BRS SEMINAR SERIES PRESENTS: Friday 9 September Thinking About Future Challenges for Natural Resource Management Steven Cork – Land & Water Australia Kate Delaney – Delaney & Associates Not all aspects of the future are predictable, no matter how much information we gather. Methods like scenario planning aim to bring together analysis of past trends with informed imagination about plausible future trends and events to address questions like “what might we need to be prepared for” and “how might we get early warning of which possible future is unfolding”. But often when people are brought together to think about the future they feel ill-informed and ill-equipped to make a contribution. This was the experience in Land & Water Australia in 2003, which prompted that organisation to embark on a project to pull together information on past trends, drivers of future change and plausible challenges for the future of natural resource policy and management. In this seminar we will report on the process and outcomes of that project and discuss more broadly the ways in which structured thinking about the future is being used in organisations in Australasia and around the world. 11.00am - 12:00noon (morning tea at 10:45am) Edmund Barton Conference Centre (in the courtyard) Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Edmund Barton Building Kings Avenue, Canberra Bookings not required. Parking can be a problem, we suggest taking a taxi. For further details, please call the BRS Seminar Coordinator on 6272 4011. For further information on BRS Seminars or to obtain papers/presentations supplied by previous seminar presenters, please visit our website at: www.brs.gov.au/brsseminars