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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Identify sources of information on bioregional characteristics and resources
   • Identify the need, or respond to a request, for bioregional analysis
   • Research relevant sources and locations of information about the bioregion
   • Access identified sources and information
2. Organise self or others to obtain information on bioregional characteristics and resources
   • Locate information relevant to the particular request
   • Coordinate and monitor team work to obtain required information
   • Discuss resolutions to problems accessing information with designated person and implement where appropriate
3. Ensure information meets request
   • Assess information for its validity and reliability
   • Seek clarification and assistance from client group or individual where information is unclear or difficult to understand
   • Obtain additional information where available information is inadequate
   • Combine different types of information where appropriate, to provide a response to the request
4. Report on bioregional analysis
   • Develop a report format, plan and structure
   • Compile report using clear and concise language, and edit as appropriate
   • Produce report in format required by client
5. Finalise reporting process
   • Arrange to review and sign off on report with designated person where required
   • Present report to community group or client
   • Make a record of report

Range Statement

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Performance Evidence

The candidate must be assessed on their ability to integrate and apply the performance requirements of this unit in a workplace setting. Performance must be demonstrated consistently over time and in a suitable range of contexts.

The candidate must provide evidence that they can:

identify sources of information on bioregional characteristics and resources

organise self or others to extract information on bioregional characteristics and resources

ensure information meets requests

employ appropriate media to present a report

prepare, finalise and present a report

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:

permaculture principles and ethics

bioregional characteristics and resources, such as:

a bioregion as a land and water territory whose limits are defined not by political boundaries, but by the geographical limits of human communities and ecological systems

a town or a segment of a city as typical as the main node of a bioregion, as was the pattern of most settlement and economic development until the 20th century

water catchment as one of the key identifiers of the bioregion, with the water catchment, storage, use/treatment of effluent and the water quality of rivers and creeks as essential to permaculture design

The Ecological Vegetation Class (EVC) of the area or the population of endemic species, as well as the suitability of any other species to grow or breed in the area

history, social make-up, land use and population information that go towards understanding an area

bioregional resources, including the human and social capital or culture of an area, its capacity to produce its own needs and supply surplus to others and its resilience in responding to change or catastrophe

the natural (biophysical), built, social and cultural elements of the area, including water supply and catchment management systems, transport systems, local exchange trading systems (LETS) and cooperatives, food supply systems, fuel and fibre supply systems

data held by local councils, community groups, historical societies, individuals and organisations that adds value to a study of the bioregion

the following bioregional issues: transition initiatives, local food and water security and bioregional self-reliance regarding other components of daily life from local sources as opposed to importing basic needs from long distances at a high cost to the environment

embodied energy, including how to measure it and compare it with energy output over the life of the item, and consideration of the waste disposal of an item as part of its energy ‘cost’

types of information sources

methods and means of accessing data

methods of presenting and formatting information

means of validating information

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