Climate Change, Catchments and Forestry
Climate change, catchment, land management and forestry sector experience includes R & D needs analysis, consultation, identification of options, option costing, economic evaluation and plan documentation. Forestry projects have included bioregion profiling and the valuation of timber resources. Representative projects are:
- Carbon trading, climate change and alternative energy options for Australian agriculture
- Program Logic and Metrics to Measure Changes in Landholder Productivity, NSW Natural Resources Commission
- Economic cost to landholders clearing for cropping restrictions
- Floodplain management plans - review of GIS data and determination of landholder impacts
- Environmental Cement - Regulatory Changes Required to Increase Limestone Content
- Hawksbury-Nepean catchment economic values for NSW Office of Environment and Heritage
- Peri-urban issues - scoping of research needs
- Socio-economic Impact Assessment of Native Vegetation Management Plan, Richmond Region
- Gross costings for the implementation of the Lachlan and Central West Catchment Management Boards Salinity Action Plans
- Landholder Surveys for Upper Billabong Land and Water Management Plan
- Land and Water Management Plan and Compensation Package Design - Landholders affected by Salinity Far South Western NSW
- Economic Incentives for Conservation and Forest Development, Brigalow and Nandewar Bioregions
- Economic and Social Profiling for Regional Forestry Agreements - Eden, Southern, Upper and Lower North East
- Independent valuation of timber quota using alternative valuation techniques
- Rangeland Management Action Plan - Consultation and economics
- Land and Water Management Plan Economics - Denimein, Wakool and Berriquin
- Property Management Plan for Rookwood Cemetery
- Economic Values of Natural Resources and Natural Environments on the NSW Coast