A synthesis report on the Audit regional/catchment 2008-08-04T23:08:52Z 2008-09-05T03:50:39Z A synthesis report on the Audit regional/catchment Hyder Consulting Hyder Consulting <p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">This synthesis report is a review of selected projects managed by the Audit on catchment condition reporting and the report card concept. This report includes:<br /> </span></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A categorisation and review of nine projects: </span></span></li> </ul> <ol> <li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Australian catchment, river and estuary assessment 2002 (Audit, State and Commonwealth agencies and CRC&rsquo;s)</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Report card review and concept development (C. Auricht, Information Systems Consultant, 2004)</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Regional and overseas case studies (Hyder Consulting 2005 &ndash; 2006) </span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Integrated catchment (or regional) assessment &ndash; needs assessment and options for the Audit (Report on workshop by Thorman, R., Audit , 2005) </span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">National assessment of catchment condition &ndash; scoping study (Chesson, J., Kingham, R., Bureau of Rural Resources, 2005) </span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Signposts for Australian Agriculture: a framework for developing economic and social indicators (Ashton, D., Goesch, T., Australian Bureau of Agricultural Economics, 2005) </span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Regional integrated catchment condition reporting &ndash; catchments to the coast (Kingham, R., Chesson, J., Georgeson, L., Grant M. Bureau of<br /> Rural Sciences, 2007)</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Triple bottom line indicators for a Victorian catchment management authority (L.Tiller, P. Fitzsimmons Department of Primary Industries Victoria, 2007) </span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Tasmanian integrated catchment reporting (Georges Catchment) (RMCG Consultants, Melbourne, 2007) </span></span></li> </ol> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A summary of the projects and the results</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The results of a telephone survey of NRM regions to determinecurrent use of report cards based on indicators </span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Recommendations.</span></span></li> </ul> PN21474 PN21474 HCO004744