Australian Agricultural Environments (AAE) 2012

Brief description

18 Australian Agricultural Environments (AAEs) developed by ABARES to stratify survey collection and analysis for the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Land Management Practices Survey (LaMPS). The ABS conducted the LaMPS to support Common Practices Assessments for the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI). The 18 AAEs differentiate broad environmental, land use and land management patterns across Australia’s agricultural landscapes. The regionalisation combines ABS statistical units with published agro-ecological regions. The AAEs have been specifically developed to stratify data collection and analysis for the LaMPS and users of this regional classification should be aware of the limitations and currency of the underlying information when using these regional boundaries.

Full description

AAE.zip - The Australian Agricultural Environments (AAEs) are provided as a zipped shapefile created in ARCGIS 10.0 24MB\r\n\r\nThis file contains CODE – AAE number, NAME – AAE name, DESCRIBE – AAE description, and Area in HA for each of the 18 AAEs. \r\nWhen referring to this dataset in publications: ABARES (2012) Australian Agricultural Environments. Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Canberra, Australia.\r\n
Technical report: Australian Agricultural Environments Regions for common practice assessments - Technical Report: describes the 18 Australian Agricultural Environments (AAEs) ABARES developed to stratify survey collection and analysis for the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 2012 Land Management Practices Survey (LaMPS).
Technical report: The Carbon Farming Initiative A proposed common practice framework for assessing additionality - Technical report describing the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) which is is an important component of the Australian Government’s Clean Energy Future plan, designed to reduce emissions from land sector activities. It is a long-term policy mechanism that will help the land sector sell carbon credits in domestic and international markets.
README_AAE.rtf - Readme file: Containing information for users of the Australian Agricultural Environments (AAEs) developed by ABARES to stratify survey collection and analysis for the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Land Management Practices Survey (LaMPS).
Australian Agricultural Environments (AAE) 2012 - Preview this Dataset (WMS) - View the data in this dataset online via an online map
Australian Agricultural Environments (AAE) 2012 Web Feature Service API Link - WFS API Link for use in Desktop GIS tools
Australian Agricultural Environments (AAE) 2012 GeoJSON - For use in web-based data visualisation of this collection