Opportunities for adaptive online collaboration to enhance rural land management

Baumber, A; Metternicht, G; Ampt, P; Cross, R; Berry, E

Opportunities for adaptive online collaboration to enhance rural land management

Baumber, A

Metternicht, G Ampt, P Cross, R Berry, E

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Journal of Environmental Management, 2018, 219 pp. 28 - 36
Issue Date:: 2018-08-01

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dc.contributor.author	Baumber, A https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8560-8661	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Metternicht, G	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Ampt, P	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Cross, R	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Berry, E	en_US
dc.date.available	2020-08-02T19:04:58Z
dc.date.issued	2018-08-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Environmental Management, 2018, 219 pp. 28 - 36	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0301-4797	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/124205
dc.description.abstract	© 2018 Cross-property cooperation has the potential to enhance the effectiveness of environmental management actions that cut across property boundaries. Online tools can facilitate this and overcome barriers to landholder engagement in collaborative management. However, collaborative online tools need to be designed and tailored to users’ needs and values, and landholder participation in the development process is critical to ensuring uptake and long-term use. This article presents a case study from the Central Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia, where landholders have been involved in participatory development of a new online collaboration tool. The case study results highlight the significance of issues such as internet access, privacy, technical proficiency and differing stakeholder objectives. A landholder survey identified mapping and the uploading of monitoring data as important functions for the online tool, but these were not rated as highly as functions relating to data security, sharing settings and key term searches. Consequently, we recommend that a future online collaboration tool for the region is not framed specifically as a mapping or citizen science tool, but rather as an adaptive collaboration and communication tool that can incorporate a variety of data types and formats and be modified over time in line with changing landholder needs.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of Environmental Management	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.04.114	en_US
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject.classification	Environmental Sciences	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Humans	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Conservation of Natural Resources	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Internet	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Rural Population	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	New South Wales	en_US
dc.title	Opportunities for adaptive online collaboration to enhance rural land management	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	219	en_US
utslib.for	0502 Environmental Science and Management	en_US
utslib.for	0701 Agriculture, Land and Farm Management	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation
utslib.copyright.status	open_access	*
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	219	en_US

Abstract:

© 2018 Cross-property cooperation has the potential to enhance the effectiveness of environmental management actions that cut across property boundaries. Online tools can facilitate this and overcome barriers to landholder engagement in collaborative management. However, collaborative online tools need to be designed and tailored to users’ needs and values, and landholder participation in the development process is critical to ensuring uptake and long-term use. This article presents a case study from the Central Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia, where landholders have been involved in participatory development of a new online collaboration tool. The case study results highlight the significance of issues such as internet access, privacy, technical proficiency and differing stakeholder objectives. A landholder survey identified mapping and the uploading of monitoring data as important functions for the online tool, but these were not rated as highly as functions relating to data security, sharing settings and key term searches. Consequently, we recommend that a future online collaboration tool for the region is not framed specifically as a mapping or citizen science tool, but rather as an adaptive collaboration and communication tool that can incorporate a variety of data types and formats and be modified over time in line with changing landholder needs.

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