Editing Community-based economics (section)

=== Australia ===
Government agencies and community groups have protocols for engaging with Aboriginal communities. In regional Australia, resource management practitioners apply projects according to engagement protocols transferred from remote Australia.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Carter |first1=Jennifer |title=Protocols, particularities, and problematising Indigenous 'engagement' in community-based environmental management in settled Australia |journal=The Geographical Journal |date=2010 |volume=176 |issue=3 |page=1 |doi=10.1111/j.1475-4959.2010.00355.x}}</ref> Various state governments in Australia devolve powers to regional organisations to decide how to invest public funds in [[environmental management]].<ref name="marshall">{{cite journal |last1=Marshall |first1=Graham R |last2=McNeill |first2=Judith |last3=Reeve |first3=I J |title=Economics for Accountability in Community-Based Environmental Governance |date=2011 |url=https://apo.org.au/node/151201}}</ref> This model is an example of a community based economic approach to ecological management. This approach is one that the Australian state governments have justified based on the potential benefits of developing the capacities of landholders and other stakeholders. 
Stakeholders then respond self-reliantly (both as individuals and in groups) to the environmental challenges.<ref name="marshall" />