Session 3 August 24 2023: Agile SCRUM Approach to Conservation Standards

Stuart Cowell

Stuart is a co-director of Conservation Management, a social enterprise that supports communities and individuals to use the Conservation Standards and Healthy Country Planning. Stuart is an active coach and facilitator, and has helped develop and implement plans and projects at all scales, as well as supported a great many people to learn and use the Conservation Standards. Stuart owes his expertise in Healthy Country Planning to over twenty-five years of experience, working at the forefront of Natural Resource Management. Stuart is renowned for a pragmatic approach to land management, ensuring all stakeholder needs are met while helping to find solutions and an effective path forwards.

Stuart has been instrumental in developing the widely used Healthy Country Planning concept –  a community-based adaptation of the Open Standards adaptive management framework in the context of remote Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. He lives in nipaluna (Hobart), lutrawita (Tasmania).