Land Management

The carbon cycle and land management

The carbon in living organisms and in the products derived from them has been absorbed from the atmosphere. It is returned to the atmosphere by a number of processes that occur over different time periods. We call this the carbon cycle (Figure 1). The atmosphere, the oceans, the Earth’s crust and its living organisms (the biosphere) are major reservoirs of carbon. These reservoirs are sometimes called carbon stores or carbon sinks. The complex (more)...

Indicator protocols: extent of active management

This document presents the recommended monitoring protocol for collecting, collating and reporting information on the extent of active management for national, state/territory and regional application.

Socio-economic indicator protocols

The Workplan aims to identify socio-economic indicators to assess the:

• capacity of landmanagers to change and adopt sustainable management practices
• capacity of regional organisations to make decisions on NRM issues and
  

Land Tenure. Final Project Report

This project was initiated by the National Land and Water Resource Audit (NLWRA) with the intention of creating a Land Tenure data set with Australia wide coverage. There are several existing Tenure data sets but they are outdated or of a low resolution. The idea was to utilise the tenure data from the States and Territories in Australia and translate their data to a nationally agreed classification. To define this classification a workshop was held in Canberra in (more)...

Land use: status of information for reporting 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 (more)...

Social and Economic Indicators for NRM

Increasing Access to Social and Economic Data for Natural Resource Management

The potential to map the adaptive capacity of Australian land managers for NRM policy using ABS data

Resilience, vulnerability and adaptive capacity are terms increasingly used in rural policy, but rarely defined or converted into practical measures that support policy design and implementation. Adaptive capacity measures based on rural livelihoods analysis have been developed and trialled using ABARE data for broadacre industries. This paper provides a preliminary assessment of the potential to expand the application to all agricultural industries and to broaden the range of (more)...

Capacity of landmanagers to adopt sustainable management practices

The Natural Heritage Ministerial Board has tasked the NLWRA (2003-08) with coordinating the collation of data to support reporting on natural resource condition under the National Natural Resource Management Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (NM&EF). As described in the NM&EF “the health of the nation’s natural resources is being assessed to provide a (more)...

Triple bottom line indicators for a Victorian catchment management authority

This report describes the TBL Indicators for a Victorian Catchment project which trialled the application of the MA Framework for the NECMA through the twelve TBL indicators. Also discussed is the applicability of the MA Framework approach to other monitoring, evaluation and reporting processes undertaken by Federal, state, and regional agencies as well as for priority (more)...