DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES
Place and Purpose
Spatial models for natural resource management and planning
May 30th and 31st 2007 at The Capital, Bendigo Victoria
Place and Purpose was a great success, with over 200 delegates attending 2 days of presentations, workshops, demonstrations and exhibits to present spatial tools and approaches for analysing natural, agricultural and urban landscapes to assist in decision-making.
Some feedback from the event suggests that Place & Purpose should become a biannual event, with the next Place & Purpose in 2009.
"Splendid display of tools and capabilities; excellent program with very clear theme"
"Presentation of many tools that are useful to NRM and landscape management"
"I would definitely attend this type of conference if it happened again in a couple of years"
"There is clearly interest in this broad science theme (landscape scale modelling for NRM) precious few other conferences in
Australia which service this need....you should think about running it every two years"
"Presentation of many tools that are useful to NRM and landscape management"
"I would definitely attend this type of conference if it happened again in a couple of years"
"There is clearly interest in this broad science theme (landscape scale modelling for NRM) precious few other conferences in
Australia which service this need....you should think about running it every two years"
A DVD of the presentations will be available shortly and will be mailed to all conference delegates along with a detailed list of delegate contact details.
For a copy of the Proceedings CD provided to all delegates at registration, or for a copy the DVD of presentations, contact Gemma Heemskerk on 03 8341 2422.
The links to the short abstracts and biographies of the presenters are still active, see below.
Place & Purpose Book
A special edition book to be published by Springer is also underway. Presenters at Place & Purpose will be shortly invited to prepare a full length paper. Date of publication is likely to be 2008 with a working title 'Landscape Analysis and Visualisation'. The book is part of the Springer series 'Lecture notes in Geoinformation and Cartography', designed to publish post-proceedings of thoroughly peer-reviewed final conference papers. For further information contact Dr. Chris Pettit on 03 8341 2407.
Sponsorship
The Organising Committee would like to thank the following sponsors for their generous support of the 2007 Place and Purpose Conference.
| Platinum Sponsor: | The Department of Primary Industries Victoria |
| Gold Sponsors: | Land and Water Australia (external link) The Department of Sustainability and Environment (external link) |
| Silver Sponsor: | Land Technologies Alliance |
| Bronze Sponsors: | EWR (external link) Victorian Catchment Management Council (external link) ESRI Australia (external link) Spatial Vision (external link) |
Conference Abstracts
Day 1 Wednesday 30th | Day 2 Thursday 31st | Landscape Visualisation - Day 2 Thursday 31st
Tuesday 29th May 2007
| Workshop - Alternative futures and critical uncertainties: a hands-on workshop | Dr. Dave Mouat and Dr. Scott Bassett (Desert Research Institute, USA) and Dr. David Brunckhorst (University of New England) |
Day 1 Wednesday 30th May 2007
| SESSION ONE - 'Setting the Scene' | Chair: Dr. Gemma Heemskerk (Department of Primary Industries) |
| Conference welcome and introductory remarks | Dr. Chris Pettit |
| Official conference opening and Victorian Geomorphology Reference Group awards | Minister for Agriculture - Joe Helper |
| Principal Research Scientist address "NRM Knowledge management" | Richard MacEwan (Department of Primary Industries) |
| Keynote'Mapping and Modelling land use change: an applicatin of the SLEUTH model' | Professor Keith Clarke (University of California, Santa Barbara) |
| SESSION TWO - 'Natural resource knowledge management' | Chair: Dr Graham Mitchell (Department of Primary Industries, Chief Scientist) |
| Keynote 'Addressing the future through understanding critical uncertainties and linked process models' | Dr. Dave Mouat (Desert Research Institute, USA) |
| Australian Soil Resource Information System | Dr. Neil McKenzie (CSIRO) |
| The art of conversation: a low tech approach to knowledge management | Dr. Sarah Ewing (VCMC) |
| Dissemination of natural resources information via Victorian Resources Online website | Mark Imhof (Department of Primary Industries) |
| Mapping community values for the Murray River Reserves for use in planning for natural area management for conservation, recreation and tourism | Dr. Sharron Pfueller (Monash University) |
| SESSION THREE - 'Landscape analysis and visualisation' | Chair: Dr Chris Pettit (Department of Primary Industries) |
| Keynote 'Understanding place and agreeing purpose: environmental visualisation and other tools' | Professor Ian Bishop (Melbourne University) |
| Making ecological monitoring count: linking monitoring design to management decisions at the farm, catchment and national levels | Dr. Brendan Wintle (Melbourne University) |
| Looking at landscapes – whose view will do? | Dr. Patrick Smith (CSIRO) |
| SESSION FOURa - 'NRM Policy & Investment | Chair: Dr. Michael Crawford (Department of Primary Industries) |
| Nicole and the woodchips: linking good science and public policy decision making | Kimberley Drips (Department of Primary Industries) |
| A simple portable Spatial Multi-Criteria Analysis Shell - MCAS-S: it's application for piroitization of NRM investment | Dr Rob Lesslie (Bureau of Rural Sciences) |
| Adaptation to climate change in Victorian "agricultural" landscapes - nature conservation | Dr. Ian Mansergh (Department of Sustainability and Environment) |
| From government to governance: Logistical consequences for Australia on communicating natural resources knowledge | Dick Osborn (Australian National University) |
