Integrate or Perish—Lessons in Integrated NRM from North Central Victoria

The establishment and maturation of the catchment management framework in Victoria has influenced the development of a landscape approach to the protection and restoration of land, water and biodiversity resources. At the regional catchment scale, integrated approaches such as Biodiversity Action Planning have led to a clearer understanding of the complexity of landscape processes and the application of policy, extension, information management and community engagement tools that address the underlying causes of declining catchment health.