National Land and Water Resources Audit A p r o g r a m o f t h e N a t u r a l H e r i t a g e T r u s t National Land & Water Resources Audit 1997 to 2008 Blair Wood, Executive Director, 2003-2008 Warwick McDonald, Technical Director, 1998-2002 Colin Creighton, Executive Director, 1997-2002
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National Land and Water Resources AuditA p r o g r a m o f t h e N a t u r a l H e r i t a g e T r u s t
National Land & Water Resources Audit
1997 to 2008
Blair Wood, Executive Director, 2003-2008
Warwick McDonald, Technical Director, 1998-2002
Colin Creighton, Executive Director, 1997-2002
Our PhilosophyOur Philosophy
1. Get the question right
2. Get the right information
3. Get the science right
4. Deliver benefits and legacy
Build the infrastructure for Build the infrastructure for continuing assessmentcontinuing assessment
What is the…health and trend of Australia’s natural resources?effectiveness of program investments in nrm?
If we want to be able to undertake successive assessment of the condition of our natural resources and assess why they are changing
• What information do you need to collect?• Getting agreement to collect• How do you manage it?• How do you report condition and trend?
Audit 1 Audit 2
What information to collect?What information to collect?
Agreement to Useful Agreement to Useful national Productsnational Products
StateState
NRMNRMRegionRegion
IBRAIBRACatchmentCatchment
Veg Veg ExtentExtentBy…..By…..
How has the information been How has the information been used?used?
Continuing the AssessmentsContinuing the Assessments
National Biodiversity Assessment - 2008• Building the capacity to measure trends• Report against the biodiversity assets threats
and responses• Much progress – but we still can’t report .
Rangelands 2008 “Taking the pulse”• Reporting change in many indicators and processes• Building an on-going capacity to interpret change• Evidence based policy and decisions
Regional Reporting – building capacity
Signposts for Australian Signposts for Australian Agriculture Agriculture
What did we learn?What did we learn?
• Good institutional systems for ongoing data management are essential• It is never enough to just collect the data• Knowledge should be seen as a public asset, not power• Levels of accuracy must be clearly defined• Rigorous science practice provides an excellent platform for building business propositions
Success factorsSuccess factors
•Purpose• Frameworks• Resources• Science• Partnerships• Good will• Institutional form• …Drambuie
Assessment principlesAssessment principles
• System approach – process understanding
• Data driven– Mapping > monitoring > modelling
• Scalable – continent context informing targeted
regional investment• Management orientated
One ExampleOne Example
Biophysical understanding of diffuse pollution
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Rainfall ErosivityR
Soil ErodibilityK
Cover ManagementC
Slope & Slope LengthL&S
Support PracticeP
HILLSLOPE EROSION RATE
Monthly Soil Loss Ratio
Monthly Distribution of R Factor
QDNR Daily RainfallASRIS Soil Attributes High res & 9” DEMs
Terrain Analysis
Woody cover and monthly grass cover
BRS Landuse AVHRR Derived NDVI
Time Series Analysis
Monthly C Factor
ReflectionsScientific underpinning
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Land & Water Systems approach: multi-scale
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Targeting and setting regional prioritiesLAND & WATER
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NRMPriorities for management identified
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People Incentives – essential for public benefit
Sustainable Landscapes
Public Benefit, as a flow on from Public Benefit, as a flow on from Audit I & II Audit I & II
Reef Rescue & Project Catalyst Reef Rescue & Project Catalyst Roll OutRoll Out
Key Ingredients include:
Building on Audit outputs -
Incentives for public benefit [Reef Rescue]
Regulations [Qld Govt]
Monitoring
R&D [Project Catalyst]
Some International Flow OnsSome International Flow Ons
Input to EU Directive – Rivers Participated in design and rollout of Millennium Assessment [and then MDG’s] WMO Floodplain Management GuidelinesGlobal Water Partnership focus on multi-value water assets USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service - Nutrient Management from diffuse sources
Some Quotable QuotesSome Quotable Quotes“no – we will have a war against salinity” “well – haven’t you fixed it yet?” “ what’s in it for the farmer?” “but you know as well as I do, the media will take photos of dead sheep and dry dams and we are back where we started from” “taking information from regions, joining it together to produce a national overview should be simple” “the states don’t matter”
“that’s bullshit Minister – and you know it is”
Some Key LessonsSome Key Lessons
Politicians love a crisis – statesmen seek solutions Evidence-based decision making wins .......eventually
Timing is everything Business cases, partnerships and clarity of beneficiaries are essential
a well articulated vision
The Continued ChallengeThe Continued Challenge
• Public investment requires priorities
• For priorities we need long term strategic information – conditions and trends
• Information must answer the “what can you do about it?’ question
Information must be managed as a national asset and translated to