This report concentrates on specifying guidelines for assessing, monitoring and reporting on Australia's rangelands. The report summarises the information on Australia's rangelands available in the Australian Natural Resources Atlas and details the benefits and components of the proposed rangeland monitoring initiative. Australian Collaborative Rangeland Information System: providing an information base to assist public and private decisions on sustainable land use management in Australia's rangelands.

This publication has been created out of the main project synthesising saltland knowledge - the Saltland Genie website. The Saltland Genie website brought together the latest findings and conclusions about saltland management to provide the most reliable recommendations that are available. The website is the 'supermarket' for anyone shopping for saltland knowledge. It has been designed specifically to take advantage of the power of web delivery, with everything the 'shopper' might need, including a 'shop assistant' - the Genie - to direct you down the right 'aisle' and link you up the most appropriate information.

The Australian Native Vegetation Assessment 2001 details Australia-wide activities undertaken to implement a national vegetation data management and information provision system. Using the data compiled in this system, this report assesses the status of Australia's native vegetation and makes suggestions for continued development of the information system and its application in supporting natural resource management decisions.

Australian Catchment, River and Estuary Assessment 2002 presents the key findings for the Audit's Ecosystem Health theme by: *reporting on the condition of catchments, rivers and estuaries within Australia's more intensively used river basins * presenting assessment methods based on an understanding of the key biophysical processes affecting catchment, river and estuary condition *serving as an input towards improved assessment and management. Australian Catchment, River and Estuary Assessment 2002 was prepared in partnership with State, Territory and Commonwealth agencies; the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation; the Cooperative Research Centre for Coastal Zone, Estuary and Waterway Management; the Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology; Geoscience Australia; CSIRO Land and Water; and CSIRO Marine.

This booklet is part of a series that describes the status of data and information relevant to national indicators agreed under the National Natural Resource Management Monitoring and Evaluation Framework. It specifically reports on the status of information relating to indicators of community and social processes relevant to or affected by NRM programs as well as measures of the adoption of sustainable development and production techniques. These indicators are based on the following headings: * Land managers' capacity to change & adopt sustainable management practices * Capacity of regional organisations and social and institutional foundations of NRM

This booklet summarises the current capacity to report on land salinity indicators pertaining to the land salinity "matter for target" agreed under the National Natural Resource Management Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (the National M&E Framework).

Mathematical programming provides a very useful method of analysis for assessing the profitability of new grazing systems and pasture species. A large number of production options can be described, in addition to the resources constraints confronting farmers. This capacity enables the whole farming system to be represented, including the interrelatedness of production enterprises, such as rotational influences on crop and pasture production and input levels. For these reasons mathematical programming models were applied to the economic analysis of SGSL data.

This fact sheet presents the key findings and recommendations from the Land & Water Australia managed project: Restoring landscapes with confidence an evaluation of the science, the methods and their on-ground application.

This edition is focusses on on the research being funded through the National River Contaminants Program, a joint initiative of Land & Water Australia and the Murray-Darling Basin Commission. The research being funded covers a range of different issues related to understanding and managing contaminants in our river systems. Also included a large range of new products for you to access, for example climate prediction tools groundwater models and two new irrigation insights reports that make interesting readin

The National Climate Variability R&D Program aims to work with the Australian agricultural sector to develop and implement profitable and sustainable management strategies which prepare the sector to respond to the major opportunities and risks arising from climate variability.