Landscapes

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)...

Enhancing and utilising landscape heterogeneity to meet multiple land use objectives

The broad aim of the project was to provide land managers with information that will encourage them to further value, protect and enhance vegetation diversity by demonstrating the practical benefits that can be derived from this natural asset in Australian rangelands. Vegetation diversity and local climate influences combine to produce differences between regions in the patterns of plant growth from year to year, such that the timing of droughts and favourable years can vary between regions. We set out (more)...

Developing institutional arrangements of Indigenous participation in the National Water Initiative

This Final Milestone Report and attached fact sheets have been prepared by the North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance (NAILSMA) for endorsement by Land & Water Australia (LWA).

Land & Water Australia Annual Report 2008 - 2009

Climate change and the Australian horticulture industry

Indicator for Site-Based Erosion Assessment Using a Mixture of Field Data and Modelling

 This document reports on the Wind Erosion Assessment Model (WEAM) for field-based wind erosion risk assessment. The objective was to assess if WEAM could be used by regional Natural Resource Management (NRM) bodies to assess erosion levels of different land management practices on different (more)...

Carbon Uptake and Water Use of Vegetation Under Climate Change

Accumulation and storage of carbon in trees is one method of sequestration which may help offset increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations. However, for every molecule of CO2 absorbed by a leaf, up to a thousand molecules of water are released as transpiration, water that has moved out of the soil into the atmosphere. Therefore, simply planting more trees to absorb more CO2 is not as risk-free as may originally be thought, (more)...

Sustainable Northern Landscapes and the Nexus with Indigenous Health: Healthy Country, Healthy People

This fact sheet is a summary of the Final Report for Project NTU 7.

Climate change impacts on Australia’s rangeland livestock carrying capacity: A review of challenges

This report reviews the current state of knowledge in terms of assessing the impacts of climate change on livestock carrying capacity (LCC) in Australian rangelands, particularly concentrating on northern Australia. The report is based on two previous publications (McKeon 2006, McKeon et al. 2009) and documents the importance of livestock carrying capacity as a driver of rangeland productivity and resource condition. We reviewed calculation procedures using climate (more)...