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Industrial point sources
2016 , Report Content... to urban air quality at an airshed scale.
Industrial point sources
Industrial point sources
If not effectively controlled, emissions from industry can ...
Resilience
2016 At a glance... may be very difficult or impossible to reverse. The terms ‘tipping points’ and ‘boundaries’ are often used in relation to abrupt and irreversible changes. A tipping point can be regarded as an ecological threshold beyond which major change ...
Risks
2016 At a glance... can be increased by inertia or lack of timely action before tipping points are reached. For example, lack of timely action can occur when ... is approaching, or has reached, a boundary or tipping point. There is also a risk that efforts to improve policy and management will ...
Factors affecting resilience capacity
2016 Report Content... in Australia that they considered most vulnerable to tipping points ( Laurance et al. 2011 ): elevationally restricted mountain ... and mangroves. Key factors predisposing these ecosystems to tipping points include: having a restricted distribution or a narrow ...
Resilience of biodiversity 2016
2016 At a glance... Further work is required to understand thresholds before tipping points are reached beyond which irreversible changes to ecosystems ...
Box LAN7 Land management to reduce sediment and pollutant delivery to the Great Barrier Reef lagoon
2016 Case StudyThe Great Barrier Reef catchments drain an area of 423,134 square kilometres of coastal Queensland, consisting of 6 major catchments and 35 subcatchments, and covering 2300 kilometres from the southern tip to the northern extent (Figure LAN15). The predominant land use is grazing...
Managing biodiversity for resilience
2016 Report Content... finding ways to quantitatively measure it. The concept of tipping points and thresholds is often linked with the measurement of resilience . The tipping point is an ecological threshold beyond which major change becomes inevitable ...
Australian Antarctic Program’s station environment: Contaminated sites and pollution
2016 Report Content... additional 38 tonnes of soil were removed from the impact point using a portable vacuum suction unit driven with compressed air. A ...
Outlook for Australia’s climate 2016
2016 , At a glance... climate change and prevent catastrophic climate change tipping points, but will not return the climate system to its pre-industrial ... climate change and prevent catastrophic climate change tipping points. Mitigation will not return the climate system to its ...
Overview of challenges to effective management
2016 Report Content... information about ecological boundaries and potential ‘tipping points’. Haward M & Vince J (2008). Oceans governance in the ... The Australian Heritage Strategy provides a good starting point for the effective management of Australia’s heritage, and positions the ...
Availability of information
2016 Report Content... threatening processes and potential ecological thresholds or tipping points. The survey identified a lack of effective control of invasive ...
Resilience of inland water environments 2016
2016 At a glance... factors, especially regarding ecosystem thresholds and tipping points. Assessing or commenting on the resilience of inland water ...
Risks to Australia’s climate 2016
2016 , At a glance...
Unlikely
One or more climate change tipping points are passed, triggering abrupt, nonlinear and irreversible ...
No marine species have been removed from the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) threatened species list since 2011; 8 species and 1 ecological community have been added
2016 Key Finding... populations of humpback whales have increased to the point that their current listing could now be reconsidered. ...
Cumulative impacts and management of multiple uses
2016 Report Content... modelling provides clues to understanding ecological tipping points. Marine Ecology Progress Series 512:99–113. Hedge P, Molloy ...
Figure ATM23a Trends in extreme fire-weather days (annual 90th percentile of daily Forest Fire Danger Index values) at 38 climate reference sites
2016 , MapInteract with mapDownload as pngDownload dataset Note: Map trends are given in Forest Fire Danger Index (FFDI) points per decade. Larger circles represent larger trends. Filled circles represent trends that are statistically significant. Source: Bureau of Meteorology...
Effectiveness of marine management
2016, 2011 Assessment summary... M, Jacobson C & Morgan EA (2016). Marine governance to avoid tipping points: can we adapt the adaptability envelope?.
Marine Policy
, ... M, Jacobson C & Morgan EA (2016). Marine governance to avoid tipping points: can we adapt the adaptability envelope?.
Marine Policy
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Land use and management
2016 Report Content2016 Land State and trends North East Coast Great Barrier Reef Australia’s population is concentrated along the eastern, south-eastern and south-western coastal fringes...
State and trends of contaminated Antarctic sites
2016, 2011 Assessment summaryAntarctic environment State and trends Australian Antarctic Program’s station environment: Contaminated sites and pollutionAustralian Antarctic Program’s station environment: Operation indicators Antarctica...
Some pressures are increasing, with uncertain impacts on the marine environment
2016 Key Finding... marine animals and their environment. Sources of high point-source anthropogenic noise are spatially variable, but generally regarded ...
Australian Antarctic Territory
2016 Report Content2016 Antarctic environment Introduction Antarctica The AAT (Figure ANT1) comprises an area of approximately 5.9 million km2, and its coastline extends more than 11,200 kilometres (excluding...
Climate change pressures affecting the land environment
2016, 2011 Assessment summary... ( https://www.nccarf.edu.au/ ) provides a good starting point to engage with this developing literature. Some native vegetation ... ( https://www.nccarf.edu.au/ ) provides a good starting point to engage with this developing literature. Climate change will alter the ...
Box HER6 The Sirius Building—differing heritage perceptions
2016 Case Study... opposed wholesale redevelopment of The Rocks and Millers Point ( National Trust 2016 ). In August 2016, the New South Wales Minister for ... opposed wholesale redevelopment of The Rocks and Millers Point ( National Trust 2016 ). In August 2016, the New South Wales Minister for ...
Resilience of the Antarctic environment 2016
2016 At a glance... Wildlife Research 15:579–585. van den Hoff J (2009). Tipping back the balance: recolonization of the Macquarie Island isthmus by ...
Understanding and research
2016 , Report Content... ‘true background’ air—air that is uncontaminated by point sources—when the wind blows in to the south-west sector from across the ...
Box ATM5 Cape Grim: monitoring the health of the global atmosphere for 40 years
2016 , Case Study... ‘true background’ air—air that is uncontaminated by point sources—when the wind blows in to the south-west sector from across the ... ‘true background’ air—air that is uncontaminated by point sources—when the wind blows in to the south-west sector from across the ...
Approach
2016 Report Content... in grade and trends. As with SoE 2011, the reference point from which the assessment of grade and trends is measured in the long ... European settlement (approximately 1750). This reference point has been accepted as the basis for planning the National Reserve System ...
Overview of resilience of the atmosphere
2016 Report Content... restored to acceptable levels once localised emissions from point sources change, urban airsheds are considered to be highly resilient. ...
Box HER8 Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area fires in 2016
2016 Case Study... as well as the Arthur–Pieman Conservation Area and Sundown Point State Reserve. These fires occurred after one of the driest summers on ... as well as the Arthur–Pieman Conservation Area and Sundown Point State Reserve. These fires occurred after one of the driest summers on ...
Managing for resilience
2016 Report Content... 2005 , 2011b ). Ecosystem models are now at the development point where model comparisons (similar to those of the IPCC ’s Climate Model ...
