Australian Collaborative Rangelands Information System (ACRIS)
Extreme climatic variability in the rangelands makes it difficult to separate change resulting from seasonal climate variation from that driven by human activities. New ground in documenting change and its causes has been broken by the creation of the Australian Collaborative Rangeland Information System (ACRIS), which was first mooted in the 2001 report, Tracking Changes in the Rangelands . The ACRIS represents a new and important contribution to rangeland management and capacity to monitor change through scientifically rigorous data and information.
Rangelands 2008-Taking the Pulse
The data and information produced and interpreted by the ACRIS for the period 1992 to 2005, has been brought together in the report Rangelands 2008-Taking the Pulse, which documents change, as distinct from state, in the rangelands at a national and regional scale.
ACRIS Management Committee
The Australian Collaborative Rangeland Information System (ACRIS) is a coordinating mechanism that collates rangeland information from state, Northern Territory and Australian Government agencies and other sources. The ACRIS Management Committee has representatives of Australian, state and territory governments and a management unit co-located with the Desert Knowledge CRC. ACRIS reports to the Audit Advisory Council on issues of information, and Natural Resource Programs and Policy Committee on issues of policy.
Members of the ACRIS Management Committee
Australian Government
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
CSIRO
Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre
New South Wales
Department of Environment and Climate Change
Queensland
Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries
Department of Natural Resources and Water
Environmental Protection Agency
Northern Territory
Department of Natural Resources, Environment and the Arts
Western Australia
Department of Agriculture and Food
Department of Environment and Conservation
South Australia
Department of Water, Land and Biodiversity Conservation
Department for Environment and Heritage
Contact
Gary Bastin
ACRIS Management Unit
CSIRO, PO Box 2111
Alice Springs NT 0871
Telephone: 08 89507137
Email: Gary.Bastin@csiro.au
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