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Library and Links to Internet Information

• Publications relevant to Water and Catchment Management.
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 Online Publications and Databases

 Online Spatial Databases & Information

 Helpful Documents

Online Publications

Topics in this section:

• National River Health Program
• AUSRIVAS Protocol - Chemical & Physical Assessment
• Sydney
• Environment Australia Online Library
• CSIRO - Tropical Agriculture: Community-based Integrated Catchment Management (ICM)
• Integrated Resource Management Research
• Australian and New Zealand Guidelines for Fresh and Marine Water Quality

National River Health Program

 Published Reports - National River Health Program

The published reports from the Urban Subprogram of the National River Health Program have been made available on au.riversinfo.org. They are:

• Outcomes
  • Outcomes of the NRHP Urban Sub-Program
• Estuaries
  • A Physical Classification of Australian Estuaries
  • Assessing the ecological health of estuaries in Australia
  • Estuarine Eutrophication Models
  • SEEM (Simple Estuarine Eutrophication Model) User's Manual.
  • Estuarine Health Assessment Using Benthic Macrofauna
• Decision Support System
  • Basic Decision Support System for Management of Urban Streams Part A
  • Basic Decision Support System for Management of Urban Streams Part B Software Manual
  • Basic Decision Support System for Management of Urban Streams Part C Pilot Studies in Brisbane
  • Basic Decision Support System for Management of Urban Streams. Part D. Demonstration Game 'Lets Fix Urban Streams'
• Diatoms
  • A Guide to Diatoms as Indicators of Urban Stream Health
  • Diatom Prediction & Classification System for Urban Streams.
• Macroinvertebrates & AUSRIVAS
  • Sediment Chemistry - Macroinvertebrate Fauna Relationships in Urban Streams
  • An evaluation of AUSRIVAS models for urban stream assessment
• Bibliography
  • A Preliminary Bibliography from the National River Health Program is available

AUSRIVAS Protocol - Chemical & Physical Assessment

 AUSRIVAS Protocol - Chemical & Physical Assessment

• The Australian River Assessment System (AUSRIVAS) is a nationally standardised approach to biological assessment of stream condition using macroinvertebrates. It was developed under the auspices of the National River Health Program (NRHP).
• This section of the site provides extensive information on physical and chemical assessment methods and detailed instructions on the measurement of each AUSRIVAS variable.

Sydney

Sydney airport have co-funded a Natural Heritage Trust supported project intended to develop Internet based environmental information integration and management systems. This will assist in developing an overall perspective on the demands and uses for environmental resources within Australia's most populated and developed region. The following resources will be of interest to all those seeking information on the Botany Bay System

• Interim Southern Sydney Regional Strategic Plan
• Turning the Tide
• The Botany Basin; Its Bedrock Topography And Recent Geological History
• Botany Bay Program

 Interim Southern Sydney Regional Strategic Plan

 Turning the Tide

 The Botany Basin; Its Bedrock Topography And Recent Geological History

 Cooks River Catchment Management Strategy

Other Sources

 Environment Australia Online Library
Publications, Searching Facilities, Databases

• Environment Librarians Network
  - Library Catalogues for: CSIRO Wildlife and Ecology Library Services, Environment Australia, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
• INFOTERRA
  - The UNEP's Global Environmental Information Exchange Network. This comprehensive network is designed to stimulate and support the exchange of scientific and technical environmental information within and between nations.
• Web Publications
  - The National Community-Based Water Quality Monitoring Program
  - Preparing a Waterwatch Action Plan
  - Waterwatch Safety Guidelines
  - Australia's International Migratory Bird Agreements
  - A Directory of Important Wetlands in Australia - 1996
• Guide to Libraries & many other resources

 CSIRO - Tropical Argirulture: Community-based Integrated Catchment Management (ICM)

• Comprehensive Longitudinal Study of Catchment Management. This is of relevance to everyone concerned with Catchment Management Planning.
  1. Information about the social, institutional and economic factors that can influence the success or otherwise of community-based catchment management;
  2. Recommendations for planning & implementing community-based ICM natural resource management policy initiatives;
  3. Framework to assist policy makers and catchment managers to evaluate the effectiveness of an ICM process.

