Australian governments have addressed water quality issues in the Great Barrier Reef over the last decade. NERP supported a new method for benchmarking and monitoring the health of the overall Reef governance system, which was recognized in the Reef 2050 Long-Term Sustainability Plan. Outputs from this 2015 project are intended to inform five-yearly Outlook reporting.
Use Cases
- Benchmarking governance system health based on the described method for monitoring diverse activities.
- Analyzing the interplay between governance activities like water allocation and ports-planning mentioned in the description.
- Informing long-term sustainability planning and investment decisions for the Great Barrier Reef based on the project's outputs.
Strengths
- Project outputs are designed for integration into five-yearly Outlook reporting.
- The method addresses a recognized gap in the Reef 2050 Long-Term Sustainability Plan.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data files are listed as PNG and HTML, suggesting the primary data may be in report format rather than structured tables.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Collection Method
- A new method for benchmarking and monitoring governance system health, supported by NERP.
- Time Range
- 2015-2015
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-10 14:52:44.334203; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia