South Coast NRM Investment Framework
Strategic regional investment has replaced the project based approach to natural resource management.
This means that proactive planning now takes place at a regional scale, using the skills and experience of people with local knowledge, who are committed to a sustainable future and therefore best placed to do it.
Two of the main requirements for the development of regional NRM strategies include the effective integration across a range of land and water uses, management responsibilities and stakeholder interests; AND getting the most effective return on the investment of time and resources by those stakeholders.
The Strategy strengthens the Region’s ability to achieve an integration of purpose and effort, and to work effectively to protect our natural resources. The Strategy provides:
- The vision for NRM and directly related social and economic mattersTThe values and condition of, and threats to the Region’s natural resources
- The specific goals and targets that, will provide the steps towards achieving the vision
- A range of actions required to achieve the targets and an indication of their relative priorities
- A framework for implementing the actions, with an emphasis on partnerships between stakeholders
- The basis for an investment plan that will assign costs to the priority actions for the region.
It provides the forward thinking and the framework, for NRM for the Region and is being used to guide investment in, and delivery of, prioritised on ground actions, for the sustainable management of our Region’s natural resources.
With a clear vision of the long-term future to help direct efforts, the following objectives have been set to focus actions:
- Community: The South Coast has a strong community with the capacity to plan and to manage natural resources for the maintenance of a wide range of employment, educational, recreational and lifestyle opportunities.
- Conservation: The Region’s biodiversity is conserved and the natural landscapes and marine values are maintained.
- Sustainable use: The Region’s economy is diverse and robust, and is based on managing all natural resource-dependent industries and activities in an ecologically, socially and economically sustainable manner.