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Figure LAN29 Vegetation assets, states and transitions (VAST) classification of Australian vegetation

2016
Land
State and trends
Map

Interact with mapDownload as pngDownload dataset Source: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, National Scale Vegetation Assets, States and Transitions 2008, used underCC BY 3.0   Figure LAN29 Vegetation assets, states and transitions (VAST...

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Vegetation

2016
Land
State and trends
Report Content
Forests and woodlands together represent about 16 per cent of the ... in New South Wales, 15 per cent in Western Australia and 12 per cent in the Northern Territory ( ABARES 2014 ). ... ( DoE 2014c ). The continental extent of all forms of vegetation is summarised in Table LAN5 and mapped in ...
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Figure LAN30b Extent of modification of major vegetation groups, as assessed by vegetation assets, states and transitions (VAST) where (a) shows the percentage of modification; and (b) shows the extent of major vegetation groups, pre-1750

2016
Land
State and trends
Graph
(b) extent of major vegetation groups, pre-1750 ...
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Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Land clearing

2016
Land
Pressures
Report Content
... pressure on the land environment, causing the loss and  fragmentation  of native vegetation. Depending on subsequent management, land clearing ... of nutrients. In addition to the negative impact on native vegetation and soil quality, historical land clearing and ...
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Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Bushfire

2016
Land
Pressures
Report Content
... These particularly affect natural or seminatural vegetation, and have significant positive and negative effects on ... vital contributor to natural processes, and because many vegetation types encourage bushfires—with highly flammable ...
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Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Invasive species

2016
Land
Pressures
Report Content
... species  represent one of the most potent, persistent and widespread threats to the Australian environment. They ... impact on  species  through predation, displacement and competition, and also have enormous detrimental effects on the health, ...
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Landscape and soil

2016
Land
Resilience
Report Content
... land (i.e. landforms, soils, drainage networks of streams and rivers, vegetation and other biota) is in some sort of equilibrium with the ...
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State and trends of vegetation

2016, 2011
Land
State and trends
Assessment summary

Land State and trends Vegetation Year...

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Coastal governance and management

2016
Coasts
Effectiveness of management
Report Content
... of government. Most management is done by local councils and state governments, and for most issues, levels of government are not coordinated ... of management should match the scales at which pressures and processes operate. Many of the pressures affecting the ...
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Effectiveness of management for specific pressures and drivers

2016
Effectiveness of management
Report Content
Earlier, we noted that the complex and dynamic relationships between drivers, pressures, ecosystems and humans call for policies and management actions that address both drivers and ...
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Management framework

2016
Ambient air quality
Effectiveness of management
Report Content
Each level of government—Australian, state and territory, and local—plays a role in managing the impacts of air ... For the key air quality standards, the Australian, state and territory governments act cooperatively to set national ...
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Integrated coastal management frameworks

2016
Coasts
Effectiveness of management
Report Content
... (ICZM) is the process for managing all coastal issues in a framework integrated across biota and habitats, time and space, and levels of government. It attempts to consider ...
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Executive Summary - Marine environment

2016
Marine environment
Executive Summary

Marine environment 2016Australia’s marine environment is the world’s third largest marine jurisdiction, at 13.86 million square kilometres. It is home to a diverse array of marine species, many of which occur nowhere else in the world. Our oceans also...

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Terrestrial ecosystems and communities

2016
Biodiversity
State and trends
Report Content
... based on common climate, geology, landform, native vegetation and species information. The 89   bioregions are further ... report to document the distribution of threatened species and communities and, in Effectiveness of biodiversity ...
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Overview of state and trends of heritage

2016
Heritage
State and trends
Report Content
Australia’s extraordinary and diverse natural and cultural heritage generally remains in good condition, despite some deterioration and emerging challenges. ...
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Risk-based methods for prioritising management

2016
Coasts
Effectiveness of management
Report Content
... assets are matched to the threats imposed by human use and, from this, the risks associated with various management ... Authority of New South Wales ( Jordan et al. 2016 ) and the Queensland Government ( Brodie 2013 ). If successful, ...
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Management context

2016
Land
Effectiveness of management
Report Content
... relatively stable, despite flux in the names, structures and specific responsibilities of the government departments and agencies that oversee management. Similarly, although private and Indigenous landowners may be subject to varying levels of ...
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State and trends of biodiversity

2016, 2011
Biodiversity
State and trends
Assessment summary

Biodiversity State and trends Coastal and marine species and ecosystemsFreshwater species and ecosystemsTerrestrial plant and animal species: Threatened species listsTerrestrial ecosystems and communitiesGenetic and species...

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Livability: Air and water quality

2016
Built environment
State and trends
Report Content
... built environment: urban amenity; housing; transport; air and water quality; access to the natural environment; and heritage, social and aesthetic aspects. ...
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Overview of challenges to effective management

2016
Effectiveness of management
Report Content
... SoE reports have highlighted consistent problems and trends for the Australian environment. ...
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Resources and capacity for management

2016
Land
Effectiveness of management
Report Content
... in management of the land environment includes financial and in-kind commitments by all levels of government, private landowners and businesses, philanthropic and other nongovernment organisations, Indigenous Australians ...
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Land use and management

2016
Land
State and trends
Report Content
... is concentrated along the eastern, south-eastern and south-western coastal fringes. To many living in these ... the daily experience is one of dense urban, industrial and residential zones, fringed by intensive horticulture and ... use, in terms of extent, is livestock grazing of native vegetation (44.9 per cent); grazing of modified pastures ...
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Overview of resilience of the built environment

2016
Built environment
Resilience
Report Content
Because climate-related and weather-related risks have always been present, governments and private parties have fairly well established institutional, governance and policy frameworks to build resilience in our built ...
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Box BIO15 A common assessment method for threatened species and ecological communities

2016
Biodiversity
Effectiveness of management
Case Study
Australian, state and territory governments currently maintain separate lists of threatened species , and some maintain lists of threatened ecological communities. ... categories in legislation. The Australian Government, and states and territories are working together to develop a ...
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State and trends of biodiversity 2016

2016
Biodiversity
State and trends
At a glance

At a glanceUnderstanding of the state and trends of the vast majority of individual species in Australia is limited. The lack of effective monitoring data for understanding state and trends, even for threatened species, is highlighted by every jurisdiction and all previous state of the...

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Overview of state and trends of biodiversity

2016
Biodiversity
State and trends
Report Content
... information is available for the vast majority of taxa, and few long-term monitoring programs are in place. The lack of data is pronounced for plants, amphibians and reptiles, and even more so for taxa such as freshwater fish, ...
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Residual risks to the marine environment

2016
Marine environment
Risks
At a glance

At a glanceAvoidance and mitigation measures, which are the primary strategies for managing impacts of activities on the marine environment, may not address all impacts associated with the activities. Management may be absent or only partially effective, there may be some impacts that are...

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Policies, tools and approaches that are potentially changing the outlook

2016
Outlook
Report Content
The outlook described above has both positive and negative components, although the negative tends to ...
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Commercial and recreational fishing

2016
Marine environment
Pressures
Report Content
... commercial wild-caught marine fisheries are highly diverse and contribute significantly to the economy. Scallops; ... prawns; crabs; squid; coastal fish, such as whiting and flathead; reef fish, such as coral trout; shelf and deep-water fish, such as sardines, ling and blue-eye ...
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State and trends of habitats and communities

2016, 2011
Marine environment
State and trends
Assessment summary

The title of this assessment summary has changed from 2011. State and trends of quality of habitats for species Marine environment State and trends...

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