The ‘triple helix’ is Andrew Campbell’s metaphor for sustainability—the intertwined and interdependent strands of landscapes, lifestyles and livelihoods.
Triple Helix Consulting is currently in 'pause mode' as Andrew Campbell is working full-time at Charles darwin University as the inaugural Director of the Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods (RIEL). Occasional consultancies are still possible, subject to the blessing of CDU and only if they are highly complementary to the strategic directions of RIEL. But in all likelihood, Triple Helix activities will slow to a trickle for the foreseeable future.
Triple Helix Consulting clients are listed on the partners page.
Andrew Campbell remains the Managing Director of Triple Helix Consulting. Andrew has been at the cutting edge of natural resource management in Australia for 25 years. He has played influential roles in research (notably as CEO of Land & Water Australia from 2000-2006), in policy as a senior executive in the Australian Government, and in extension with the Victorian Government. Andrew was instrumental in the development of Landcare, working with Rick Farley from the National Farmers' Federation and Phillip Toyne from the Australian Conservation Foundation to develop the proposal to then Prime Minister Bob Hawke that catalysed the Decade of Landcare. Andrew was Australia's first National Landcare Facilitator from 1989-92. He also pioneered the concept of Whole Farm Planning as Manager of the privately-funded Potter Farmland Plan initiative in western Victoria in the 1980s.
Andrew Campbell is Chair of the Board of the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), a Visiting Fellow at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University (ANU), a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and a Director of the Future Farm Industries CRC.
Andrew’s family has been farming in western Victoria since the 1860s. He has managed the family farm near Cavendish (farm forestry, prime lambs and wool) from a distance since 1987, with the help of a neighbour. He lives in Darwin with his partner Kate, two children and a menagerie of chooks and pets.
Andrew returned from long service leave in August 2010, enjoying a long-planned and much anticipated 14 week, 18,000km family camping trip around the central and north-eastern chunks of the Australian continent. Blog and photos
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