Key Result Areas
The CRC's strategic directions are focused on four Key Result
Areas which were defined through the work of the CRC's first round,
and discussions among research users in the savannas. Key
Result Areas>>
Research themes
The Centre has a linking approach to research: our research
program is organised around four integrated themes rather than
different research disciplines or sectors. The four Themes are:
- Landscape Ecology & Health
- Industry & Community Natural Resource Management
- Regional Planning & Management
- Human Capability Development.
Research themes >>
Research across a vast landscape
Our research program is driven by the need to make tropical
savannas research more useful to research users and by two major
factors:
- There are and will continue to be, increasing pressures to
develop and intensify the use of natural resources in northern
Australia. This will come from both entrepreneurial investment and
existing enterprises wishing to increase productivity
- It is far less costly in public and private terms to maintain
and protect the environment than it is to renew and restore it
after it has been degraded.
One of the reasons people value the tropical savannas is that
they still retain many of the natural and cultural values that have
been lost in southern Australia—the flip side of this
situation is that the low population of the tropical savannas makes
it difficult to develop a "critical mass" of researchers in many
disciplines.
The Tropical Savannas CRC helps to overcome this problem by
creating projects that bring together researchers from its 16
partner agencies spread across Queensland, Western Australia and
the Northern Territory.
The TS-CRC is well placed to take a whole-of-savannas view of
land-management research and to link researchers from
different sectors (e.g. pastoral and conservation); from different
disciplines (e.g. biophysical scientists and ethno-ecologists) and
different states and territories.
In this way the research carried out be the Centre adds value to
the research carried out by our partner agencies.
