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Landscape and soil

2016
Land
Resilience
Report Content

2016 Land Resilience Great Barrier Reef Under natural conditions, the land (i.e. landforms, soils, drainage networks of streams and rivers, vegetation and other biota) is in some sort of...

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Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Bushfire

2016
Land
Pressures
Report Content
Bushfires (wildfires) are uncontrolled fire in the landscape. These particularly affect natural or seminatural ... and have significant positive and negative effects on landscape and ecosystem processes. Because Australia is a ... over too large an area may kill off regeneration, reduce landscape diversity, change soil characteristics, increase ...
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Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Land clearing

2016
Land
Pressures
Report Content

2016 Land Pressures Land clearing represents a fundamental pressure on the land environment, causing the loss and fragmentation of native vegetation. Depending on subsequent management, land clearing can also lead to a...

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Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Invasive species

2016
Land
Pressures
Report Content

2016 Land Pressures South East Coast South West Coast North East Coast Tasmania Greater Brisbane...

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Regional and landscape-scale pressures affecting the land environment

2016, 2011
Land
Pressures
Assessment summary

Land Pressures Regional and landscape-scale pressures: BushfireRegional and landscape-scale pressures: Invasive speciesRegional and landscape-scale pressures: Land clearingClimate change–induced pressuresContemporary land-use...

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Soil and water management is crucial for a productive landscape

2016
Land
Key Finding

2016  Land management practices are improving, particularly in relation to soil management and soil conservation measures. Pesticide and nutrient run-off is also being significantly reduced in some industries, although increasing in others.  

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Box HER12 Rocla Quarry, Calga, New South Wales

2016
Heritage
Pressures
Case Study
... in the project area and the wider Aboriginal cultural landscape . The court did not accept the proponent’s ... of the ‘Women’s Site’ as part of the wider cultural landscape ( NSW LEC 2015 ). The decision is a rare example ... values prevailed over economic concerns and proposed landscape -scale resource extraction. ...
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Box HER11 Great Eastern Ranges Initiative

2016
Heritage
Pressures
Case Study
... conservation of our natural heritage, seeking to promote landscape -wide connectivity and high-priority biodiversity ...
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Vegetation

2016
Land
Resilience
Report Content
... resilience in landscapes and soils, as discussed in the Landscape and soil section. Maintenance of vegetation is both ...
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Pressures from livestock production

2016
Biodiversity
Pressures
Report Content

2016 Biodiversity Pressures Livestock production is the dominant land use in the extensive land-use zone of Australia (see the Land report for further information). It is considered a major contributing factor to the...

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Box HER31 Innovative management of local heritage—the City of Ballarat

2016
Heritage
Effectiveness of management
Case Study
... of Ballarat’s development, set within a historic urban landscape and protected using the ‘heritage overlay’ ... to implement the Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific ... communities play in protecting and enhancing the urban landscape . The City of Ballarat recognises that the ...
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Pressures on Indigenous heritage

2016
Heritage
Pressures
Report Content

2016 Heritage Pressures Tasmania Timor Sea Greater Sydney There is a recognised gap between Indigenous Australians and the wider Australian...

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State and trends of soil acidification

2016, 2011
Land
State and trends
Assessment summary

Land State and trends Soil: Salinity and acidification Year...

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Pressures on the environment can interact and accumulate in various ways

2016
Pressures
Report Content

2016 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...

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Box HER15 The City of Broken Hill—a National Heritage place

2016
Heritage
State and trends
Case Study
... its mining significance and exploring the natural outback landscape values. Source: Liz Vines, Heritage Adviser, City ...
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Factors affecting resilience capacity

2016
Biodiversity
Resilience
Report Content
... (these are described in more detail in SoE 2011). At the landscape level, the amount of intact habitat, connectivity, and variation (or heterogeneity) in the landscape are important properties affecting resilience ( ...
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Interactions among pressures

2016
Biodiversity
Pressures
Report Content

2016 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...

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State and trends of soil carbon

2016, 2011
Land
State and trends
Assessment summary

Land State and trends Soil: Carbon dynamics Year...

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Box BLT4 Adelaide suburban land-use change

2016
Built environment
State and trends
Case Study

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics Land account: South Australia, experimental estimates, 2006–11 (ABS 2015d), the area of residential land in the Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges area showed the largest land-use increase between 2006 and 2011 (4300 hectares),...

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Land pressures - At a glance

2016
Land
Pressures
At a glance

At a glanceWhile changing climates have shaped the Australian landscape and its vegetation, the current rate of climate change is likely to result in changes to the distribution and composition of vegetation communities. Some communities are likely to disappear, others will be transformed as...

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Introduction 2016

2016
Heritage
Introduction
At a glance

Heritage is all the things that make up Australia’s identity—our spirit and ingenuity, our historic buildings, and our unique, living landscapes. Our heritage is a legacy from our past, a living, integral part of life today, and the stories and places we pass on to future generations.(DoEE n...

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Box LAN3 Bees—pressures and impacts

2016
Land
Pressures
Case Study
... done by wild pollinators and so is similarly dependent on landscape context; however, agricultural pollination is ...
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Pressures on natural heritage

2016
Heritage
Pressures
Report Content

2016 Heritage Pressures Lake Eyre Our terrestrial and marine natural heritage is susceptible to the general pressures arising from climate change outlined above, as well as some of the...

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Managing biodiversity for resilience

2016
Biodiversity
Resilience
Report Content

2016 Biodiversity Resilience The ability of ecosystems to tolerate and recover from disturbance is a phenomenon that is vitally important to understand. Resilience has stimulated much valuable research that has...

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Box HER38 Sustainable innovative urban design and Aboriginal heritage, East Leppington

2016
Heritage
Effectiveness of management
Case Study
... connected with the local and regional Aboriginal cultural landscape ( Owen 2015b ). The resulting mapping of cultural values identified a cultural landscape , with specific places, walking routes, view ... showcase proactive cultural heritage conservation at a landscape scale, responding to emerging innovation challenges ...
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Pressures affecting the land environment 2016

2016
Land
Pressures
At a glance

At a glanceAlthough a changing climate has shaped the Australian landscape and its vegetation, the current rate of climate change is likely to result in changes in the distribution and composition of vegetation communities. Some communities are likely to disappear, and others will be...

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Resilience of the land environment 2016

2016
Land
Resilience
At a glance

At a glanceAustralian landscapes have evolved with soils and vegetation in equilibrium with the climate and natural disturbance regime. Land management activities disturb that equilibrium. Although we may not see all of the ensuing changes, the subtle and slowly accumulating ones can be the...

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Soil: Understanding

2016
Land
State and trends
Report Content

2016 Land State and trends South Australian Gulf Tasmania Understanding the current state and condition of Australian soils requires an appreciation of their diversity...

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Figure LAN6a Continental pattern of Australia’s forest cover change

2016
Land
Pressures
Map

Interact with mapDownload as pngDownload dataset Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Land clearing

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Figure LAN6b Continental pattern of Australia’s forest cover change

2016
Land
Pressures
Map

Interact with mapDownload as pngDownload dataset Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Land clearing

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