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Resilience of the coastal environment 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceResilience of the coastal environment includes its resistance to change and its ability to recover once disturbed. Resistance to change is linked to the maintenance of high biodiversity, which is expected to provide greater redundancy in ecological functions. Resistance can also...
Approach - Land 2016
2016 Report Content...
The 2016 Land report has been informed by extensive feedback on drafts from Australian, state and territory agency staff, and ...
Pressures on the environment can interact and accumulate in various ways
2016 Report Content2016 Pressures The interactions between pressures can result in cumulative impacts, amplifying the threat faced by the Australian environment. There is increasing evidence that pressures interact in complex ways. For example, land clearing removes...
Resilience of Australia’s heritage 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceThe resilience of Australia’s heritage can be considered in relation to both individual heritage places and the total heritage resource. The ability of individual places or wider resources to withstand shocks depends on the nature of specific heritage values and their...
Interactions among pressures
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Pressures Few of the pressures documented in this section occur in isolation. Rather, pressures interact in complex ways, often compounding the threat to biodiversity. For example, land clearing...
Box HER16 Tasmanian Heritage Register Integrity Project
2016 Case Study... information and contribute to the review process. However, feedback from most affected owners has been positive, and targeted ...
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...
Resilience of the Antarctic environment 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceAlthough organisms living in Antarctica have evolved to cope with severe events, it is challenging to measure their level of resilience and to predict how future climate change will affect Antarctic ecosystems. This is largely because our understanding of key parameters is still...
Box MAR9 Supporting the traditional management of dugongs and marine turtles in Torres Strait
2016 Case Study... at a regional level
Participation in, and provision of feedback to, the Torres Strait Protected Zone Joint Authority
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Key gaps in evaluating the marine environment
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Outlook This report has highlighted a number of key gaps in our current ability to assess the state of the Australian marine environment. In this section, we summarise these key gaps and...
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...
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...
Policies, tools and approaches that are potentially changing the outlook
2016 Report Content2016 Outlook The outlook described above has both positive and negative components, although the negative tends to dominate. This balance can potentially shift, by using a variety of policies, tools, approaches and resources that are being developed...
Land–water interface
2016 Report Content2016 Coasts Pressures South West Coast South Australian Gulf Greater Adelaide Great Barrier Reef Greater Melbourne...
Biodiversity: Threatened species
2016 Report Content2016 Coasts State and trends South West Coast North East Coast Tasmania Greater Brisbane Greater Darwin...
Biodiversity: Habitat-forming species
2016 Report Content2016 Coasts State and trends South West Coast South Australian Gulf North East Coast Tasmania Greater Darwin...
Biodiversity: Ecological processes
2016 Report Content2016 Coasts State and trends Tasmania Greater Brisbane Great Barrier Reef East Coast Connectivity Connectivity among...
Identification: Listing Jurisdictions
2016 Report Content2016 Heritage State and trends South Coast Murray Darling North East Coast Tasmania Timor Sea...
The physical environment: The cryosphere
2016 Report Content2016 Antarctic environment State and trends Antarctica The physical environment includes both the nonliving factors that characterise an ecosystem (e.g. weather patterns, ice coverage, the...
Climate change
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Pressures Tasmania Marine South West Great Barrier Reef East Coast Marine South East...
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...
Biodiversity: Species groups
2016 Report Content2016 Coasts State and trends South East Coast Murray Darling North East Coast Tasmania Timor Sea...
2011 Report graph - Figure 3.16 Pathways by which climate change affects human health, including local modulating influences and the feedback influence of adaptation measures
2011 Graph... human health, including local modulating influences and the feedback influence of adaptation measures ...
8 Biodiversity | 5 Resilience of biodiversity
2011 At a glanceAt a glanceMany of the processes being implemented by jurisdictions around Australia have the potential to build and maintain resilience of the coupled social–ecological systems that involve biodiversity and people. However, there are indications that approaches to addressing pressures are...
1 Approach | 3 Reading each chapter | 3.4 Resilience
2011 Report Content2011 What is the capacity of the environment to retain or recover essentially the same structure and functions when it experiences shocks or disturbances? After assessments of state, pressure and management, the condition of environmental and cultural systems is revisited in...
Large step-changes in climate may occur.
2011 Key Finding2011Smooth changes are the exception rather than the norm in the global climate system, which is nonlinear in nature. This means that a number of feedback mechanisms exist that can amplify or accelerate climate change and have the potential to cause large step-changes (sudden or major...
Factors affecting potential capacity to deal with surprises
2011 Report Content2011 Biodiversity Resilience South East Coast Murray Darling General resilience is resilience to a wide range of pressures, many of which might be unknown and likely to...
Indirect (secondary and tertiary) effects of pressures on climate
2011 Report Content2011 Climate Pressures Direct effects on climate, such as those outlined in Section 2.2.3, trigger indirect effects further down a complex chain of cause and effect. These are products of the profound and pervasive...
1 Approach | 1 State of the Environment 2011 | 1.4 Quality Assurance
2011 Report Content... reviewers and responses from the SoE 2011 Committee on how feedback was incorporated into improving the chapters are available on the SoE ...
9 Heritage | 5 Resilience of heritage
2011 At a glanceAt a glanceAustralia's heritage is a highly valued but fragile resource that is susceptible to changes brought about by external shocks. The resilience of Australia's heritage can be considered in relation to both individual heritage places and the total heritage resource. The ability of...
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