State of the Environment 2011 (SoE 2011)
State of the Environment 2011 Committee. Australia state of the environment 2011.
Independent report to
the Australian Government Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities.
Canberra: DSEWPaC, 2011.
5 Land
Contents
- Key findings
- 1 Introduction
- 2 State and trends of the land environment
- 2.1 Land use and management
- 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
- 3 Pressures affecting the land environment
- 3.1 Climate change-induced pressures
- 3.2 Regional and landscape-scale pressures
- 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
- 5 Resilience of the land environment
- 6 Risks to the land environment
- 7 Outlook for the land environment
- References
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