Landuse Change, Productivity & Development
Final Report of Theme 5.1 to the National Land & Water Resources Audit
August 2001
Contents
- Context
- Land use
- Agricultural land use
- AScale effects in determining change
Historical and Geographical Context
- Summary
- Geography and climate
- Historical development
- Trends for major industries over 140 years
- Productivity
- Major factors in land use change
Recent Land Use Changes (1983-1997)
- Summary
- Patern of Land Use in Australia (1996-97)
- Farm size
- Changes in land use between 1982-83 and 1996-97
- Changes in irrigation
- Intensification of land use
- Changes in diversity of land use
- Conclusions
- Summary
- Yields of major industries
- Biological productivity
- Summary
- Victoria
- Loddon
- Corangomite
- Western Australia
- Blackwood Catchment
- Greenough/chapman Catchment
- Summary
- Factors influenceing forcasts on the future of agriculture
- Projections
- Discussion on projections
- Inplications for natural resource management
- Quality and consistency of data
- Changes in land use
- Productivity
- Scale
- Drivers of land use change
- Land use and resource condition
- Projections
- Reading list of Agricultural History
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This report has been commissioned by the National Land and Water Resources Audit as part of its investigations under Theme 5 Productivity and Sustainability.
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