 Integrated Resource Management Research

• A Vision for Australia's Water Resources Final Report for UNESCO Contract BL 21-05 for the World Water Council
• Catchment Management in Australia A Critique and a Way Forward Submission to the House of Rep's Standing Committee on Environment & Heritage Catchment Management Inquiry. 1999.
• Catchment Management: A Synopsis of Current Approaches Sydney Water Inquiry Secretariat, 13 October 1998
• Renewed Water Use and Catchment Management: an Integrated Approach. Gatton Water Reuse Seminar, 1999.

 Australian and New Zealand Guidelines for Fresh and Marine Water Quality

• Prepared under the auspices of the National Water Quality Management Strategy (Unfortunately these documents are all in *.pdf format and are therefore somewhat difficult to manipulate )

Online Spatial Databases & Information

Topics in this section:

• The Mathematical Structure of Spatial Databases
• Map Accuracy and Map Overlays
• Primary Interface for Searching every node of the ASDD

 The Mathematical Structure of Spatial Databases
"Deriving Inferences From Ecological Databases That Define A Partition & Contain Sinks Of Information. (Ch 2)"

• All Databases That Specify Location Consist Of A Finite Collection Of Location Elements
• Representing The World With A Finite Collection Of Location Elements
• Mathematical Scales Of Measurement.
• Describing Location Elements Using Members Of Finite Sets
• Establishing Prediction Using Data From A Locationally Linked Database

 Map Accuracy and Map Overlays

• The Australian Geodetic Datum
• The National Map Accuracy Standards
• Accuracy of Map Overalys

 Spatial and Other Databases

• au.riversinfo.org search
• Google Rivers Topics
• AFFA
• ANRO
• ASDD
• AVEL
• CSIRO
• Envalue
• Envt. Aust.
• NLWRA

Helpful Documents

 The Natural Heritage Trust and The National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality

• The National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality is to tackle two of Australia's most serious environmental threats, salinity and water quality.
• The Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments will invest $1.4 billion over the period to 2007-08.
• 21 priority regions will develop comprehensive Regional Natural Resource Management plans which will focus on developing regional solutions for regional problems, and play a valuable role in contributing to the overall national objectives of combating salinity and improving water quality.

 Council of Australian Governments Communique - Water Reform Agenda

• The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) agreed that there is a pressing need to refresh its 1994 water reform agenda to increase the productivity and efficiency of water use, sustain rural and urban communities, and to ensure the health of river and groundwater system. (August 2003)

 Environmental Management Systems

• This submission examines the extent to which internet based information systems may assist in developing a national framework for Environmental Management Systems in Australian agriculture.

 Glossary

• Glossary of terms supplied by the Southern Sydney Catchment Management Board

 NWQMS

• National Water Quality Management Strategy
• National Water Reforms

 NHT

• Natural Heritage Trust - Overview
• River Care, Wetlands, Waterwatch & River Works
• Murray Darling 2001
• Land & Water Resources Audit

 River Heights & Rainfall

• Daily river height
• Rainfall Reporting Stations

 Mailing Lists & Newsletters

• Electronic Lists
• Hard Copy Newsletters

 Just for Kids

• Stream Watch
• Interactive Water Cycle
• Catchment Mobile

 Data Management & Reporting

Online data reporting and management facilities to assist in managing environmental information in a co-ordinated manner. These data management facilities will

• Establish a clients (or users) identity
• Obtain and process a list of client submissions and or data input
• Confirm the clients submissions to them
• Email the clients submissions to the client, appropriate system administrators and other interested parties
• Record the clients submissions on an internet database server

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