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Future Vision and Options for Irrigation

This publication outlines the framework for forward planning research, development and extension delivery for the irrigation industry and to assist the industry to contribute to several Australian Government Reviews considering research and development and extension/knowledge management in 2010.

The framework has been developed by the National Program for Sustainable Irrigation and Irrigation Australia Limited.

Governance assessment framework for Terrestial Protected Areas

A protected area is a clearly defined geographical space, recognised, dedicated and managed, through legal or other effective means, to achieve the long-term conservation of nature with associated ecosystem services and cultural values. Six categories (one of which has two sub-categories) of protected area are recognised: I(a) Strict Nature Reserve, I(b) Wilderness Area, II. National Park, III. Natural Monument, IV. (more)...

Signposts for Australian Agriculture – Review of social components of the framework

Signposts for Australian Agriculture is a project coordinated by the National Land and Water Resources Audit, with initial funding from the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Recognising the importance of this initiative, the Bureau of Rural Sciences has allocated its own funding to support Signposts. The 2005-06 funding includes provision to carry out a review of the social components of the Signposts for Australian Agriculture Framework. This review follows on from a review carried out (more)...

Implementation

This report presents the National Framework for the assessment of EWRs of GDEs. It has been designed to assist water resource, catchment and ecosystem managers, or their advisors, in considering the needs of GDEs in water allocation planning policy.

Field Studies

There are presently a limited number of tools available for quantifying the level of groundwater dependence within ecosystems or identifying EWRs (see Report 1). With particular regards to defining ERFs (that describe the relationship between ecophysiology…

Assessment Toolbox

The primary purpose of water allocation planning in Australia is to achieve an equitable way in which to allocate and manage a region’s water resources that is consistent with the Council of Australian Government’s (COAG) Water reform…

Exploring future landscapes: a conceptual framework for planned change

This report details a conceptual framework that can help identify the underlying landscape-scale processes that drive natural-resource condition and the fundamental principles of strategic institutional responses.

Remnant native vegetation - perceptions and policies

Determining a Framework, Terms and Definitions for Water Use Efficiency in Irrigation

This report outlines the results of a consultancy to “Determine a Framework, Terms and Definitions for Water Use Efficiency in Irrigation”.

An issues paper was prepared in May, 1999 outlining the background, a simple framework, possible definitions for water use efficiency, examples of the most recent definitions of irrigation efficiencies and other issues considered relevant.

Establishing a standard approach

Until this project was initiated there was no generally accepted version of an Australian framework of terms and definitions for water use efficiency. As a result, people used different measures for water use efficiency e.g. one person could measure crop water use to describe water use efficiency while another could use irrigation water use. While the answers were correct as far as the particular measures are concerned, there was no way of actually comparing them because they were calculated using (more)...