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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 Rangelands Information System - Project Documentation
Australian Rangelands Information System
- Rangelands-Tracking Changes final report
- Rangelands-Tracking Changes summary report
- The Australian Rangelands Information System Operational Manual Version 1.0 (by A. Holm, November 2000). (PDF - 190 KB) The full manual is available only in hard copy from the Audit Office.
- Summary
- Rangelands-Tracking Changes summary report (PDF - 11.5 MB)
Biophysical Resources
- "The Framework" (PDF - 320 KB)
- Background Paper 1 - "A review of changes in status and threatening processes" (PDF - 2 MB) and Appendices A & B (PDF - 6 MB)
- Background Paper 2 - "A review of pastoral monitoring programs and their real and potential contribution to biodiversity monitoring" (PDF - 1.2 MB)
- Background Paper 3 - "A review of Information gathered from existing biodiversity monitoring programs" (PDF - 663 KB)
- Background Paper 4 - "Approaches to broad-scale monitoring of biological diversity - a brief" (PDF - 131 KB)
- Case Study 1 - "Biodiversity monitoring in Cape York Peninsular" (PDF - 92 KB)
- Case Study 2 - "Biodiversity monitoring in the Gascoyne-Murchison Strategy area" (PDF - 243 KB)
- Manual for biodiversity monitoring (PDF - 124 KB)
- "Ecosystem function analysis of rangelands monitoring data" report (by D. Tongway & N.Hindley, 1999) (PDF - 166 KB) and Summary (HTML)
Impacts on Biopysical Resources
- "Indices of change in ecosystem function at the national scale using AVHRR NDVI data" report (by S.Cridland, 2000)[PDF - 380KB] and Summary
- "Indices of change in ecosystem function (cover) for northern South Australia using Landsat TM data" report (by A.Brook, R.Tynan & M.Flemming, 2001[PDF - 1.7MB] and Summary
"Regional land condition and trend assessment in Tropical Savannas" report (by R. Karfs, R. Applegate, R. Fisher, D. Lynch, D. Mullin, P. Novelly, L. Peel, K. Richardson, P. Thomas & J. Wallace, 2000):
- Summary
- Final Report (PDF - 2MB)
- Technical Summation (PDF - 4MB)
- The East Kimberley/VRD Region - the Ord-Victoria WA/NT (PDF - 2MB)
- Appendix (PDF - 2MB)
- "Incidences of extreme climatic events" report (by S.Cridland, 2000) [PDF - 264KB] and Summary
- "Change in land tenure/land use" report (by M. Gutteridge, W. Hall & A. Hanna, 2000)[PDF - 844KB] and Summary
- "Intensity of land use" report (by M. Gutteridge, G. Stone, A. Hanna, J. Kingston & W. Hall, 2001)[PDF - 7.48MB] and Summary
Socioeconomic
"Compilation of a database of socioeconomic indicators for the rangelands" (by G. Haberkorn, C.MacGregor, S. Kelson & C. Charalambou, 2001):
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"Indicators within a decision framework - social, economic and institutional indicators for sustainable management in the rangelands" (by Centre for International Economics, Bureau for Rural Sciences, CSIRO & Resource Planning and Management, 2001.)
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