Knowledge and adoption

Contents

• Theme: Knowledge and adoption
• The NRM knowledge system in Australia
• Getting science into practice and practice into science
• Knowledge for regional NRM - connecting researchers and regions
• The Mosaic Map project
• People, Practice and Policy
• Western Australian irrigation research project sparks water savings
• Exchanging dry feet for wet feet at 'Veg Futures'
• Land, Water & Wool: using new extension techniques to achieve change in NRM
• Rapt in rivers
• Taking researchers into the regions
• Achieving successful partnerships between business, the community and government
• Lessons from Watershed Torbay - values, integrating knowledge and managing change
• It's a Wrap

Knowledge and adoption

From the Editor

The last six months have been a bit of a whirlwind as I, and some of the researchers who have worked on our Program, have travelled around the country running National Riparian Lands R&D Program workshops with catchment management, state and territory department, research institution and non-government representatives. What has struck me most about this experience has been the fantastic group of people working in river and riparian management across Australia. The welcome we were given everywhere we went was genuine, and people seemed to really enjoy meeting and talking with the research team. For the researchers, it was also a terrific experience, as they could see the results of their research being communicated directly to those people most likely to implement findings in their day to day work. It was also a lot of fun, so thank you to all those who were involved.

The workshops are one method of knowledge and adoption, and inspired me to do an edition of RipRap on this topic. When I asked people for contributions the pages rapidly filled up, so here again is a bumper edition. I hope you enjoy looking through the many different knowledge and adoption techniques discussed in the articles. All of us working in river and riparian management are involved in sharing our knowledge and learning from each other, I hope this edition of RipRap provides you with ideas, support and encouragement and we welcome your feedback on how we can continue to make RipRap meet your needs.

To reduce download times Riprap 30 has been split into two sections for your convenience:

• Download Adobe Acrobat version of Part 1 of Knowledge and adoption (riprap30_1.pdf 1.2Mb)
• Download Adobe Acrobat version of Part 2 of Knowledge and adoption (riprap30_2.pdf 1.0Mb)
• Download full Adobe Acrobat version of Knowledge and Adoption (on LWA Site)

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