This presentation aims to trace the approach taken in delivering the Ecological Footprint project across 3 very different local government organisations and their communities, some of the details and results of the various projects carried out, and the learning which may be of use to similar organisations or future project areas related to engaging with...

Environmental policy making and its implementation has in the main suffered from a lack of credible review and evaluation. This has resulted in a generally poor understanding of policy effectiveness, or success, especially in terms of outcomes achieved and their linkages to the policies that underpin them.

Ecological Footprint analysis is gaining in reputation and credibility in its capacity to usefully inform governments, organisations and communities on the excesses of our society’s resource consumption and our population’s increasing pressure on diminishing natural resources.

NSW is the only State where local councils have a statutory requirement to prepare annual state of the environment reports. This presentation attempts to outline practitioner’s experiences in SoE reporting, its success or otherwise in delivering on the interpretations of the statutory and non statutory reporting provisions and on the range of outcomes that make...