Resilience of agri"industries neighbouring the Blue Mountains World Heritage Area

There is a growing interest in applying concepts of resilience and complex adaptive systems to questions of sustainability. This research note describes the preliminary stages of a project that has used an interpretive lens of 'panarchies in social-ecological systems' as a means to investigate issues faced by agri-industries neighbouring the Blue Mountains World Heritage Area. Beginning with a brief description of the situation, conceptual and methodological aspects drawn upon in this project are described. The way in which this framework has been applied is discussed, along with complementary aspects of the inquiry being developed.