From Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
JSON format icon JSON RDF format icon RDF ISO19115-3 XML

Transformational Change of Regional Landscapes: Navigating Planetary Limits and Resource Constraints Over the Next Five Decades

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

JSON format icon JSON RDF format icon RDF ISO19115-3 XML

The project brought together a group of Australian researchers and managers with a broad range of expertise to identify current and emerging economies (‘drivers’) affecting regional agricultural landscapes and to suggest beneficial transformational changes for successful adaptation. A key challenge in these landscapes is altering how we use the land for ongoing, viable production while increasing native biodiversity. The group: identified the major historical influences on Australian land use and the current social and economic drivers that are likely to increase in the future

assessed the condition of five agro-climatic regions (adapted from Williams et al., 2002 and Hobbs and McIntyre, 2005) using a Delphi method. A small (4-person) expert panel scored the impact of historical and future scenarios on ten sustainability indicators (biodiversity, water, soil, social capital, built capital, food/fibre, carbon, energy, minerals and cultural). Five regions were chosen: Southern Mediterranean, Northern tropical, Central arid, North-east subtropical, and South-east temperate. This was an iterative process whereby scores were revisited until internal consistency between regions, scenarios, and indicators was achieved

made projections of regional condition under the four global Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) based on van Vuuren et al. (2011)

developed recommendations about land use and management, institutional and policy arrangements and social processes that will assist adaptation towards a values-rich vision of Australia in 2100.

Files and APIs

Additional Info

Field Value
Title Transformational Change of Regional Landscapes: Navigating Planetary Limits and Resource Constraints Over the Next Five Decades
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/195c5408-39bf-4029-8011-994a4ae47136
Contact Point
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
wayne.meyer@adelaide.edu.au
Reference Period 01/01/1788 - 31/12/2013
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        110.25,
        -44.25
      ],
      [
        156.0,
        -44.25
      ],
      [
        156.0,
        -10.0
      ],
      [
        110.25,
        -10.0
      ],
      [
        110.25,
        -44.25
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network "Transformational Change of Regional Landscapes: Navigating Planetary Limits and Resource Constraints Over the Next Five Decades". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/transformational-change-of-regional-landscapes-navigating-planetary-limits-and-resource-constra