Australia's Natural Resources
1997-2002 and beyond
National Land and Water Resources Audit, 2002
Appendix 4 - Australian Natural Resources Atlas and Data Library (May 2002)
Australian Natural Resources Atlas
Agriculture
- Agriculture - an overview
- Agriculture - context for sustainable natural resource management
- Agriculture - changing face of agriculture
- Agriculture - statistics
- Industry - beef
- Industry - cotton
- Industry - dairy
- Industry - grains
- Industry - horticulture
- Industry - sheep/wool
- Industry - sugar
- Irrigation - an introduction
- Irrigation - extent
- Irrigation - production
- Irrigation - water consumption
- Irrigation - infrastructure and distribution
Coasts
- Estuary Assessment 2000
- Tools and information to support estuary management
- Understanding estuary condition
- Understanding estuary processes
Land
- Land use - an overview of land use in 1996/97
- Land use - change, intensity and diversity
- Dryland salinity - in context
- Dryland salinity - risk and hazard 2000-2050
- Dryland salinity - groundwater flow systems
- Dryland salinity - impacts and costs
- Dryland salinity - management
- Dryland salinity - monitoring and evaluation
- Dryland salinity - case studies
- Landscape - carbon, nutrients, water and productivity
- Nutrients - farm gate nutrient balance
- Soils - an overview
- Soils - Australian Soil Resources Information System
- Soils - erosion and sediment transport
- Soils - acidification
- Monitoring - land condition
People
- Australians and Natural Resource Management 2001 - an overview
- Individuals and farm management
- Adjustment - agriculture structure-an overview
- Adjustment - Australian agricultural sector in 1986
- Adjustment - Strategies and outcomes 1986-1996
- Adjustment - future structure of agriculture and catchment communities
- Economics - in natural resource management - an overview
- Economics - natural resource accounting framework
- Economics - returns to the agricultural resource base
- Economics - costs to agriculture from resource degradation
- Economics - costs of resource use off-farm and downstream
- Economics - valuing non-markets assets
Rangelands
- Rangelands - an introduction
- Monitoring
- Biophysical resources
- Impacts on biophysical resources
- People in rangelands
- Institutional response
- Project documentation
Vegetation and biodiversity
- Landscape health
- Natural resource management and native vegetation
- The National Vegetation Information System framework
- Native vegetation types and extent in Australia
- Effects of clearing on native vegetation in Australia
- Native vegetation management in Australia
Water
- Water resources - an overview
- Water resources - availability
- Water resources - allocation and use
- Water resources - management and development
- Water resources - water quality
- Rivers - nutrient loads and transport
- Rivers - assessment of river condition
Australian Natural Resources Data Library
Agriculture
- Agricultural industries-regional boundaries
- Spatially consistent subsets of agricultural statistics from 1982/83 to 1996/97
Biodiversity and Vegetation
- Pre-European major vegetation groups and subgroups (held by Department of the Environment and Water Resources)
- Major native vegetation groups and subgroups (held by Environment Australia)
- Cleared major native vegetation groups (held by Environment Australia)
- Landscape health in Australia 2001 (held by Environment Australia)
Coasts
- Estuary condition assessment 2000 (held by Geoscience Australia)
Land
- Australian Dryland Salinity Assessment 2000
- Australian groundwater flow systems
- Australia-wide land use (1:1 000 000)
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Landscape carbon balance
- Landscape nitrogen and phosphorus balances
- Fertiliser use
- Soil properties-the Australian Soil Resources Information System:
- Organic carbon in the soil
- Total phosphorus or nitrogen
- Soil texture, depth and density
- % of clay, silt or sand
- pH and ability to resist pH change
- Water storage capacity
- Permeability of the soil
Rangelands
- Land tenure in the rangelands from 1957
- Season quality in the rangelands
- Total grazing pressure from 1957 in the rangelands
Social and economic dimensions of natural resources
- Age and experience
- Education and training
- Farm financial characteristics
- Farm family characteristics
- Farm structure
- Sustainable practice
- Social and institutional contact as sources of change
- Remoteness and other community indicators
- Indicators of rural adjustment
- Agricultural profit at full equity
- Costs to agriculture
- Input costs to non-agricultural infrastructure
Water resources
- Australian Water Resource Assessment 2000
- Surface water quality (held by Environment Australia)
- Surface Water Management Area boundaries (held by Geoscience Australia)
- Groundwater Management Unit boundaries (held by Geoscience Australia)
- A nested set of catchments and subcatchments for Australia
- Estimated daily and monthly streamflow data from 1901 to 1998 for 286 catchments
- 1985 review of Australia's water resources and water use
- River nutrients, loads and transport
- Assessment of river condition (held by Environment Australia)