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Learning as We Go: Catchment Management in the Urban Rural Fringe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2015

Liz Western  and
Alan Pilgrim
Liz Western
Affiliation:
Western Australian Water & Rivers Commission
Alan Pilgrim
Affiliation:
Curtin University of Technology
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The Swan Mundaring Community Catchment Project (SMCCP) was a three year Natural Heritage Trust (NHT) funded partnership project between the Wooroloo Brook Land Conservation District Committee, the Eastern Metropolitan Regional Council, the City of Swan, the Shire of Mundaring and Agriculture WA. The project was established in 1997 in response to a clear community demand for catchment-based coordination for existing initiatives and the recognised advantages of a strategic approach to future catchment management activities.

The SMCCP was one of the key Landcare initiatives of the Shire of Mundaring's Environmental Management Strategy. The success of the catchment project and a broad range of other Landcare and environmental initiatives within the shire was recognised in September 1999, when the Shire of Mundaring was awarded the biennial Telstra Local Government State Landcare Award. In addition a local community group, the Hovea-Parkerville Community Conservation Group was equal winner of the State Living Streams Award, sponsored by the Water and Rivers Commission. These awards are testimony to the ongoing commitment of the community and the Shire of Mundaring to valuing and protecting the environment.

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Australian Journal of Environmental Education , Volume 17 , 2001 , pp. 143 - 148
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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