Community-Based Control of Invasive Species

- Paul Martin is a Professor of Law and the Director of the Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law at the University of New England, Australia. He was the leader of the Invasive Animals CRC program 4E: Facilitating Effective Community Action on Invasive Species. - Theodore (Ted) Alter is Professor of Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics and Co- Director of the Center for Economic and Community Development at Pennsylvania State University. He was the research team leader of the Invasive Animals CRC program 4E1: Facilitating Effective Community Action. - Don Hine is a Professor of Psychology at the University of New England, Australia. His work focuses on understanding human dimensions of environmental problems. He was the research team leader of the Invasive Animals CRC program 4E2: Triggers for Effective Action. - Tanya Howard is a Lecturer in Natural Resource Policy and Community Engagement at the University of New England, Australia. She was Post-doctoral Research Fellow for the Invasive Animals CRC program 4E1: Facilitating Effective Community Action.

• Chapter 1: A focus on citizen-led action Chapter 2: The socio-ecological systems approach Chapter 3: Achieving organisational learning in natural resource management Chapter 4: Framing community engagement Chapter 5: Community engagement theory for a new natural resource management paradigm Chapter 6: Strategy and practice for community engagement Chapter 7: Dealing with complexity and change through collective reflection Chapter 8: Managing outcome-focused, engaged ‘human’ research Chapter 9: Using human behaviour change strategy to improve the management of invasive species Chapter 10: Using audience segmentation and targeted social marketing to improve landholder management of invasive animals Chapter 11: Understanding and managing mass media effects on public perceptions of science issues such as invasive species management

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