The Border Ranges Rainforest Biodiversity Management Plan

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The Border Ranges Rainforest Biodiversity Management Plan (the Plan) is designed to protect the biodiversity of the region; “[it] covers the Australian Government’s Border Ranges North and South (Queensland and New South Wales) Biodiversity Hotspot”. (2010) This essay will detail the findings of a policy risk assessment on a proposed management option put forward for the protection of the Border Ranges biodiversity that is “76%…. private land”. (2010) However first of all a brief typology of the categories of risk will be presented along with a brief discussion of selected instruments.

Possible Risks

Martin and Williams (2010, p.7-11) describe three categories of risk namely political, instrument and spillover. The findings of the risk assessment will present these in more detail as they apply to the policy option examined.

Instruments

For the protection of biodiversity in the Border Ranges, a number of instruments are available. First are the regulatory instruments that involve, among others, how the owners of properties use the land within the area. For example, individual director liability could be extended to biodiversity considerations. (Young et al., 1996) Such measures are deigned to change behavior and control the action carried out on the properties by placing responsibility on the owners to maintain the future of the region’s biodiversity. However as Martin et al state, if not designed well regulations are not optimal strategies for behavioral change. (Martin and Verbeek, 2006, p. 178) Second are price based and financial instruments that could include the likes of donations or revolving funds. (Young et al., 1996) “In the USA a [tax] deduction is specifically provided for the monetary value of a conser...

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