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Land Use Impact Model (LUIM)

The Land Use Impact Model is used to assess the impacts of land use and land mangement practisces on natural and built assets. Can be used at a farm, regional, state wide or national scale. Outputs from the model are likelihood and riskmaps for land degradation under a land management scenario. DPI use the LUIM to rate and map the risks to soil, land, water, and vegetation under different land uses and practices. It can be used to rate the present risks of current land use. It can also be used to evaluate scenarios of changed land use and practices. The LUIM's primary benefit is in environmental reporting and planning. It is available through DPI to any person or authority wishing to use it for research or planning purposes.

Guidelines for evaluating...aspects of Urban Stormwater Management Measures to improve waterway health

These guidelines primarily aim to provide urban stormwater managers with a step-wise process and supporting material to assess the merits of proposed stormwater management measures to improve waterway health within the context of the 'triple bottom line', that is, the financial, ecological and social aspects of the proposed measures are systematically assessed to identify the option with the greatest net benefit. The process outlined in the guidelines represents a Multiple Objective Decision Support System (MODSS) that uses multi criteria analysis (MCA) techniques. The procedure for undertaking a triple bottom line assessment is outlined in detail. The guidelines allow users to choose one of three levels of assessment which are commensurate with the scale, complexity and potential impact of the project. This approach has been taken to allow stormwater managers to find the appropriate balance between the degree of rigour undertaken in the assessment and the resources needed to undertake the assessment.

Biocondition

The aim of the BioCondition assessment toolkit is to provide a framework that provides a measure of how well a terrestrial ecosystem is functioning for the maintenance of biodiversity values. BioCondition is based on the pioneering work of Parkes et al. (2003) who developed the ‘Habitat Hectares’ assessment framework in Victoria, and the ‘BioMetric’ assessment toolkit in NSW (Oliver and Parkes 2003; Gibbons et al. 2005)

Betting on rain - managing seasonal risk in western NSW

The application is expected to assist in making fine scale adjustments to both tactical and strategic stock decisions to better align feed demand with potential feed supply on a seasonal scale. While primarily focussed on sheep, it has application to cattle and some potential to influence opportunity cropping decisions.

Australian River Assessment System (AUSRIVAS)

AUSRIVAS (Australian River Assessment System) is a rapid prediction system used to assess the biological health of Australian rivers. AUSRIVAS has two streams, Bioassessment and Physical assessment. These correspond with rapid biological assessment protocols and rapid geomorphic, physical and chemical assessment protocols respectively.

Aquatic Biodiversity Assessment and mapping method (AquaBAMM)

Queensland Aquatic Conservation Assessments (ACA) using the AquaBAMM provide decision support that allows informed decision making with respect to conservation or ecological values of natural aquatic ecosystems from a non-social and non-economic perspective.