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The operational reality behind the rhetoric of integrated natural resource
management poses significant challenges for resource managers, resource use
planners and researchers. A variety of frameworks for integrated resource
planning and use have been espoused. These tend to reflect the bias of the
discipline or stakeholder group fostering the approach and may therefore be
unpalatable to, and ignored by other groups. In this paper, we are concern
ed with improving the integration of research outcomes into decision making
. Rather than propose a framework, we take a pragmatic view of the roles of
managers, planners and scientists. In doing so, we draw principally on pra
ctical experience derived from an initiative in a rural catchment in tropic
al Australia. On this basis, we propose a particular and emerging role in d
esigning approaches to adaptive decision support that provide opportunities
for integrating research outcomes into decision making. (C) 2001 Elsevier
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