Australians and Natural Resource Management
National Land and Water Resources Audit, Commonwealth of Australia
March 2002
ISBN 0 642 37123 7
Contents
National Land and Water Resources Audit
Australians and Natural Resource Management 2002
Our land and water resources—setting the scene
- Land use and climate
- Water resources and use
- Returns from agriculture
- Net value of agricultural production
- Spatial estimates of profit at full equity
- Returns to water resources
- Net economic returns
- Land values
- Some long-term trends and driving forces
Natural resource management decisions—an integrated approach
- Managing natural resources
- A decision framework for policy makers
- A rapid assessment framework
Australian farmers—relating to natural resource management
- Assessment framework context
- Responses to pressures for change
- The nature of natural resource management practices
- Beliefs about the environment
- Financial capacity
- Management skill
- Landcare involvement
- Individual demographic and psychological differences
- Changing social landscape of agricultural Australia
- Assessment framework context
- Dryland salinity, sodicity and acidity
- The value of yield gaps
- Benefits and costs of treating sodic and acidic soils
- Landholder perceptions of land degradation and effects on
land values
- Assessment framework context
- Local infrastructure costs of salinity and high water tables
- Increases in impact costs of declining water quality on
downstream non-agricultural industries and households - Summing up the costs of salinity
- The impacts of land and water degradation on
environmental values
- Assessment framework context
- Economic and social assessment of case study regions
- Lessons from the four case studies on dryland salinity
Building regional capacity for change
- Assessment framework context
- Information supporting regional planning and development
- ‘Gippsland model’ case study
- Fitzroy River Basin case study
- Dairy industry—case study of planning for improved natural
resources management
- Introduction
- Sustainable management of natural resources
- Looking to the future
- Meeting Audit objectives
Appendices
1. Economic data by river basin
2. Estimation of relative yields
3. Briefing papers from Fitzroy Signposts project
4. ‘Best practice’ management principles for the dairy industry
5. Benefit transfer guidelines
Glossary of terms and conversions
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| Publication data: | ‘Australians and Natural Resource Management 2002.’ |
| ISBN: | 0 642 37123 7 |
| Editing and design: | Themeda |
| Cover design: | City Graphics |
| Cover photograph: | John Bourke |
| Printing: | Union Offset |
March 2002
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