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Environmental Information Initiatives
Stocktake and Assessment
Perth Workshop
30th April 2009
Session 1
• Welcome and introduction
Workshop objectives
• Engage with key stakeholders across relevant state agencies.
• Familiarise key stakeholders with the project.
• Seek input from key stakeholders to:
• Identify the full range of state environmental information
initiatives relevant to the project, and
• Identify key linkages between initiatives, gaps and issues for
consideration in the analysis of environmental information
initiatives.
Project context
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NRPPC has requested the Australian Government progress the
development of a national environmental information system (NEIS)
to coordinate the collection, analysis, synthesis and delivery of
environmental information.
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To inform this process, DEWHA agreed to undertake a stocktake and
assessment of environmental information initiatives across
Australian, State and Territory jurisdictions.
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The stocktake and assessment aims to obtain a clear, up-to-date
picture of the:
• range of initiatives across jurisdictions, including linkages among
them, and
• results of previous initiatives in coordinating the collection, analysis
and delivery of environmental information.
Vision
• A NEIS should build on existing environmental information initiatives
• provide relevant, consistent, accurate and timely data at national to
regional levels
• streamline information collection and dissemination processes
• inform rational and prioritised information collection and gap filling
• support prioritisation of investment across environmental info themes
• allow for value adding by enabling easy access and linking to available
information, including socio-economic and other information sources
• enhance the national coordination of environmental information
• overall, equip Australia with comprehensive and robust environmental
information and analytical capability which will underpin present day
decision making on sound management of the environment and natural
resources.
Project scope
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Environmental information initiatives are those which contribute to a
state or national application, or provide capabilities at those levels.
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Focus is on initiatives of government organisations.
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Environment refers to: biological, meteorological and atmospheric
systems, ocean, water and land systems, and their interaction with
human (social & economic) systems including the built environment.
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Environmental information includes taxonomic, spatial, availability,
condition and trend, measurement and monitoring information.
Project key steps and timing
Key project steps
Key outputs and timing
Study 1: Document and assess the range of
environmental information initiatives and the links
among them.
Delivery of preliminary report early May.
Study 2: Critical analysis of previous initiatives in
coordinating the collection, analysis, synthesis and
delivery of environmental information.
Delivery of draft report end July.
Series of consultation workshops with Australian,
State and Territory jurisdictions.
Information to inform both Study 1 and
Study 2. Completed by end April.
Incorporation of feedback and preparation of final
report based on Study 1 and 2.
Delivery of final report by mid August.
Project method – analytical framework
• Capture information on each initiative:
• Application - what is environmental information used for now
and in the future?
• Content - what information do the initiatives cover?
• Management - how is environmental information funded and
managed?
Analytical framework
Investment and
endurance
Axis 1: Applications
Stakeholders &
c’ties of practice
Information products
Purpose and
application
Axis 3: Management
Data management
Data sources
Sponsoring
agency/program
Key
theme(s)
Geographical
coverage/extent
Axis 2: Content
Entities
and
attributes
Resolution
and
accuracy
Stocktake examples
• Examples of national environmental information initiatives:
• National Pollution Inventory
• Online System for Comprehensive Activity Reporting
• State of the Environment Reporting
• NLWRA (comprised of sub-initiatives)
• Sustainable Rivers Audit
• Murray Darling Basin Authority
• The Australian Water Resources Information System
• National Elevation Data Framework
• Environmental Resources Information Network (comprised
of sub-initiatives)
• Reef Atlas
WA stocktake examples
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Indian Ocean Climate Initiative (IOCI)
Shared Landform Information Platform (SLIP)
State Land Information Capture Program (SLICP)
WA Herbicide Resistance Initiative (WAHRI)
WA coastal waterways geomorphic habitat mapping
Native vegetation condition – Western Australia
Distribution of rare and threatened flora, fauna and ecological
communities
• Status and Trends in Suspended solids/turbidity of surface
waters
• Contaminated sites – Western Australia
Session 3: Current situation
• OBJECTIVE: to identify the suite of environmental information
initiatives, and identify selected features of each initiative.
• OUTPUTS
• List of state initiatives and sponsors.
• Identify linkages with other initiatives, especially national.
Session 4: Issues and Assessment
• OBJECTIVE: to identify the major gaps and opportunities for
improvement across the initiatives identified in Session 3.
• OUTPUTS
• Major gaps in the current suite of initiatives and reasons
why, and
• Opportunities for improving initiatives (specific to individual
initiatives or general issues).
Priorities from Canberra Workshop
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Need for leadership
Use and compliance with standards and common methods
Need to improve primary data
Focus investment to fill gaps, reduce duplication and meet key
national priorities
Continuity of data collection
Need to identify key drivers for environmental information
Resolve needs of individual drivers and information
infrastructure to support many needs
Need for national custodians and coordination
Link environmental information to the economy