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Conference Paper Synergies for Social, Ecological, and Economic Recovery on Newly- Created Commons(2000) Brunckhorst, David"This discussion draws on a variety of parts of a puzzle and assembles a different perspective for development of future Common Property Resource regimes. From this landscape ecologist's point of view, we must urgently move on from theory and historical lessons to boldly design and adaptively or experimentally develop New Commons (common property resource management institutions) as potential long-term solutions to restoration and future sustainability of rapidly degrading environments. Without repeating theory or concepts that are well known to institutional analysts and political scientists studying Common Pool Resources, I attempt to draw together the identified characteristics of successful enduring Common Property regimes with the needs for maintaining and restoring social and ecological capital, especially in rural areas. I then highlight the concepts and logistical objectives behind the 30 year old UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Program, which appears to have great potential as an operational framework within which to design and assemble new commons as experimental models. The novel arrangements, experience, and lessons from one such model--the Bookmark Biosphere project in South Australia-- are described as an example."Conference Paper Creating Contemporary Commons to Enhance Economic Productivity: A Grazing Commons in Rural Australia(2000) Coop, Phillip; Brunckhorst, David"The loss of ecological function across landscapes and whole regions is clearly a global priority, not only because of the direct impacts on biodiversity and the processes it sustains but also the social consequences arising in communities whose very existence is dependent on this natural capital. Conventional attempts to address these issues invariably fail to capture appropriators wholes and are hampered through; narrowly focused programmes, entrenched property rights, institutional impediments, economic incentives and inappropriate spatial and temporal scales. "The enduring resource systems of Common Property Resources (CPR), collectively managed appear to contribute ecological and social resilience within an external context of high risk and uncertainty. The sustaining vigour of successful common property regimes (CPR) has provided the interface through which the demands placed on the natural environment by these communities were more closely matched to the broader scale natural processes that supplied these environmental goods and services, both spatially and temporally. We need to revisit these institutional forms and determine, through application, if these social organisational arrangements are socially and ecologically robust, to deliver sustainable rural futures. "A critical step in this endeavor and one of the greatest challenges facing researchers undertaking this type of study is to strategically commence adoption of CPR concepts utilising the experience gained by institutional and political theorists and applying them to on-ground scenarios, in a variety of contexts including those in western federated nations. Once demonstrated through application, the CPR approach, with its unique qualities of flexibility, collaboration and scale, may evolve into a powerful tool capable of addressing critical issues that have to date evaded the institutional constraints of conventional paradigms. "This paper outlines the early development of one such model and details the efforts of a group of graziers in Australia who are developing a contemporary CPR from private parcels of land in an attempt to address the degradational spiral that continues to challenge them, and their rural counterparts worldwide."