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Contents

• Key findings
• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Soil
  • 1.2 Vegetation
  • 1.3 In this chapter
• 2 State and trends of the land environment
  • 2.1 Land use and management
    • 2.1.1 Land use trends
  • 2.2 Soil
    • 2.2.1 Baseline
    • 2.2.2 A framework for understanding soil
    • 2.2.3 Key indicators of soil condition
    • 2.2.4 Carbon dynamics
    • Assessment summary 5.1—state and trends of soil carbon
    • 2.2.5 Soil acidification
    • Assessment summary 5.2—state and trends of soil acidification
    • 2.2.6 Soil erosion
    • Assessment summary 5.3—state and trends of soil erosion by water and wind
  • 2.3 Vegetation
    • 2.3.1 Native vegetation
    • 2.3.2 Non-native vegetation
    • Assessment summary 5.4—state and trends of vegetation
• 3 Pressures affecting the land environment
  • 3.1 Climate change-induced pressures
    • 3.1.1 Native vegetation
    • 3.1.2 Diseases, pests and weeds
    • 3.1.3 Agricultural and forestry production systems
    • Assessment summary 5.5—continental scale pressures affecting the land environment
  • 3.2 Regional and landscape-scale pressures
    • 3.2.1 Bushfire
    • 3.2.2 Land clearing
    • 3.2.3 Invasive species
    • Assessment summary 5.6—regional and landscape-scale pressures affecting the land environment
  • 3.3 Land uses
    • 3.3.1 Grazing
    • 3.3.2 Nature conservation reserves, other protected areas, ‘minimal use’ land and Indigenous land
    • 3.3.3 Agriculture
    • 3.3.4 Production forestry
    • 3.3.5 Urban and rural residential
    • 3.3.6 Mining
    • 3.3.7 Waste disposal and contamination
    • Assessment summary 5.7—contemporary land-use pressures on the land environment
• 4 Effectiveness of land management
  • 4.1 Management context
  • 4.2 Resources and capacity for management
  • 4.3 Knowledge and institutional arrangements
    • 4.3.1 Institutional arrangements for environmental information
    • 4.3.2 Market failure
    • 4.3.3 The changing nature of mapping, monitoring and forecasting
    • 4.3.4 Reform and integration
  • 4.4 Human capital
    • Assessment summary 5.8—effectiveness of land management
• 5 Resilience of the land environment
  • 5.1 Landscape and soil
  • 5.2 Vegetation
• 6 Risks to the land environment
  • Assessment summary 5.9—current and emerging risks to the land environment
• 7 Outlook for the land environment
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