabling
factors associated with institutional arrangements of relevance to
sustainable development for these graziers, from both graziers and
those who influence their perspective, such as government
officials. Specific policies, practices and organisations will be
examined in the social, economic and ecological areas, based on
information from the literature, exploratory research and the
graziers.
The third aim is to provide an analysis giving direction for
changed institutional arrangements towards a more sustainable
future. A systems framework and eclectic theoretical approach will
be used to examine the perspective of graziers, the institutional
arrangements that impact and the interactions between dimensions of
sustainable development and scales, to produce an analysis giving
direction for changed institutional arrangements towards a more
sustainable future.
- a developing understanding of the social, economic and
ecological dimensions of sustainable development that operate at
property and broader scales and the interactions between them from
the graziers’ perspective;
- the constraints and opportunities involved in sustainable
development from graziers’ and others’ perspectives in
the Tropical Savannas;
- what this information means for policy in the tropical
savannas.
