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Box WAT1 Tasmanian irrigation: market-driven irrigation development

2016
Inland water
Introduction
Case Study
... that irrigation can add significant value in supplementing water supply and supporting investment in higher-value crops. ... whereby TI works with landholders to work out how much water is wanted and then shares the cost of building a scheme ... which were funded under the Australian Government’s Water for the Future initiative and by the Tasmanian ...
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Inland water: 2011–16 in context

2016
Inland water
Introduction
Report Content

2016 Inland water Introduction Murray Darling Tasmania The past 5 years opened with widespread heavy rainfall and extensive flooding in Queensland, New South Wales and...

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Effectiveness of inland water management 2016

2016
Inland water
Effectiveness of management
At a glance

At a glanceThe National Water Initiative has driven water policy, planning and management reforms in Australia for the past decade, which have delivered significant benefits for all Australians. It is critical that there should be no backsliding from reform principles. During a similar or...

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Australia’s water use

2016
Inland water
Introduction
Report Content
... widely from year to year and place to place, and we have a water management infrastructure with an accessible capacity ... of more than 80,000  GL to assist in redistributing water across time and space. States and territories have a strong and direct role in managing water resources for both consumptive and environmental ...
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Responsibility for the National Water Initiative has been disaggregated, and reform impetus has decreased

2016
Inland water
Key Finding

2016  The National Water Initiative is Australia’s national blueprint for water reform. It is a national agreement that represents a shared appreciation of the need to implement a strategic framework to achieve an efficient and sustainable water industry. During the past 5 years, impetus...

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Executive Summary - Inland water

2016
Inland water
Executive Summary

Inland water 2016Australia’s inland waters, both above and below the ground, are of considerable ecological significance. Their significance arises from both their intrinsic ecological values and the contribution they make in providing water to our communities...

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Water management in Australia

2016
Inland water
Effectiveness of management
Report Content
... and expanding knowledge of the relationships between water management actions and ecological condition that are ...
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Land and water use and management

2016
Inland water
Risks
Report Content
... management arise mainly through potential hydrological and water quality changes, whereas those from water management relate to changes in the timing and nature ...
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Policies, tools and approaches that are potentially changing the outlook

2016
Outlook
Report Content

2016 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...

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Effectiveness of management

2016
Effectiveness of management
At a glance

SoE 2016 considers the effectiveness of management of Australia’s environment from a national perspective. For a number of reasons, including a lack of nationally aggregated data, it does not assess the outcomes achieved from individual policies and programs, or from management at the state...

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Effectiveness of management 2016

2016
Climate
Effectiveness of management
At a glance

At a glanceClimate change is a global problem that will require coordinated international action by all countries. The Paris Agreement, to which 195 countries (including Australia) have agreed, aims to hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-...

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Box HER42 Western Australian Goldfields Water Supply Scheme—conserving and interpreting a National Heritage place

2016
Heritage
Effectiveness of management
Case Study
The Goldfields Water Supply Scheme—which runs for 560 kilometres in ... objectives: to conserve and interpret the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme: and to bring tangible benefits to the ... continues to deliver on these original objectives, as the water supply scheme, albeit updated, still supplies water to ...
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Recent national assessments of management performance

2016
Inland water
Effectiveness of management
Report Content
The National Water Initiative has set the water policy reform agenda for the past decade, following on ... Water Initiative activities such as a National Water Market System and various national frameworks have either ...
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Water flows and levels

2016
Inland water
State and trends
Report Content
... use and management. There are also significant areas where water management interventions affect the flows in ways that ... to the aquatic environment. Furthermore, the surface-water system and the broader landscape influence subsurface ...
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Human capital

2016
Land
Effectiveness of management
Report Content

2016 Land Effectiveness of management Timor Sea East Coast Although positive developments in resourcing, evidence-based policy-making and management effectiveness are...

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Coastal waters

2016
Coasts
Pressures
Report Content

2016 Coasts Pressures South Australian Gulf Murray Darling North East Coast Tasmania Timor Sea...

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Role and coordination of different levels of government

2016
Climate
Effectiveness of management
Report Content
... government services, and creating the institutional, market and regulatory environment that supports and promotes ...
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Outlook under an 'improved future' scenario

2016
Outlook
Report Content

2016 Outlook An ‘improved future’ scenario for Australia’s environment would see innovation in policy, technical and associated management approaches to: halt and reverse the decline in the environment, and the ecological processes that maintain...

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Risks to biodiversity 2016

2016
Biodiversity
Risks
At a glance

At a glanceEscalation of existing risks such as invasive species, climate change and changing fire regimes, and the interactions between these risks, will continue to exert significant and widespread changes on biodiversity. The importance of some risks, or at least the perception of those...

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Importance of biodiversity

2016
Biodiversity
Introduction
Report Content

2016 Biodiversity Introduction Tasmania Great Barrier Reef Biodiversity is important to humans for many reasons. Biodiversity is also considered by many to have...

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Planning and strategy

2016
Climate
Effectiveness of management
Report Content

2016 Climate Effectiveness of management South Coast An important role of government is to develop effective policies, implemented through supporting strategies and plans. Emissions...

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Economic activity as a driver of environmental change

2016 Report Content
... services requires energy and materials—metals, minerals, water, food and fibre—all of which come from the ...
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Improving management effectiveness

2016
Effectiveness of management
Report Content

2016 Effectiveness of management Managing the environment increasingly requires an understanding of how different pressures interact, and how management frameworks interact across different jurisdictions and sectors. It also requires sufficient...

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Conclusion

2016
Outlook
Report Content

2016 Outlook Our natural environment makes human life possible, and our cultural environment helps define who we are. It is therefore essential that our population and economic growth are environmentally sustainable. The most positive outlook for...

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Escalation of existing pressures

2016
Biodiversity
Risks
Report Content

2016 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...

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Executive summary - Drivers

2016 Executive Summary

2016Globally, the human-caused drivers of change to the environment are demographic, economic, socio-political, scientific, technological, cultural and religious. In Australia, the key drivers of environmental change are population and economic activity. The extent to which these drivers...

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Effectiveness of management 2016

2016
Ambient air quality
Effectiveness of management
At a glance

At a glanceAustralia has had national standards and goals for ambient air quality for almost 20 years—the National Environment Protection Measure for Ambient Air Quality (Air NEPM). These are based on strong empirical evidence about the health impacts of major pollutants. However, revision...

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Water quality

2016
Inland water
State and trends
Report Content
Water quality in SoE  2011 was assessed as a significant ... collection, collation, analysis and assessment of water quality data from thousands of sites across Australia. A comprehensive report considered water quality at the river-region scale, and information was ...
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Executive summary - Overview

2016 Executive Summary

2016In the past 5 years (2011–16), environmental policies and management practices in Australia have achieved improvements in the state and trends of parts of the Australian environment. Australia’s built environment, natural and cultural heritage, and marine and Antarctic environments are...

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Effectiveness of management for specific pressures and drivers

2016
Effectiveness of management
Report Content

2016 Effectiveness of management 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 pressures. In many cases, the most...

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