Triple Helix Consulting - landscapes, lifestyles & livelihoods

 

Triple Helix Consulting works with progressive organisations in the public and private sectors to develop and implement more sustainable policies and practices. The ‘triple helix’ is Andrew Campbell’s metaphor for sustainability—the intertwined and interdependent strands of landscapes, lifestyles and livelihoods.

Hello & Welcome

The Triple Helix Consulting site offers a range of information resources including publications, presentations and projects. Andrew Campbell can be contacted via email andrew@triplehelix.com.au

Latest Publications

Paddock to Plate:  food, farming and Victoria's progress towards sustainability

A project exploring the future of the Victorian food system in a carbon, water, energy and nutrient-constrained world.  The background paper can be downloaded here.

Managing Australian Soils

A policy discussion paper commissioned by the National Committee for Soil and Terrain, looking at how Australia could develop a more coherent and cohesive approach to soil policy, management and knowledge.  

| pdf (6Mb) |  More info: see projects

Food, Energy, Water:  conflicting insecurities (and the rare win-wins offered by soil stewardship) 

A feature article in the US Journal of Soil & Water Conservation discussing how soil stewardship is one of the few win-wins in managing food security, energy security and water security issues, which are often in tension. 

A Climate Change Primer for Regional Natural Resource Management (NRM).
Regional climate change implications reviewed in a primer targeted at the Board members and senior staff of regional NRM and catchment bodies. | pdf (1.3Mb) |

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The Getting of Knowledge—a guide to funding and managing applied research. A practical guide to managing applied reseach at a project, program and portfolio level. | pdf (1.7Mb) | Hard copies can be ordered (free) via LWA: ring CanPrint on 1800776616 and quote product code PK071243.

Latest Papers and Presentations

  • Knowing & Learning to deal with the climate challenge
    Presented to the actKM Conference in Canberra on 14 October 2008.   Exploring climate change impacts and the implications for how we learn and manage knowledge across the economy and society. | pdf (1.3Mb) |
  • Feeding the world (without trashing the resource base)
    Presented at the Soft Commodities Conference, Sydney 8 August 2008. The challenge of doubling world food production over the next 40 years in a carbon, water and energy constrained world. | pdf (4 Mb)
  • Relationships in applied research
    Presentation to the CRC Association Conference, Sydney May 2008. Insights, tips and tools to assist research managers to identify and sustain key relationships.
    | pdf (2Mb) |
  • Landscapes, Lifestyles & Livelihoods  - a March 2008 overview of the key issues in environment and natural resources in Australia | ppt (12Mb) | A video of this lecture can be found here.
  • The Australian Natural Resource Management Knowledge System.   An analysis of the performance, purposefulness and cohesion of the NRM knowledge system. | pdf (1.4Mb) | This report can be ordered (free) via LWA: ring CanPrint on 1800776616 and quote product code PR061081.
  • Knowledge for managing Australian landscapes - a comprehensive exploration of knowledge, knowing and learning for sustainability as applied to managing natural resources in Australia | pdf (4.1Mb) |
  • Stop treating soil like dirt.  An opinion piece published in The Australian Financial Review on 5 March 2008 (p79) | pdf (108 kb) |
  • How the US is tracking trends in its natural environment - 2007 study tour report examining the US National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. | pdf (1.8Mb) |
  • A French-Australian comparison - young countries in old landscapes vs old countries in young landscapes | pdf (400kb) |