Queensland’s Regional NRM Plans

Each of Queensland’s 12 natural resource management organisations has a Regional NRM Plan which is reviewed every five years.

These Regional NRM Plans are developed in partnership with the people who live in these communities and who rely on the region’s natural assets for their lifestyle and livelihoods.

While each regional NRM group is different, their NRM plans have common characteristics:

They identify strategic priorities through a robust planning process based on scientific, cultural and community understanding of the landscape

They align with policy and legislation both at state and national levels, and integrated with land use planning and statutory approvals.

Participatory planning processes are used to ensure plans reflect the issues and priorities of stakeholders and the broader community. Public participation is embedded at all stages of the priority-setting phase.

Plans are knowledge based, using the best available environment, social, cultural and economic data as well as community knowledge at multiple scales. This includes Traditional Knowledge, scientific data and models to inform understanding of the socio-ecological system, environmental images, targets, measures, priority areas and knowledge needs.

NRM plans are landscape-scale, working across tenures, land and marine uses so they can address the complex and connected nature of our social-environmental systems.

Complex systems-thinking approaches are applied – acknowledging the system as a whole rather than in individual parts.

Transparency and accountability are built into regional NRM plans. Implementation roles are clearly specified and this is a condition of a plan’s endorsement.

Regional NRM plans are adaptive, with rigorous monitoring, evaluation, reporting and improvement (MERI) processes embedded.

Partnership delivery model is front and centre with plans delivered through a partnership approach.