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Australia's real gross value added, by industry, 2015
2016 GraphAustralia's real gross value added by industry, 2015 Australia's real gross value added by industry, 2015 Percentage of total gross value Financial and insurance services9.469913306 Mining 9.539767707 Construction8.26996709 Health care and...
Overview of effectiveness of management of biodiversity
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Effectiveness of management A key policy initiative for threatened species management since 2011 has been the development of the Threatened Species Strategy (DoE 2015b). Currently, 20 mammals and 20 ...
Australia’s water use
2016 Report Content2016 Inland water Introduction Murray Darling Rainfall and run-off amounts vary widely from year to year and place to place, and we have a water management infrastructure with an accessible...
Water resource development
2016 Report Content2016 Inland water Pressures Murray Darling Tasmania Greater Brisbane Greater Darwin Greater Hobart...
Recent national assessments of management performance
2016 Report Content2016 Inland water Effectiveness of management The National Water Initiative has set the water policy reform agenda for the past decade, following on from the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Water Reform...
Figure MAR14 Wells drilled by the oil and gas industry in the marine environment, 2001–15
2016 MapDownload as pngDownload dataset Source: National Environmental Science Programme Marine Biodiversity Hub Figure MAR14 Wells drilled by the oil and gas industry in the marine environment, 2001–15 Marine oil and gas exploration and production
Outlook for biodiversity 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceIt seems unlikely, given the current overall poor status and deteriorating trends in biodiversity and the high impact of increasing pressures, that overall biodiversity outcomes will improve in the short or medium term. Our current investments in biodiversity management are not...
Importance of biodiversity
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Introduction Tasmania Great Barrier Reef Biodiversity is important to humans for many reasons. Biodiversity is also considered by many to have...
Global climate change and climate variability
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Pressures Tasmania All recent state and territory SoE reports note the adverse effects of global climate change on biodiversity. These increasingly include extreme weather, as...
Consumption and extraction of natural resources
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Pressures Murray Darling Tasmania Harvesting of species The impact of harvesting is considered a potential threat to 30 per cent of listed threatened...
Pest species and pathogens
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Pressures Murray Darling Tasmania Australian Capital Territory Pest plants, pest animals and pathogens have been identified by...
Pressures facing aquatic ecosystems
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Pressures In this report, we describe pressures facing biodiversity in general. However, pressures facing aquatic ecosystems are described in detail in the Coasts (coastal and estuarine ecosystems),...
Management initiatives and investments
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Effectiveness of management Biodiversity funding NRM funding provides key measures that include many practical elements of protecting and sustainably managing biodiversity. For the past 30 years, the...
Management status
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Effectiveness of management Murray Darling Tasmania National Reserve System and National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas Australia has...
New technologies, solutions and innovations
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Effectiveness of management Improved tools and technical advances are becoming more available, sophisticated and cost-effective for biodiversity assessment, monitoring and management (see Box BIO20)....
Escalation of existing pressures
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Risks It is inevitable that the impact of climate change will continue to increase, given current trajectories (see the Drivers and Atmosphere reports). The interaction of climate change with other...
Effectiveness of marine management 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceThe diversity of anthropogenic pressures on marine habitats and communities by different industries and sectors is a challenge for managers. Some pressures are increasing, others have declined following implementation of management frameworks, and new pressures and new sectors are...
Outlook for the marine environment 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceThe contribution of the marine environment to the economy is projected to continue to grow 3 times faster than Australia’s gross domestic product in the next decade. It is in Australia’s interest that our ocean ecosystems continue to bring economic, cultural and social benefits...
Drivers influencing the marine environment
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Introduction Drivers influencing the Australian environment are covered in detail in the Drivers report, and readers are encouraged to refer to that report. We briefly summarise the drivers...
Marine environment: 2011–16 in context
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Introduction Tasmania Marine Temperate East Marine South West Great Barrier Reef East Coast...
Commercial and recreational fishing
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Pressures Tasmania Marine Temperate East Great Barrier Reef Marine South East Indian Ocean...
Traditional use of marine resources
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Pressures Marine North Traditional use of marine resources is defined here as activities (fishing, collecting, hunting and gathering) by the 2 Indigenous or traditional...
Marine oil and gas exploration and production
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Pressures Marine Temperate East Marine South West Marine North Marine North West Marine South...
Marine mining and industry
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Pressures A wide variety of mineral resources exist within Australia’s maritime jurisdiction (Table MAR3). Mining of these resources, however, remains an emerging industry (AIMS 2014). As a...
Marine renewable energy generation
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Pressures The marine renewable energy industry is an emerging industry globally. Ocean energy technologies and devices (e.g. offshore wind farms, wave energy generators) are being developed...
Marine vessel activity
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Pressures Great Barrier Reef International vessels International vessels operating in Australian waters mainly comprise large cargo carriers, but may also include...
Environment protection systems
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Effectiveness of management Tasmania Marine Temperate East Marine South West Great Barrier Reef...
Sustainability and sector management
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Effectiveness of management Tasmania Great Barrier Reef Managing for externalities Climate variability and longer-term change Australia is a...
Cumulative impacts and management of multiple uses
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Effectiveness of management Great Barrier Reef Ecosystem-based management aims to balance human activities with environmental stewardship to maintain ecosystem...
Ecosystem restoration
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Outlook Tasmania Marine ecosystems and their attributes, including species composition, ecosystem functions and resilience, are constantly changing. These changes can be...
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