Australian Coastal Management Plans with Geographic Extents

Coastal Plans Additional Plans indicates the geographic extent covered by coastal management reports for Australia. The dataset was created for the DSE Future Coasts 'Spatially Enabling Coastal Assets' (SECAP) project in 2011/12 by the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action. It contains attributes for report titles, years, identifiers, and links, with geographic extents derived from administrative boundaries or specific study areas.

Use Cases

• Mapping the spatial coverage of coastal management policies based on the described geographic extents.
• Linking policy documents to specific administrative areas like local government or catchment management authorities.
• Analyzing the temporal distribution of coastal planning efforts based on the report year attribute.
• Creating a reference catalog for coastal studies using the provided report identifiers and direct links.

Strengths

• Includes direct links to source reports and website pages for verification.
• Geographic extents were manually reviewed and categorized based on report coverage.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The core data collection was initiated over a decade ago (2011/12).

Provenance

Source

Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (data_gov_au)

Collection Method

Plans were reviewed and categorized; geographic extents were captured by applying nominal buffers to administrative units or using clear study area boundaries.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-09 00:03:04.491928; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia (coastal areas)