National Land and Water Resources Audit Publications

Building a Business Case for Investment in Soil Information

Soil information is valuable, but the economic rationale for public funding of soil information – especially large scale mapping programs – appears to be poorly understood and/or articulated at present. Public investment in soil information needs to be strongly linked to market failure and public good arguments. A value chain concept and economic principles enable us to identify the following areas in which market failure arguments could be used in support of a ‘business (more)...

Case Studies of Current Regional/Catchment Integrated Assessments

This report provides detailed evaluation and analysis of each of the eight cast studies profiled for the National Land and Water Resources Audit (NLWRA) as part of Case Studies of Curren

Coasts, estuarine and marine: status of information for repoting against indicators

Effective management of natural resources requires good quality data and information at the right level of detail to be available for those who need it. Australia invests significant resources each year in the collection and maintenance of data to inform natural resource management decisions. Since 1997, the National Land & Water Resources Audit has played a vital role in the national coordination, collation and reporting of this information. The Audit (more)...

Condition of wetlands and riparian zones

Cradle Coast Organic Carbon Monitoring Trial

Soil organic matter (SOM) is a key soil component because it influences biological, physical, and chemical properties that define soil productivity and quality (Studdert & Echeverria 2000). It includes all the organic components of the soil and is directly derived from plants and animals. Soil organic carbon (SOC) is the driving force behind most microbially mediated processes (Fontaine et al. 2003) and equals about 58% of (more)...

Dairying for tomorrow

Determination of Data and Information Requirements for Best Management Practice in Australia's Rangelands

The National Land and Water Resources Audit were contracted by the Australian Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to provide an analysis of the data and information needs underpinning sustainable grazing land uses in the Australian Rangelands. The purpose of this project was to prepare an analytical report on current recommended management practices, their relevance and the extent of their use across rangelands regions (bioregions). Rural Directions Pty. Ltd., a South (more)...

Developing Conceptual to Support the NSW Wetlands Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Program

The National Land and Water Resources Audit (NLWRA) recommended a number of indicators under six themes for measuring improvement in wetland extent, distribution and condition. The indicators are being trialled in two Catchment Management Authority (CMA) regions, Hunter Central Rivers and Central West.

Development of estuarine report cards consistent with the national estuarine environmental condition assessment framework

This document has been prepared for the National Land & Water Resources Audit (the Audit) by the Water Science Branch of the Department of Water. The Audit is funding the development of a national report card system based on the emerging National Estuarine Environmental Condition Assessment Framework (NEECAF) (Mount and Arundel 2007). This report looks at the process of developing report cards with the intention of integration and translating West (more)...