"This report is an analysis of the results of research undertaken in 2008–2009 as part of the Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre (DKCRC) Core Project 5 (CP5) ‘Desert Services that Work: Demand Responsive Services for Desert Settlements’. This research project was undertaken in the Northern Territory and led by the Centre for Appropriate Technology (CAT), a core partner of the DKCRC. The project examined the implementation of new Northern Territory (NT) Government models of housing tenancy and asset management across the shire and community levels of governance, with the intent of mapping accountability and the role of tenant demand as an interface between demand and supply issues. The research contributes to the broader research questions about demand responsive services that were investigated by the whole CP5 research team across four states and a number of service models. The NT research focused on the impact of changes to service delivery in the communities of Ali Curung and Lajamanu, situated in two new local government shires – the Barkly Shire and Central Desert Shire respectively." - Introduction,
Notes
The Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre (2003-2010) was an unincorporated joint venture with 28 partners whose mission was to develo,
Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT). and disseminate an understanding of sustainable living in remote desert environments, deliver enduring regional economies and livelihoods based on Desert Knowledge, and create the networks to market this knowledge in other desert lands.,
Table of contents
Executive summary -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review -- Evidence-based policy making -- Mobility literature -- Housing design literature -- Mobility and housing management literature -- Agency -- Conclusion -- 3. Methodology -- Research permission -- Demand and supply side data gathering -- Research limitations -- Community researchers -- 4. The research sites -- Ali Curung -- Lajamanu -- 5. Research results Round 1: Telling the house story -- Key results from interview rounds 2 and 3 -- Supply side results -- 6. Research findings -- Discordance -- Cycles of policy and people -- Mobility -- Agency -- Recognition space -- Insights towards constructing desert services that work -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Appendices.,
Language
English,
Subject
Housing management,
Government relations,
Housing policy,
Indigenous peoples,
Housing,