NERP TE Project 12.4 - Governance, planning and the effective application of emerging ecos

Project 12.4 of the NERP TE program focused on governance systems for climate adaptation in the Wet Tropics from 2011 to 2013. The project, associated with James Cook University, produced practical manuals for Natural Resource Management bodies and defined partnership arrangements for institutional reform. Outputs include PNG and HTML files hosted by the Australian Ocean Data Network on data.gov.au.

Use Cases

• Designing regional climate adaptation policies based on the project's governance system analysis.
• Guiding carbon market integration for NRM bodies using the developed practical manuals.
• Informing institutional reforms for ecosystem service markets based on the defined partnership arrangements.
• Applying governance theories to align market activities with NRM plan objectives as discussed in the project publication.

Strengths

• Project outputs include detailed practical manuals delivered across Queensland regional NRM bodies.
• Defined partnership arrangements for governance system refinement are a stated outcome.
• A theory-based publication on governance systems for ecosystem service markets was developed.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data freshness should be verified despite a last updated date of 2026-07-10.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network via data_gov_au

Collection Method

Project involved working with stakeholders to identify effective governance systems.

Time Range

2011-2013

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-10 18:39:10.366692; freshness should be verified

Geography

Far North Queensland, specifically the Wet Tropics region