Approaches to environmental management at the Australian local government level: Initiatives and limitations

Abstract

Local government in Australia has only recently become concerned with environmental management in an integrated and holistic way. Even so, only a small number of municipalities have started to take the issue seriously and most of these have been in urban rather than rural areas. The state of Victoria, in particular, has been considered progressive on an international level in the way it has fostered concern for managing the environment with its Local Conservation Strategy Programme. However, the approaches in terms of determining the environmental issues and of developing and implementing these strategies have been varied. Depending on the municipality in question, strategies have been developed by consultants, by an Environment (or Conservation) Officer employed by the local council, or by municipal officers already working within a local government department. The different approaches have also varied in the extent to which the local community was involved in the process. This paper examines the process of Local Conservation Strategy development and examines the limitations of such activity at the local government level in the state of Victoria, Australia.

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