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Title Shaping change : natural resource management, agriculture and the role of extension / editors Jess Jennings, Roger Packham, Dedee Woodside
Published [Wodonga, Vic.] : Australasia Pacific Extension Network, 2011
©2011

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Description iv, 228 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 30 cm
Contents Introduction: Challenges and future directions for extension/ Jennings, Packham and Woodside -- Sect. I: Defining the field, historical development and conceptual frameworks. Enabling change in rural and regional Australia/ Vanclay and Leach -- The origin of extension/ Jennings -- Past and present history of extension in New Zealand/ Parminter -- Theories and approaches of extension: review of extension in capacity building/ Coutts and Roberts -- The farming systems approach/ Packham -- The worlds we create: desiging learning systems for the underworld of extension/ Ison and Russell -- Sect. 2: principles and practices for enabling change. Social principles for agricultural extension for the promotion of natural resource management/ Vanclay -- Adoption of conservation practices by rural landholders/ Pannell, Marshall, Barr, Curtis, Vanclay and Wilkinson -- The role of extension for improving natural resource management: the Australian experience/ Millar -- The role of extension for improving natural resource management: the New Zealand experience/ Parminter -- Local agricultural and environmental knowledge: working with Thai institutes and communities/ Robinson -- Outstanding in her field/ McGowan -- Extension planning/ Crisp and Holt -- monitoring, evaluation and reporting of extension/ Roberts and Coutts --
Sect. 3: Building social capital. Building social capital to achieve sustainale farm practices/ Love, Carroll and Prior -- Capacity building in farming systems/ Nettle and Paine -- Power and participation: exploring the traditions of power/ Kelly -- Myers Briggs type Indicator preferences by industry and implications for extension/ Strachan -- Resilience and productivity/ Paine, Crawford and Nettle -- Sect. 4: Economics, policy and the market for extension. Economics and extension/ Marsh, Pannell and Llewellyn -- The contribution of research to productivity growth in Australian broadacre agriculture/ Mullen and Cox -- Public and private extension/ Stone -- Extension policy in Australia- challenges and solutions/ Leach
Summary Shaping Change presents the current state of play of Extension, and its role in Natural Resource Management and commercial agricultural industry for the Australasia-Pacific region. It is a prime text for under- and post-graduate students, and an essential reference manual for new and experienced Extension professionals alike, be they engaged exclusively in environmental conservation, agricultural productivity, or more commonly both
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Agricultural extension work -- Australasia.
Agricultural extension work -- Pacific Area.
Agricultural extension work.
Rural extension work -- Australasia
Natural resources -- Management.
Rural extension work -- Pacific Area
Rural extension work
Rural extension -- Australasia.
Rural extension -- Pacific Area.
Author Jennings, Jess, editor
Packham, R. G., editor
Woodside, D. P, editor
Australasia Pacific Extension Network, issuing body
ISBN 9780957703070
Other Titles Natural resource management, agriculture and the role of extension