In acknowledging the significant role of local government as a land manager and planner in regional natural resource management delivery, Delegates of the Concurrent workshop “Natural Resource Management – Regional Delivery: Sustaining Our Communities-International Local Agenda 21Conference in Adelaide in March 2002’ strongly encourages:

• Local Government to approach natural resource management in an integrated manner and as a proactive and equal partner with emerging regional approaches.
• Local Government to respond to the urgent need to resolve natural resource management problems by offering regional NRM bodies access to their entire tool box of resource management instruments, including planning instruments and financial resources.
• Local government to work in partnership with other agencies and resource managers to fully integrate information and knowledge in order to provide all parties access to a common information set for their regions.
• Local government to argue collectively for a dedicated revenue source to adequately fund regional NRM including consideration of a national environmental levy, in recognition that current financial resources are inadequate and inequitable.