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Regional Natural Resource Management: A Stocktake of Land & Water Australia’s Investments

Regional Natural Resource Management (NRM) is defined as research that focuses on Australia’s designated network of regional NRM organisations as its primary target audience or subject matter. There are several companion stocktakes examining other themes, such as research related to Indigenous peoples and adaptive agriculture.

Gulf of Carpentaria field validation

As part of the developmental phase of the Tropical Rivers and Coastal Knowledge (TRaCK) Program this project was instigated to undertake a reconnaissance of all rivers draining into the Gulf of Carpentaria, as well as collecting baseline data and undertaking regional stakeholder consultation.

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Alternative Landscape Futures

A model for minimizing the impacts of pesticides on the riverine environment

Alternative Landscape Futures (ALF) analysis is a long-term, large area, land and environment assessment approach for assisting communities and policy makers make decisions about planning the future of that area. It provides a spatially explicit, regional scale perspective on the combined effects of the multiple policies, plans, population and land use pressures affecting the availability of natural resources and ecosystem services for a geographic area. The (more)...

Quantifying costs and benefits of buffel grass

Full Report

Buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) is an introduced pasture grass of significant commercial value but which also presents a major threat to conservation values in the rangelands. This report integrates the outcomes of regional workshops with institutional…

Investigating lake/groundwater interactions at Lake Tutchewop

Salinity is an on-going environmental concern that causes damage to agricultural land, downstream water users, aquatic ecosystems and biodiversity, as well as to regional and urban infrastructure. One strategy to manage increasing salinity in the Murray Darling Basin is the construction of 13 major salt interception schemes that divert 550,000 tonnes of salt away from the Murray River each year (Figure 1). The Barr Creek Drainage Disposal Scheme is one of these schemes diverting saline water into (more)...

Final Report 3 – Perspectives of future irrigation

This document was developed by the Irrigation Futures project team as a contribution to Goulburn-Murray Water’s irrigation reconfiguration processes. It has been included as a chapter in the Shepparton Regional Atlas as a part of Goulburn-Murray Water’s Strategic View of Assets and Service Needs. This document summarises the scenarios and their implications for irrigation infrastructure planning.

Final Report 2 – Regional scenario planningin practice: Irrigation futures of theGoulburn Broken Region

Scenario planning is an approach to strategic planning. It acknowledges the uncertainties and ambiguities of the future and seeks to identify ways to strengthen the strategic position of an organisation in that uncertain environment. Van der Heijden (1996) identifies that good strategic planning should be based on four common-sense elements: understanding of the aims and purpose of the entity; an assessment of the organisation’s characteristics, including its (more)...

Trialing a framework and indicators for wetland extent, distribution and condition at the regional level

The logoons of the outer Darwin area, NT - Final milestone report

The project presented in this Final Milestone Report is part of the National Wetland Indicators Project regional trials, trialing the National framework and indicators for wetland extent, distribution and condition on the lagoons in the Darwin region. Indicator Themes 1-5 (catchment disturbance, physical disturbance, hydrological disturbance and the fringing zone) were reported on in detail in Milestone Report 2 for all of the lagoons in the (more)...

The lagoons of the outer Darwin area, NT. Milestone 2 report

Trialling a framework and indicators for wetland extent, distribution and condition at the Regional level – Milestone report 2

The project presented in this Milestone Report 2 is part of the National Wetland Indicators Project regional trials, trialing the National framework and indicators for wetland extent, distribution and condition on the lagoons in the Darwin region. The extent and distribution component of the lagoons in the Darwin region is now completed and presented as mapping based on Quickbird Imagery. Wetland condition indicators were selected on the basis of data availability for the nationally (more)...

The lagoons of the outer Darwin area, NT. Milestone 1 report

Trialling a framework and indicators for wetland extent, distribution and condition at the Regional level – Milestone report 1

The project presented in this report trials the framework and indicators for wetland extent, distribution and condition on the lagoons in the Darwin region. The extent and distribution of the lagoons in the Darwin region is presented as mapping based on Quickbird Imagery. As the mapping process took more time than anticipated, the final mapping of all lagoons in the study area will be presented in the Final Milestone Report. This report presents the extent and distribution of 31 (more)...