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Delivering Sustainability through Risk Management - Summary Report

This report summarise the outputs and key lessons from National Program for Sustainable Irrigation (NPSI) funded project UMO45 Delivering Sustainability through Risk Management, which was designed to achieve an improved level of adoption of ecological risk assessment and risk management methods in the Australian irrigation industry and in regulatory agencies. Adoption of risk-based approaches is considered to be vital if the industry is to achieve its (more)...

  • Publication
  • Report
  • 2006
  • Product code PN21967
  • National Program for Sustainable Irrigation
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A Bayesian network model for predicting macroinvertebrate community diversity in the lower Loddon River

Report number 3

This report is the third in a series of five produced by NPSI project UMO45 Delivering Sustainability through Risk Management. Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) is a formal process for determining the risk posed by hazards (stressors, threats) to the health of ecosystems. ERA evolved from the need to develop processes that better deal with the complexity of aquatic ecosystems. That is, the (more)...

  • Publication
  • Report
  • 2006
  • Product code PN21963
  • National Program for Sustainable Irrigation
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Prospects for adoption of ecological risk assessment by the Australian irrigation industry - Report 1

Although Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) can provide a basis for making the vague tenets of sustainability operationally meaningful, the capacity for its adoption among irrigation industries and stakeholders is unproven. This report details insights in the adoption process afforded through delivery of nine ERA awareness workshops delivered in irrigation regions throughout Australia.

  • Publication
  • Report
  • 2006
  • Product code PN21959
  • National Program for Sustainable Irrigation
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