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Internal Report 532
Walden D & Nou S (eds) 2008
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
The presentations given at the symposium are available as PDF files
The concept of the Kakadu National Park Landscape Change Symposium was conceived at a meeting in early 2006 between Steve Winderlich, the newly appointed Manager of the Natural and Cultural Programs Section of Kakadu National Park (KNP), Dr Peter Bayliss of eriss, and Aaron Petty and Caroline Lehmann – both PhD students at CDU. The aim of the meeting was to look for ways to apply some of the recent research that had focused on landscape change in KNP and identify future research directions. The consensus was that the best way to do this would be to convene a symposium and the Landscape Change Symposium was born.
The aim of the Landscape Change Symposium was to have an effective two-way transfer of knowledge between Kakadu National Park staff, researchers, the Kakadu Research Advisory Committee (KRAC) members, stakeholders and Traditional Owners on issues pertinent to:
The objective was to place this knowledge in a management context and pose questions to Park Managers and Traditional Owners regarding future management frameworks and research directions. It was anticipated that the findings of this forum would feed into a series of more focused symposiums and workshops. The topics of these forums were to be Weed, Fire, and Feral Animal Management, Climate Change and a final Ecological Risk and Adaptive Management symposium which would essentially be the summary and synthesis forum for the preceding symposiums and workshops.
The symposium was held at the Aurora Kakadu (South Alligator). It was originally scheduled for 6 and 7 March 2007 but just to emphasise the need to focus on agents of change an extreme flooding event meant that the symposium had to be rescheduled to 17 and 18 April 2007. Over one hundred participants from a wide range of stakeholders including government agencies, academic institutions, landholders, Traditional Owners and Indigenous Associations confirmed their attendance. These included Parks Australia, eriss, CSIRO, CDU, Northern Territory Government, NLC, Kakadu Board of Management, Kakadu Research Advisory Committee, Gundjeihmi Association, Werenbun Association, WWF, Energy Resources of Australia Ltd and EWLS.
Topics presented at the symposium included:
Presenters were provided with a number of focus questions and issues including:
Workshops were requested to address the following focus questions and issues:
Structure of this report
The report structure follows the order of proceedings of the workshop. The workshop comprised a series of powerpoint presentations, with questions and discussion during and after each presentation. Each presenter(s)/author(s) provided a written focus summary and a short paper addressing the issues outlined above. These summaries and papers are presented here in the same sequence as at the workshop and contain material additional to that of the powerpoint presentations. Some authors provided references (further reading) in addition to those included in their papers and these have been included in the bibliography after the paper where applicable.
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