ABSTRACT
Australia's outback regions have become the focus of renewed development interests from industry and political spheres, which include, for example, more intensive agricultural and irrigation development and managed population growth. There is mounting pressure for outback regions to explore options for diversifying the use of natural resources (Holmes, 1996) and their portfolios of products; in particular, diversifying into growing service industries such as tourism and potential new international markets for environmental services. Outback regions have a potential to provide environmental services such as carbon sequestration and biodiversity credits to prospective international markets (Faith et al, 2003; Williams et al. 2004). These regions also face increasing demands by society for tourism, recreation and biodiversity conservation and by traditional owners for additional use and access rights.
