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Prospects for adoption of ecological risk assessment by the Australian irrigation industry

Report 1

Although Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) can provide a basis for making the vague tenets of sustainability operationally meaningful, the capacity for its adoption among irrigation industries and stakeholders is unproven. This report details insights in the adoption process afforded through delivery of nine ERA awareness workshops delivered in irrigation regions throughout Australia.

Using ERA to measure the effects of irrigation on river health in Ord Irrigation Area

Research Bulletin 3

This Research Bulletin describes the process of undertaking an extensive field sampling program, to understand if there has been a loss of biodiversity, and the risk of algal blooms.

Open Hydroponics: Risks and Opportunities

Open Hydroponics Ecological Risk Assessment

The purpose of this component of the research was to develop a method to identify likely ecological risks associated with Open Hydroponics (OH) in the Mallee region, using an ecological risk assessment approach. Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) is the process of defining and assessing the risks to ecological resources of anthropogenic hazards and determining the acceptability of those risks. The hazard(s) can be any chemical, physical or (more)...

Assessment of ecological risk associated with irrigation in the Fitzroy basin

Phase 2: Analysis and characterisation of risk with emphasis on effects on macroinvertebrates

This project in the Fitzroy catchment in Queensland was one of three case studies used to illustrate how ERA may be employed in the management of irrigation areas in Australia. In the problem formulation stage of the ERA process community stakeholders identified issues and helped to prioritise research needs for the second phase. These were that the research should focus on the irrigation area scale and the impact of the decline of water quality (more)...