Showing posts with label mapping things that move. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mapping things that move. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 09, 2013

Why environmental overlays don't work ,




If the reasons why the overlay car has no wheels , were fully explained easily the public would have rejected the idea decades ago when -Overlays  first started to be used to try and locate  " problems".

The first thing to remember is that if you go looking for problems --you will always find them . People on the public payroll do it so easy its a wonder we ain't all broke over it .A better process has a demonstrabale positive focus- not just talk or 'worry" as you might expect people who don't KNOW the environment worry more - more than reasoned resilience scientists do  .
The second thing is that on the surface it sounds reasonable - "we are trying to protect biodiversity and prevent salinization and so on" . The fact is that good decisions here take real expertise and real respect for land managers and without properly trained and accountable interaction the result can be poor ( Name one land manager in the State of Victoria who would sign the performance test  of the authors here )

The clincher is the fact that the 4 headed monsters who have made an industry out of mapmaking  have never been asked by Parliament why they are dumbly  trying to map things that move .

I am not publishing " the answer " to a better way to do bioversity planning till the Government recognise the big problem of this moving feast madness in the first place - all these overlays confuse and conflict , let alone mislead an efficient risk management assessment process. They are so deep in incompetency sh..... they too don't know why it doesn't work.