NESP TWQ Project 2.3.3 - Building Indigenous livelihood and comanagement opportunities in

Northern Great Barrier Reef data from a project supporting Indigenous co-management and livelihoods by scoping culturally-appropriate ecosystem services products focused on water quality. The project was conducted by CSIRO and collaborators between 2016 and 2017. It aimed to develop innovative water quality ecosystem service products suitable for the region's geographic, demographic, and market conditions.

Use Cases

• Scoping investor demand for water quality ecosystem services based on the project's market analysis.
• Evaluating international examples of nutrient offsets and watershed ecosystem services as described in the project objectives.
• Improving wetland protection and co-management governance capability based on the project's stated goals.

Strengths

• Project has a defined temporal scope from 2016 to 2017.
• Focuses on a specific geographic region: the northern Great Barrier Reef.
• Aims to leverage existing ecosystem service-based livelihood opportunities, suggesting a practical application focus.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Project-based research and scoping activities.

Time Range

2016-2017

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-10 13:49:10.000053; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia