Accelerating Landscape Change in the Goulburn Broken Catchment A. Alexandra 1 Accelerating landscape change on the slopes and grazing country Jason Alexandra 1 ABSTRACT Landscape change is emerging as a concept to describe fundamental landuse, land management and vegetation management changes undertaken on a major scale to improve landscape health and to address problems such as loss of biodiversity, salinity, declining water quality etc. There is now an emerging consensus on the scale, urgency and nature of the NRM challenges and the interconnectedness of biodiversity, vegetation, ecosystem function and landscape health. However, there is currently less clarity about what the options are for achieving the desired outcomes including biodiversity conservation and habitat enhancement. Many contemporary processes that result in change of rural landscapes are ad hoc and without clear policy logic. Landscape change should be recognised as a deliberate policy reform process - one which is smart, in the sense that it is capable of catalysing outcomes effectively by working with changing community and market values. This paper reports the findings of an innovative project commissioned by the Goulburn Broken CMA. The project is exploring options for accelerating land use change using smart incentives, new approaches to attracting substantial investment in revegetation and better integration of NRM and land use planning. KEYWORDS Landscape Change Reafforestation Goulburn Broken Catchment Environmental Investment Policy Instruments Land Use Reform 1 Contact details: Alexandra & Associates Pty Ltd, 16 Homestead Road, Eltham 3095, phone: 03 9431 3426, email: jasona@impaq.com.au