This theme focusses on research that will help decision makers assess and plan for development in northern Australia in ways that will ensure that development is undertaken minimises the risks to the regions environmental resources.
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This theme recognises that large areas of northern Australia are unlikely to be suitable for intensive development, but these areas still face major threats to environmental resources and research can help to improve how we manage and respond to those threats.
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This theme is focussed on developing practical approaches to manage threatened species and threatening processes in northern Australia.
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This theme recognises that an important part of the management of environmental resources is being able to monitor changes and trends in their condition.
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Aboriginal people own and manage vast parts of northern Australia. Recent increases in the National Reserve System are largely due to the inclusion of new Indigenous Protected Areas and northern Australia has also seen a rapid expansion of the Indigenous ranger movement. Research is needed to help support the management of IPA’s and Indigenous natural resource management more broadly.
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This theme recognises that economic contribution of environmental resources across northern Australia is important for supporting effective policy and planning decisions.
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