State of the Environment 2011 (SoE 2011)
Independent report to the Australian Government Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
Australian State of the Environment Committee, Authors
(2011 Australian State of the Environment Committee), 2011
Appendixes
Acronyms and abbreviations
- AAD
- Australian Antarctic Division
- AAT
- Australian Antarctic Territory
- AAQ
- Ambient Air Quality (for NEPM)
- AATB
- Assessment of Australian Terrestrial Biodiversity
- ABARES
- Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
- ABS
- Australian Bureau of Statistics
- ACIUCN
- Australian Committee of the International Union for Conservation of Nature
- ACLUMP
- Australian Collaborative Land Use and Management Program
- ACT
- Australian Capital Territory
- ADC forum
- Australian Davos Connection
- ADR
- Australian Design Rules
- AFMA
- Australian Fisheries Management Authority
- AHC
- Australian Heritage Council
- ANZECC
- Australian and New Zealand Environment and Conservation Council
- APFZ
- Antarctic Polar Frontal Zone
- AQI
- Air Quality Index
- ARENA
- Australian Renewable Energy Agency
- ARMCANZ
- Agricultural and Resource Management Council of Australia and New Zealand
- ATSIHP Act
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984
- ASRIS
- Australian Soil Resource Information System
- AUSRIVAS
- Australian River Assessment Scheme
- AVG
- abalone viral ganglioneuritis
- BITRE
- Bureau of Transport, Infrastructure and Regional Economics
- BoM
- Bureau of Meteorology
- BRS
- Bureau of Rural Sciences
- CAPAD
- Collaborative Australian Protected Area Database
- CAR
- comprehensiveness, adequacy and representativeness
- CBD
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- CCAMLR
- Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
- CCP
- Cities for Climate Protection
- CEED
- Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions
- CEFC
- Clean Energy Finance Corporation
- CERF
- Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities (succeeded by NERP)
- CFCs
- chlorofluorocarbons
- COAG
- Council of Australian Governments
- CPRS
- Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- CSG
- coal seam gas
- CSIRO
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
- DAFF
- Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
- DCC
- Department of Climate Change
- DCCEE
- Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency
- DEC
- Department of Environment and Conservation (Western Australia)
- DEH
- Department of Environment and Heritage
- DERM
- Department of Environment and Resource Management (Queensland)
- DEWHA
- Department of Environment, Heritage, Water and the Arts
- DEWR
- Department of the Environment and Water Resources
- DPI
- Department of Primary Industries (NSW, Qld)
- DPIPWE
- (Tasmanian) Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment
- DSEWPaC
- Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
- EA
- Environment Australia
- EEZ
- Economic Exclusion Zone
- ENSO
- El Niño Southern Oscillation
- EPA
- Environment Protection Agency (Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania)
- EPBC (Act)
- Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
- EPHC
- Environment Protection Heritage Council
- ETS
- Emissions Trading Scheme
- ETS
- environmental tobacco smoke
- FARWH
- National Framework for the Assessment of River and Wetland Health
- FTE
- full-time equivalent
- GAB
- Great Artesian Basin
- GABSI
- Great Artesian Basin Sustainability Initiative
- GDP
- Gross Domestic Product
- GBRMP(A)
- Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (Authority)
- GESMF
- Guidelines for the Ecologically Sustainable Management of Fisheries
- GHG
- greenhouse gas
- GL
- gigalitre
- GVP
- Gross Value of Production
- HCOANZ
- Heritage Chairs and Officials of Australia and New Zealand
- IAC
- Indigenous Advisory Committee
- IAG - Salinity
- Independent Audit Group for Salinity
- IBRA
- Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia
- ICLEI
- International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives
- ICOMOS
- International Council on Monuments and Sites
- IGR
- Intergenerational report (2010)
- IMOS
- Integrated Marine Observing System
- IPA
- Indigenous Protected Area
- IPCC
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- IUCN
- International Union for the Conservation of Nature
- IUU (fishing)
- Illegal, unreported or unregulated (fishing)
- JANIS
- Joint ANZECC/MCFFA NFPS Implementation Sub-Committee
- kL
- kilolitre
- LPG
- Liquified Petroleum Gas
- MCFFA
- Ministerial Council on Forestries, Fisheries and Aquaculture
- MDB
- Murray-Darling Basin
- MIG
- Montreal Process Implementation Group
- MIL
- monitoring investigation level (for NEPM)
- MLDRIN
- Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations
- ML
- megalitre
- MPA
- Marine Protected Area
- MTI
- Marine Trophic Index
- MVG
- Major Vegetation Group (of NVIS)
- NAF
- National Adaptation Framework
- NAQD
- National Air Quality Database
- NBAN
- Northern Basin Aboriginal Nations
- NCH
- Natural and cultural heritage (indicators)
- NEPC
- National Environment Protection Council
- NEPM
- National Environment Protection Measures
- NERP
- National Environmental Research Program
- NFPS
- National Forest Policy Statement
- NIMPIS
- National Introduced Marine Pest Information System
- NHT
- National Heritage Trust
- NILS
- National Indigenous Languages Survey
- NLWRA
- National Land and Water Resources Audit
- NPI
- National Pollution Inventory
- NRM
- natural resource management
- NRMMC
- Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council
- NRS
- National Reserve System
- NRSMPA
- National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas
- NSW
- New South Wales
- NT
- Northern Territory
- NVIS
- National Vegetation Information System
- NWI
- National Water Initiative
- NWQMS
- National Water Quality Management Strategy
- ODS
- ozone depleting substances
- OECD
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- pH
- potential of hydrogen (measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution)
- POP
- persistent organic pollutant
- Qld
- Queensland
- RET
- Renewable Energy Target
- RMIT
- Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
- RNE
- Register of the National Estate
- SA
- South Australia
- SCAR
- Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research
- SCEW
- COAG Standing Council on Environment and Water
- SoE
- State of the Environment
- SST
- sea surface temperature
- Tas
- Tasmania
- THC
- Tasmanian Heritage Council
- THR
- Tasmanian Heritage Register
- UNCLOS
- United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea
- UNEP
- United Nations Environment Program
- UNESCO
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
- US EPA
- United States Environmental Protection Agency
- UV, UVB
- ultraviolet radiation
- VAST
- Vegetation Assets, States and Transition
- Vic
- Victoria
- VOC
- volatile organic compound
- WA
- Western Australia
- WMO
- World Meteorological Organization
- WoNS
- Weeds of National Significance
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