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Advanced airborne technologies for mapping and monitoring native Australian vegetation

Airborne sensors can be used by natural resource managers and researchers to collect data about things which can be seen, such as vegetation cover, as well as characteristics like canopy condition and water use, which are not visible. Importantly, faster and more accurate data collection over large areas can be achieved by combining light detection and ranging (lidar) with other airborne technologies which include multi and hyper spectral scanners, digital video and still photography. Lidar can be (more)...

Agri-environmental stewardship program architecture: towards convergence in the USA and Europe?

Finding of an overseas mission, 15 October to 15 November 2006

This discussion paper reviews the evolution and experience with environmental stewardship schemes or agri-environmental measures (AEMs) as they are generically known in the USA and in Europe, particularly the UK.

Agricultural land retirement as an environmental policy

Summary by Sonja Chandler of the work of Professor Ben White, Dr Jananee Raguragavan and Dr Rohan Sadler

This fact sheet outlines research that uses the shadow price (the value of a land parcel over a year ) of land and analyses the potential use of contract design for cost-efficient agricultural land retirement schemes in Australia.

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Alternative Landscape Futures

A model for minimizing the impacts of pesticides on the riverine environment

Alternative Landscape Futures (ALF) analysis is a long-term, large area, land and environment assessment approach for assisting communities and policy makers make decisions about planning the future of that area. It provides a spatially explicit, regional scale perspective on the combined effects of the multiple policies, plans, population and land use pressures affecting the availability of natural resources and ecosystem services for a geographic area. The (more)...

Breaking through the equity barrier in environmental policy

Environmental and natural resource policy has nowadays come under the banner of increased economic efficiency, as witnessed by the growing popularity of market-based instruments. While few argue against the need for efficiency, there are worries that othe

Carbon Uptake and Water Use of Vegetation Under Climate Change

Accumulation and storage of carbon in trees is one method of sequestration which may help offset increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations. However, for every molecule of CO2 absorbed by a leaf, up to a thousand molecules of water are released as transpiration, water that has moved out of the soil into the atmosphere. Therefore, simply planting more trees to absorb more CO2 is not as risk-free as may originally be thought, (more)...

Characterising South-West Australia's rainfall using speleotherms and climate models

Final report on the project in which Dr Pauline Treble used chemical analysis in the layers formed on cave stalagmites to discover the prehistoric variability of Australia’s rainfall. These have then been compared with climate model’s predictions of the past. The research is providing a deeper understanding of the speleothem record for south-western Australia and the Murray Darling Basin. Pauline’s fieldwork has recovered material suitable to know what drip water tells about the surface rainfall (more)...

Citizen Science Roundtable

for Natural Resource Management

Land & Water Australia hosted a roundtable to bring together some of Australia’s leaders in the area of Citizen Science. The aim of the workshop was to showcase better Citizen Science approaches and share experiences of citizens engaging in the science of natural resources including climate, water, biodiversity, phenology, (life cycle events) and soil. What is Citizen Science? Citizen Science is a hands-on approach to engaging people to gather (more)...