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NESP MB Project C1 - Improving our understanding of pressures on the marine environment

This record provides an overview of the scope and research output of NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Project C1 - "Improving our understanding of pressures on the marine environment". For specific data outputs from this project, please see child records associated with this metadata.


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The marine environment in Australia is influenced by a wide range of different pressures that impact on different parts of the marine ecosystem in different ways. This project aims to assist DoE, and other research users, to improve understanding of the potential impacts of anthropogenic disturbance to marine conservation values by providing up-to-date data and analyses on the spatial distribution of pressures and trends. The research is designed to inform decision making under the EPBC Act (acceptability of proposed activities, evaluation of effectiveness of mitigation measures) on NMES (including Key Ecological Features), implementation of multiple strategies in four Marine Bioregional Plans (i.e. strategies B, C, D and F), management of Commonwealth Marine Reserves (e.g. strategies 1 and 2 in the South-east Commonwealth Marine Reserve Network Management Plan 2013-23) and State of the Environment reporting.


The project will involve a re-examination of the pressure analyses undertaken through the marine bioregional planning program and the 2011 SOE Report (marine chapter) and determine where pressure mapping can be improved to enhance those analyses (for instance for those pressures for which data deficiency was identified). It will also examine the strengths and weaknesses of the different pressure assessment methodologies used by both the MBP process and the SOE 2011 process and propose a methodology that can support both initiatives into the future. The project will provide pressures profiles for CMRs and will assist Parks Australia in understanding how pressures interact with the values they identify in CMRs.


The project will also consider relative impact, and how spatial mapping can assist in understanding both relative and cumulative impact. As an adjunct to the cumulative impact investigation, the project will also investigate how changes in socio-economic valuing of conservation values may influence the degree of investment in understanding and management of cumulative impact. This particular work will further the risk-based approach to cumulative impact that was investigated under the NERP Hub.


Planned Outputs

• Produce description of summary of changes and trends in pressures on the commonwealth marine environment in the offshore marine environment from 1991 to 2010.

• Production of inshore and offshore pressure summaries to inform SOE reporting (2011-2015)

• Produce description of trends in pressures acting on the commonwealth marine environment (onshore & offshore) between 1991 & 2015, with refined summaries for all KEFs and CMRs.

• Distribute pressure data and pressure data summaries through NPEI compliant data infrastructure.

• Produce analysis and description of the likely future states (for example, climate (interannual and decadal), shipping, modification of fisheries activity, coastal eutrophication)

• Re-evaluation of the pressure assessments published in the 2012 Marine Bioregional Plans , ensuring consistency of output, updating the profiles for all KEFs

• Report on the changing socio-economic valuing of conservation values to the concept of acceptable impact, or acceptable risk of impact

• Report on a risk based framework to manage the uncertainty information bases for different decision making requirements with example case

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2016-03-23

Resource provider

Department of the Environment and Energy (DoEE), Australian Government
Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy
GPO Box 787
Canberra
Australian Capital Territory
2601
Australia
Credit
Jeff Dambacher (CSIRO), Piers Dunstan (CSIRO), Michael Fuller (CSIRO), Ryan Downie (CSIRO), Cass Hunter (CSIRO), Abbie Rogers (UWA)
Credit
National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub
Credit
Department of the Environment and Energy, Australian Government
Credit
In addition to NESP (DoE) funding, this project is matched by an equivalent amount of in-kind support and co-investment from project partners and collaborators.
Status
On going

Principal investigator

CSIRO - Dunstan, Piers, Dr (Project Leader)
GPO Box 1538
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia
+61 3 62325382
+61 3 62325000 (facsimile)
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Topic category
  • Oceans

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Temporal extent

Time period
2015-07-01 2017-12-31
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Keywords (dataSource)
  • National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research
  • Natural Resource Management
  • Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)
Keywords (Theme)
  • impact
  • pressure
  • risk
  • socio-economic values
  • conservation values

Resource constraints

Classification
Unclassified

Resource constraints

Use limitation
The data collections described in this record are funded by the Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy (DoEE) through the NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub.

Resource constraints

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Content Information

Content type
Physical measurement

Distribution Information

Distribution format
OnLine resource
NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Project C1 webpage

OnLine resource
Department of the Environment and Energy NESP website

Metadata

Metadata identifier
9130534d-34d1-4b18-a255-668d4b04b1a1

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS) - Emma Flukes (NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Data Manager)
Private Bag 129
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia
Parent metadata
  • National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity (MB) Hub - Funding Program 2015-2021

Type of resource

Resource scope
Field session
Name
MB Hub Project C1
Metadata linkage
https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/9130534d-34d1-4b18-a255-668d4b04b1a1

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Date info (Creation)
2020-02-18T14:44:42
Date info (Revision)
2020-02-18T14:44:42

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3:2018
 
 

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Keywords

conservation values impact pressure risk socio-economic values

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