Includes bibliographical references and index.

cover; Contents; List of contributors; 1 Introduction: contested country regional naturalresource management in Australia; Part 1 Policy, promises and practices ofregional resource managementand governance; 2 From government to governance: explaining andassessing new approaches to NRM; 3 Invest, divest or empower: interpretations andpractices of regionalisation in Australia's savannas; 4 Can community-based NRM work at the scale of largeregions? Exploring the roles of nesting and subsidiarity.

5 Will Regionalisation achieve integrated Natural ResourceManagement? Insights from recent South Australianexperience6 Interrogating devolved natural resource management:challenges for good governance; 7 Accounting for performance: public environmentalgovernance in the shadow of the future; Part 2 Community engagement, localparticipation and regional capacity; 8 Seeing Engagement Practitioners as DeliberativeHinges to improve Landholder Engagement; 9 Community engagement in natural resourcemanagement: ex.

Leading researchers critically review Australia's environmental management over the past decade.