Despite having difficulties or challenges adjusting to a new
academic culture and environment, as a newly arrived international student I
also needed to find out a number of social, political and economical situations,
structures, cultures and histories of Australia in order to understand what
community I will be living and studying in over the next two years. What
“Community” and “Community Natural Resource Management” means in Australian
context? But reading chapter 4 of ‘Collaborative Forest Management: Review’ (Petheram,
J. et al, 2002) and lectures
presented this week gave me an overview of Participatory Management of Natural
Resources in Australia and approaches and techniques in CNRM.
The reason I selected the reading for this week is that I
believe Australia as a developed and multicultural society, with an
enormous amount of natural resources, (including coal) has much either success
or failure stories in CNRM and can be learned by studying CNRM subject. Of
course, a broad range of techniques, approaches, tools, principles and
practices have been implemented or taken in both in developing and developed
countries around the world was expected to be learned in this subject.
