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Natural Resource Management – An ABS Perspective

NatStats 2008. Natural Resource Management – An ABS Perspective. Peter Harper Deputy Australian Statistician Population, Labour, Industry and Environment Statistics Group Australian Bureau of Statistics. A framework for thinking about environmental issues. Response. Drivers. Impact.

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Natural Resource Management – An ABS Perspective

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  1. NatStats 2008 Natural Resource Management – An ABS Perspective Peter Harper Deputy Australian Statistician Population, Labour, Industry and Environment Statistics Group Australian Bureau of Statistics

  2. A framework for thinking about environmental issues Response Drivers Impact State Pressures

  3. An example • Driving forces • Population • Pressure • Agricultural activity • State • Land quality -- salinity • Impact • Economic losses • Response • NRM practices

  4. The information base • Physical science is mainly concerned with state, as well as certain pressures and impacts • This is the realm of scientific information • Drivers and many pressures are economic and social in nature • Many impacts are also of a social and economic nature • The ABS is well placed to measure the economic and social dimensions of environmental issues • Many responses are affected through the actions of businesses and people • The ABS is also well placed to measure these

  5. Integration is vital • The physical, social and economic dimensions of environment issues need to be collectively understood, because of the linkages • This requires common frameworks, standards and classifications • For NRM issues, geographic integration is particularly important • Information should be presented in a way that is consistent and coherent

  6. Environmental accounting • An organising framework • Presents comparable information in a systematic framework • Encourages development of comprehensive and consistent data sets over time • Provides a framework from which a range of indicators can be produced

  7. Environmental-economic accounting • An emerging discipline • Enables the relationship between the environment and the economy (and society) to be analysed • Presents environmental data in a way that is consistent with broader economic data, such as the national accounts • Shows the distribution of environmental resources across different parts of the economy • Enables monetary valuations of environmental assets and environment-related flows • Follows international standards to enable international comparability

  8. SEEA 2003 • System of Environmental and Economic Accounting • Provides policy makers with indicators and descriptive statistics to monitor economic-environment interactions as well as a database to identify paths to sustainable development • Four categories of accounts • Flow accounts for pollution, energy and materials • Environmental expenditure and resource management expenditure accounts • Natural resource asset accounts • Non-market flow and environmentally adjusted aggregates • Currently being redeveloped

  9. The ABS tool kit • Surveys of businesses • NRM issues related to industries, including agriculture • Surveys of households • NRM issues related to persons • Land-based surveys • NRM issues related to particular geographic areas • Economic-environmental accounts • Analysis • Classifications and standards • Assistance to other information producing bodies – statistical ‘know-how’

  10. ABS NRM-related products • Water account for Australia 2004-05 • Experimental monetary water account • Experimental estimates of regional water usage • Water Use on Australian Farms • Natural Resource Management on Australian Farms • Farm Management and Climate • Environmental Issues – People’s Views and Practices • Environment expenditure, local government • Salinity on Australian Farms • Land Management: Eurobodalla Shire & Fitzroy and Livingston Shires • Australia’s Environment – Issues and Trends

  11. Agriculture Resource Management Survey 2007-08 • Purpose: to inform Caring for Our Country initiative • Includes issues such as • Details of commodities produced • Land preparation for crops and pastures • Soil condition management practices • Fertiliser use • Water use • Surface water management practices • Practices to protect the environment for conservation purposes • Practices for dealing with adverse seasonal conditions • Results available May 2009

  12. The challenges • Filling information gaps • Unlocking the statistical potential of relevant administrative or regulatory data sets • New collections where needed • Greater integration of disparate data sources • Particularly to understand linkages and consequences • Making information visible, accessible and usable – A National Environment Information System The ABS cannot do these things by itself – it needs to work in partnership with others

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