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In this section you will find detailed information, including national overviews and state and regional level assessments, from the 2000-2002 National Land and Water Resources Audit theme assessments.
Australian Catchment, River and Estuary Assessment 2002
National Land and Water Resources Audit, 2002
ISBN 0 642 37125 3
Australian Catchment, River and Estuary Assessment 2002
Australian Catchment, River and Estuary Assessment 2002 is Australia's first comprehensive assessment of catchments, rivers and estuaries. The assessment:
- uses a systemic approach based on catchments to determine the aggregate impact of land use on catchments, rivers and estuaries;
- provides a method for the relative comparison of catchment condition across Australia's more intensively used river basins;
- presents an assessment of river condition using a reach framework that provides a basis for future Australia-wide river assessment;
- classifies Australia's estuaries in terms of their condition and dominant biophysical processes that govern their form, function and management needs;
- raises issues of how best to invest in catchment, river and estuary management including choices between protective management and remedial works; and
- identifies knowledge gaps and data deficiencies that need to be addressed to improve Australian catchment, river and estuary management.
Australian Catchment, River and Estuary Assessment 2002 was prepared in partnership with State, Territory and Commonwealth natural resource management agencies and organisations.
Australian Capital Territory
- Environment ACT
New South Wales
- Department of Land and Water Conservation
- Environment Protection Authority
Northern Territory
- Department of Lands, Planning & Environment
Queensland
- Department of Natural Resources and Mines
- Environment Protection Agency
- Department of Primary Industries
South Australia
- Department of Primary Industries South Australia
- Environment Protection Agency
- Australian Water Quality Centre
Tasmania
- Department of Primary Industries, Water & Environment
Victoria
- Department of Natural Resources & Environment
- Environment Protection Authority
Western Australia
- Water and Rivers Commission
- Environmental Protection Authority
Commonwealth
- Environment Australia
- Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry - Australia
- Geoscience Australia
- Bureau of Rural Sciences
- CSIRO Land and Water
- CSIRO Marine Research
Cooperative Research Centre for Coastal Zone, Estuary and Waterway Management
Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
University of Queensland
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