This research project has been commissioned by Land and Water Australia,and focuses on lessons drawing for Australia from selected international examples of institutional change for sustainable development in the past decade. An interim product of the project is now available as a CRES Working Paper, setting out the conceptual basis of the research and the proposed case studies

Connor, RD

Dovers, Stephen

The Australian National University

Institutional change and learning for sustainable development

This paper is an interim outcome of Land and Water Australia Project ANU-24 'Implications for Australian natural resource management of international experiences in institutional
change and reform arising from sustainable development'  being undertaken through the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, The Australian National University.
In summary, the aim of the project is to explore operational institutional lessons of relevance to Australia, gleaned from institutional change in other countries driven by the post-WCED (1987) and UNCED (1992) policy agenda of sustainable development. The primary output of the project
is a brief (~20 page) report with a target audience of the NRM policy community, stakeholders and
NGOs, supplemented by explanatory material, background papers, case studies, data bases, etc. as
required. Clearly a review of institutional change around the world over the period 1987-2001
represents a mammoth task, and thus this study must scan widely and then scope more narrowly

Connor, R. D

Dovers, S. R

English