NESP MaC 5.10: Australian Marine Parks Socio-Ecological Survey Data

NESP Marine and Coastal Hub Project 5.10 aims to improve socio-ecological understanding for managing 60 Australian Marine Parks covering 3.8 million square kilometres. The project will redesign and conduct national surveys on public knowledge, attitudes, and practices, with outputs including aggregated survey responses and a final technical report. The work supports the statutory review of management plans scheduled for 2028.

Use Cases

• Tracking changes in public awareness and attitudes towards marine parks based on repeated national surveys.
• Supporting the review of Australian Marine Park management plans based on updated socio-economic benchmarks.
• Integrating socio-economic data with natural values data for network-scale management effectiveness reporting.
• Analyzing recreational user patterns in marine parks based on boat ramp survey data.

Strengths

• Focuses on 60 Australian Marine Parks covering 43% of Australian waters (3.8 million sq km).
• Builds upon a 2019/20 benchmark to estimate changes for a 2028 statutory review.
• Surveys target nine locations across multiple marine park networks.

Limitations

• No public data outputs will be generated; only aggregated outputs are available.
• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown.
• Data freshness should be verified as the last metadata update is 2026-04-18.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network, National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal Hub.

Collection Method

Redesigned national knowledge, attitudes and practice (KAP) surveys, including boat ramp and general public surveys.

Time Range

Project references a 2019/20 benchmark and supports a review scheduled for 2028.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-18 19:31:45.275839; freshness should be verified

Geography

Australian Marine Parks, including the Coral Sea, North, North-west, South-west, South-east and Temperate East networks.