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NESP TWQ Project 5.12 - Scoping land use conversion options for high DIN risk, low-lying sugarcane areas in Burdekin and Mackay Whitsunday regions, 2019-2020 (JCU)

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The Reef 2050 Long-Term Sustainability Plan and Reef 2050 Water Quality Improvement Plan 2017-2022 have set ambitious targets for Great Barrier Reef (GBR) water quality improvement. Indeed, Water Quality Improvement Plans (WQIP) for most NRMs in the Great Barrier Reef catchments recognise that complete adoption of sugar cane best management practices will still not be sufficient to achieve the nitrogen load reductions required to meet the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) Water Quality Guidelines. Thus additional options need to be considered transitioning agricultural land to other uses is one of those options. Here we capitalise on existing evaluation frameworks developed in NESP TWQ Project 2.1.2, as we aim to;

identify possible alternate land uses in coastal low-lying cane land, that has a high DIN loss; quantify the economic costs of changing land use, and market mechanisms to incentivise this transition (e.g. Reef Credits); and explore benefits (e.g. farm profitability) of land transition.

This project will better define options land use change across two NRMs that have different climatic conditions, industry groups, water boards and potentially different land use transitions.

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Title NESP TWQ Project 5.12 - Scoping land use conversion options for high DIN risk, low-lying sugarcane areas in Burdekin and Mackay Whitsunday regions, 2019-2020 (JCU)
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/f5808294-e499-4c2b-8c7e-69b748761a50
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
nathan.waltham@jcu.edu.au
Reference Period 01/01/2019 -
Geospatial Coverage Australia
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "NESP TWQ Project 5.12 - Scoping land use conversion options for high DIN risk, low-lying sugarcane areas in Burdekin and Mackay Whitsunday regions, 2019-2020 (JCU)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/nesp-twq-project-5-12-scoping-land-use-conversion-options-for-high-din-risk-low-lying-sugarcane