3.1: Socio-economic activity and water use in the Tropical Rivers region

Natalie Stoeckl — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:50:41 +0000

Project Number:

3.01

Proj Number:

301

Leader:

Natalie Stoeckl

Abstract

An understanding of the socio-economic systems and their relationships with the environment is a key component in assessing the implications of future developments in northern Australia. This project will study a range of economic, cultural, institutional and human-capital aspects of northern populations to look for differences and similarities among communities and to describe how the region's socio-economic systems might change under the different future development scenarios.

Outcomes

The project will benefit natural resource managers, policy makers, local and state governments, community groups enhancing their knowledge about:

the current status, and growth rate of the region's socio-economic systems,
some of their 'interactions' with the environment and
the likely impacts on the socio-economic systems and, by extension, environmental systems of alternative development paths.

In addition, it will:

People and the Economy

TRaCK Project 301 Updates

3.1: Socio-economic activity and water use in the Tropical Rivers region

Outcomes