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NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
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Land management within capability monitoring MER 2008: final result map

This ESRI shapefile with attribute table comprises final results for the Land Management within Capability (LMwC) theme from the 2008-2009 NSW Monitoring Evaluation and Reporting program. The LMwC evaluation system provides an indication the extent to which land is being managed within its capability by comparing the land & soil capability (LSC) ratings for each site with a measure of the potential impact of land management actions. It considers eight different land management hazards including sheet erosion, gully erosion, wind erosion, acidification, organic carbon decline, structural decline, salinity/waterlogging and acid sulfate soils. The shapefile gives results for 95 Soil Monitoring Units (SMUs) including (i) the overall LMwC index, (ii) the worst rated hazard and its index, and (iii) the worst rated hazard which is rated poor or worse and therefore of concern. Full results are presented and discussed in the Technical Report: OEH (2014), Soil condition and land management in NSW: final results from the 2008-09 monitoring evaluation and reporting program, http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/research-and-publications/publications-search/soil-condition-and-land-management-in-new-south-wales

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Language English
Edition Version 2 (2012)
Purpose For use by State government and regional catchment bodies for improved soil and land management.
Frequency of change Not planned
Keywords land,soil,LAND-Use,AGRICULTURE
Field of Research (optional) Land Capability and Soil Degradation,soil science,Agricultural Land Management,Environmental Monitoring
Metadata Date 2016-07-20
Date of Asset Creation 2012-06-30
Date of Asset Revision 2015-07-08
Date of Asset Publication 2016-07-20
License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Vector representation
Record 1
Object type
Complex
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Geospatial Topic Environment
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Dataset extent
Temporal Coverage From 2008-01-04 - 2009-01-07
Datum GDA94 Geographic (Lat\Long)
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Attribution NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water asserts the right to be attributed as author of the original material in the following manner: "© State Government of NSW and NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water 2016"