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About Allan Curtis
Allan has an international reputation for research examining watershed organisations, the policy and institutional arrangements supporting catchment management, understanding rural landholder adoption, and in the evaluation of natural resource management programs.
Allan's research draws on theory across the fields of program evaluation, community engagement,
governance, volunteer management, extension and rural development. Recent/current experience has included research exploring the social constraints to implementing adaptive management; the principles and practice of good governance for regional NRM; learning through triple bottom line reporting in the irrigation sector; public perceptions of risk in relation to
quarantine aquaculture, and climate change; assessing the outcomes of investments through regional NRM; and understanding landholder adoption of conservation practices for riparian management, remnant vegetation and soil health.
Allan is currently leading social research teams within the CERF Landscape Logic hub and the Future Farm Industries CRC.
View presentation: Rural Property Turnover: Trends and Implications for NRM
Abstract
Modelling of data from regional surveys of rural landholders in south eastern Australia suggests that about half of all rural properties will change ownership in the next decade. Most new owners will have lived outside the district and substantial and increasing proportions are likely to be absentees and non-farmers by occupation. Newer and longer-term owners are very different and these differences shape their land management. Drawing on data from recent the Corangamite and Wimmera regions, I will examine the implications of these trends for the adoption of conservation and sustainable agriculture practices and landholder engagement in NRM.
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