Project 3.7.5 - Socio-economic constraints to and incentives for the adoption of land use and management options for water quality

Project Leader:  Dr Martijn VanGrieken, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems 

Project 3.7.5 will evaluate the socio-economic constraints to and risks associated with the adoption of land use and management options for water quality improvement at the private and social level, to identify and assess instruments that are most cost-effective in promoting the adoption of these ‘best’ land use and management options by community embedded agents in rural and urban areas in North Queensland’s catchments.
Key objectives include:

• An assessment of the cost-effectiveness of land use and management options for water quality improvement, including agricultural as well as non-agricultural diffuse and point sources;

• Identifying agent profiles, aspirations and attitudes, characterising (private) agent specific constraints to and risks associated with the adoption of land use and management options for water quality improvement;

• Identifying community (including institutional) structures and networks, characterising (social) community specific constraints to and risks associated with the adoption of land use and management options for water quality improvement; and

• Identifying and assessing instruments that are most effective in promoting the adoption of ‘best’ land use and management options by community embedded agents.