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In Australia, as in other developed countries, rural industries are responding to increasing pressure to demonstrate their environmental credentials. At the same time, there is an increasing trend toward the shedding to the local level of roles and responsibilities for environmental stewardship. In responding to these requirements, industries and people based in the rangelands face particular difficulties. This paper discusses the potential benefits of regional planning for resource use and management, and goes on to propose a new approach to rangelands R&D which attempts to link productive use and ecological, sustainability within a framework of regional resource planning.