Gwydir Valley, NSW
The ecosystem services project in the Gwydir Valley of NSW will
be focusing in four main areas:
- to estimate the economic value of the ecosystem benefits associated
with the community's use of water and soil, as well as the ecosystem
services associated with native vegetation and beneficial fauna,
and to identify the recipients of these benefits;
- to estimate the economic value of the environmental impacts
associated with the agro-industries and identify the stakeholders
affected by these impacts, both positive and negative;
- to determine the policy implications to the wider community,
of the valuation of ecosystem services used or affected by agriculture;
and
- to publicise the value of ecosystem services in the Gwydir
among farmers, policy and decision makers and the general community.
This study works on two levels with the first being an overarching
catchment-wide study modelling catchment-wide ecosystem services
and acting as a framework into which subprojects can be fitted.
The second is a series of subprojects including:
- 'Value of ecosystem services underpinning the cotton industry
in the Gwydir catchment'. Focus on the lower Gwydir catchment,
- DWLC - Projects that fall within the Department of Land and
Water Conservation strategic priorities may be re-located to
the Gwydir so that information from those projects can be fed
into the ecosystem services model being developed.
- 'Ecosystem services from native vegetation - salinity and
carbon' Focus on the upper Gwydir catchment.
Project team and contact details:
Collaborators:
Contact Details:
Associate Professor Nick Reid
Ecosystem Management,
School of Rural Science and Natural Resources
University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351
Phone: (02) 6773 2759 Fax: (02) 6773 2769
Email: nrei3@metz.une.edu.au
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