Brief description
The National Land & Water Resources Audit (the Audit) collated data and information on the status of Australia’s natural resources and contextual social and economic information.\\
The information was used to assist in identifying Australia’s natural resource management priorities and will be used to support the evaluation of current and future natural resource management (NRM) investments.\
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he estuary assessment compiled readily available data and used qualitative and quantitative methods. The assessment provides detail on the condition of Australian estuaries including the amount of modification from the pristine state, drivers of change, susceptibility to further change, and key management needs.
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Maintenance and Update Frequency: asNeeded\
The Audit worked in partnership with State agencies to assist in the identification of national information needs. The data for estuary assessment was collated primarily by state and federal agencies around the country, including:\
- Cooperative Research Centre for Coastal Zone, Estuary and Waterway Management\
- Geoscience Australia\
- CSIRO Marine Research\
- CSIRO Land and Water\
- University of Queensland\
- Department of Lands, Panning and Environment, Northern Territory\
- Environmental Protection Agency, Queensland\
- Department of Primary Industries, Queensland\
- Department of Land and Water Conservation, New South Wales\
- Environmental Protection Agency, Victoria\
- Department of Primary Industries, Water and the Environment, Tasmania\
- Environmental Protection Agency, South Australia\
- Water & Rivers Commission, Western Australia
Issued: 31 03 2002
text: westlimit=113.35699000000001; southlimit=-43.603; eastlimit=153.62201; northlimit=-10.840999603272; projection=WGS 1984
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Point of truth metadata record
uri :
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au:443/geonetwork/srv/api/records/8fec03d6-48e3-4352-9ddb-085e42e55637
National Land and Water Resources Audit data on the OzCoasts website (National Land and Water Resources Audit data)
uri :
http://www.ozcoasts.gov.au/search_data/estuary_data.jsp
(Original CSV file containing NLWRA estuaries data.)
uri :
http://data.aodn.org.au/TERN/ACEF/Estuaries/NLWRA_estuaries_All_states.csv
(Shapefile data for NLWRA estuaries.)
uri :
http://data.aodn.org.au/TERN/ACEF/Estuaries/Australian_estuaries_NLWRA.zip
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