Australian Natural Resources Atlas

Natural Resource Topics

Natural resource topics

In this section you will find detailed information, including national overviews and state and regional level assessments, from the 2000-2002 NLWRA theme assessments.

Agriculture: Natural resource management issues facing Australian agriculture.

Coasts: Condition of Australian estuaries and information to underpin and inform estuarine management.

Dryland salinity: Distribution and impacts of dryland salinity across Australia.

Irrigation: Extent and level of water consumption through irrigation, and challenges for sustainable irrigation development.

Land: Catchment condition, change, intensity and diversity in Australian land use, and landscape nutrients and productivity.

Natural resource economics: Economic and social dimensions of the management of Australia's land and water resources.

People: Individuals and farm management, and socio-economic factors influencing sustainable management in the agriculture sector including population, education, and farmer age.

Rangelands: Information for sustainable management of Australia's rangelands, including monitoring, impacts on ecosystems and socio-economic factors.

Soils: Soil erosion, sediment transport, acidification and monitoring soil change.

Vegetation and biodiversity: Information on native vegetation and landscape health, and management priorities for biodiversity conservation.

Water: Quantity, quality, use, allocation and management of our surface water and groundwater resources.

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