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SIRP Monitoring and Evaluation Surveys

Summary and Overall Instructions The Social and Institutional Research Program (SIRP) aims to "contribute to the long-term sustainability of landscapes, lifestyles and livelihoods in rural Australia by funding and managing integrated social, economic and institutional research and learning activities." To help achieve its goals, SIRP now has a formal annual process for monitoring and evaluation (more)...

Directors

Anthea Tinney Chair (non-executive) Ms Tinney is a former deputy secretary of the Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, and prior to retiring in 2008, had a distinguished career in the Australian Public Service including a period as the head of the Cabinet Office in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. She is an experienced Chair and Board member, and was recently appointed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs as the Chair of the Australian (more)...

Our Vision

Our Vision Australia’s landscapes, climate, soils and biota are unique. We are isolated on an ancient continent and have to develop our own solutions to our own problems. Our natural resources are invaluable and irreplaceable and Land & Water Australia is working to ensure that they are sustained for future generations of Australians. We are a national organisation dedicated solely to investing in and managing R&D (more)...
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Knowledge for Regional Natural Resource Management

Achievements and options

This report describes the achievements of Land & Water Australia’s Knowledge for Regional NRM program

Phase 2 of the Knowledge for Regional NRM Program was delivered between July 2006 and June 2008. Three packages of products and services p

Improving Targeting of Weed Biological Control Projects in Australia

As part of the Defeating the Weed Menace Program, Land & Water Australia commissioned the development of a national prioritisation system for improving the targeting of biological control projects to those weeds most likely to yield significant management…

Exploring Agents of Change to Peri-urban Weed Management

Interim Summary Report

The aim of this study was to particularly focus on the drivers to land use changes in relation to invasive weeds. This was achieved through the utilisation of a case study approach facilitated by the conduct of questionnaire surveys of a selected sample…

Elucidating relationships between disturbance and invasion in riparian zones

This project sought to develop improved riparian weed management strategies by analysing the linkages between disturbance from flood events and both weed invasion and tree recruitment in riparian areas. Analysis of an existing dataset containing…

Importation and Release of a New Biological control Agent for Scotch Broom

Technical Report

The broom mite Aceria genistae (Nal.) (Acarina: Eriophyoidea), a gall specialist of Scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius (L.) Link; Fabaceae) approved for release in Australia but never released, was imported by DPI Victoria in 2006. After several generations…

Importation and Release of a New Biological control Agent for Scotch Broom

The purpose of the project was to introduce a new biological control agent for the suppression of Scotch broom in Australia through the importation of healthy starter colonies of the specialist galling mite, Aceria genistae, and its release into southern…

Cost effective surveillance of Emergence of Aquatic Weeds using Robotic Aircraft

The underlying theme of this project was to determine the potential for a robotic aerial platform to undertake surveying and spraying of aquatic weeds. To this effect we had to consider the projected capital and operational costs of the system……