| Application of the Scenario Planning and Investment Framework (SPIF) and Catchment Analysis Tool (CAT) in the Corangamite Region | Charlie Hawkins (ENSIS) |
| SESSION FOURb - 'Approches to Ecological Modelling' | Chair: Dr David Duncan (Department of Sustainability & Environment) |
| Spatial models of the changes in the extent of native vegetation across Victoria: Fifteen years of landscape change from 1989 - 2005 - What have we lost, where did we lose it, and what does it matter? | Dr. Matt White (Department of Sustainability and Environment) |
| Reconstructing landscape for biodiversity management predictive models for bird species' occurrence | Jim Thomson (Monash University) |
| Exploring alternative frameworks for ecological realism in spatial models of landscape change | Dr Jim Radford (Deakin University) |
| Reimagining the Suburb: Biodiversity Planning in the Urban Fringe | Dr. Sarah Bekessy (RMIT) |
Day 2 Thursday 31st May 2007
| SESSION FIVE - 'Land use change and scenario modelling' | Chair: Professor Keith Clarke (University of California, Santa Barbara) |
| Keynote ' What if? - a collaborative GIS planning support system' | Dr Richard Kolsterman (University of Akron, Ohio) |
| Assessing water quality of community defined land use scenarios for the Douglas Shire, North Queensland | Dr. Iris Bohnet (CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems) |
| Lower Murray Landscapes Futures | Brett Bryan (CSIRO) |
| Uncertainty in Landscape Models: Sources, Impacts, and Decision-Making | Dr. Kim Lowell (Department of Primary Inudstries) |
| SESSION SIXa - 'Farm to catchment tools' | Chair: Dr Kim Lowell (Department of Primary Industries) |
| Keynote 'Scenario analysis with performance indicators' | Dr David Pullar (University of Queensland) |
| eFarmer - Web based property and catchment planning tool | Geoff Park (NCCMA) |
| Sustainable grazing of saline lands application - Monitoring grazing trials | Greg Beeston (Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia) |
| Platform for Environmental Modelling Support: a Grid Cell Data Infrastructure for Modellers | Tai (T.O.) Chan (Department of Sustainability and Environment) |
| SESSION SIXb - 'Approaches to Ecological Modelling' | Chair: Dr. Ralph Mac Nally (Monash University) |
| Modelling Native Vegetation Condition: Challenges and Opportunities | Dr. Andre Zerger (CSIRO) |
| Genetic approaches make irreplaceable, cost-effective contributions to analysis and monitoring of species' responses to landscape change | Dr. Paul Sunnucks (Monash University) |
| Empirical models of habitat resources provided by revegetation activities | Dr. Peter Vesk (University of Melbourne) |
| Assessing the current conditon of River Red Gum along the Victorian Murrary: from ground survey to validated landscape map | Dr. Shaun Cunningham (Monash University) |
| SESSION SEVEN - 'Social, economic and environmental indicators and landscapes' | Chair: Angela Avery (DPI) |
| Keynote 'Developing a Large Scale Urban Model Simulate Metropolitan Growth and Patterns of Housing and Jobs: The South-East Queensland Region' | Professor Bob Stimson (University of Queensland) |
| Keynote 'Rural social landscapes: from curosity to fashion accessory' | Dr Neil Barr (Department of Primary Industries) |
| Placing people at the centre of landscape assessment | Patricia Fitzsimons (DPI) |
| Understanding regions: an integrated spatial approach | Fiona McKenzie (Department of Sustainability & Environment) |
| A Geography of Place for Resource Governance | Dr David Brunckhorst (University of New England) |
| SESSION EIGHT - 'Where to next?' | Chair: Richard MacEwan (Department of Primary Industries) |
| Plenary presentation | Dr Graham Mitchell (Department of Primary Industries, Chief Scientist) |
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Workshops are also confirmed on the following topics:
- What if? Planning Support System – Prof. Richard Klosterman, University of Akron Ohio
- Land use scenario analysis in ArcGIS - Dr. David Pullar, University of Queensland
- Google Earth – Dr. Jean-Philippe Aurambout, Department of Primary Industries Victoria
- Catchment Analysis Tool (CAT) – Mr. Brendan Christy, Department of Primary Industries Victoria
- SIEVE – a landscape visualization tool – Prof. Ian Bishop & Dr. Christian Stock, University of Melbourne
- Closing the 'know-do' gap: exploring the contribution of knowledge brokering in NRM - Brian Coffey, EWR
- Strategizer - software to predict people’s choice of place and purpose - Assoc. Professor Ray Wyatt, Univeristy of Melbourne
- Land Use Impact Model (LUIM) - Joanne McNeill, Department of Primary Industries Victoria
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Day 2 Thursday 31st May 2007
- Adobe Acrobat Reader is needed to download the above documents (external link)
Sponsorship
The Organising Committee would like to thank the following sponsors for their generous support of the 2007 Place and Purpose Conference.
| Platinum Sponsor: | The Department of Primary Industries Victoria |
| Gold Sponsors: | Land and Water Australia (external link) The Department of Sustainability and Environment (external link) |
| Silver Sponsor: | Land Technologies Alliance |
| Bronze Sponsors: | EWR (external link) Victorian Catchment Management Council (external link) ESRI Australia (external link) Spatial Vision (external link) |
Conference Organising Committee
Dr. Christopher Pettit – Conference Convenor
Dr. Gemma Heemskerk – Conference Co-convenor
Mr. Richard MacEwan
Ms. Joanne McNeill
Dr. Jean-Philippe Aurambout
Conference Office
Attention to: Dr. Gemma Heemskerk (nee Nichol)
Department of Primary Industries
PO Box 4166, Parkville
Victoria 3052
Email: Gemma.Heemskerk@dpi.vic.gov.au
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This document was last reviewed on 18/08/2008.