Heritage

Factors affecting resilience capacity

A major systemic threat to Australia’s heritage is its relative priority in planning, land use and development decision-making. Heritage is often determined to be expendable in the name of a greater community or economic good.
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Heritage

Approaches to resilience

The concept of resilience has not been widely applied in Australian heritage management (see ‘Resilience’ in the SoE 2011 Heritage chapter, SoE Committee 2011).
2016
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Heritage

Evidence of past resilience

The resilience of heritage places depends on the nature of their values and the extent of the total resource. Australian bioregions that are well represented in the reserved lands system are much more resilient as a whole than under-represented bioregions.
2016
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Murray DarlingGreater Sydney
Heritage

Preparedness for future pressures

The drivers and pressures that threaten Australia’s heritage do so in different ways, leading to different opportunities to prepare for future pressures or shocks.
2016
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Antarctica
Mackay R (2016). Heritage: Topics. In: Australia state of the environment 2016, Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy, Canberra, https://soe.environment.gov.au/theme/heritage/topics?framework=121, DOI 10.4226/94/58b658bbe13a0