Industries, Land Use and Water Quality in the Great Barrier Reef Catchment

CONTENTS

Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Foreword, Terms of reference, Contents, Acknowledgments, Abbreviations and explanations, Glossary, Key points ,Overview

PART I THE CONTEXT

1 Introduction
1.1 The Great Barrier Reef and its catchments
1.2 Study background
1.3 Research methods
1.4 Structure of analysis

2 Water quality in the GBR lagoon
2.1 Measuring water quality in the GBR lagoon
2.2 Water quality changes in the GBR lagoon
2.3 Causes of water quality changes
2.4 Impacts of water quality changes on the GBR ecosystem
2.5 Summing up

3 Government policies and programs
3.1 Managing water quality in the GBR lagoon
3.2 Managing water quality in Queensland catchments and coastal waters
3.3 Policies with unintended water quality impacts
3.4 Funding vehicles for MOU actions
3.5 Summing up

4 Economic and social importance of the main industries
4.1 Defining the GBR lagoon and catchment regions
4.2 Indicators of economic and social importance
4.3 National and state importance
4.4 Importance of individual industries to the GBR lagoon and catchment
4.5 Distribution of output and employment across GBR regions
4.6 Future economic importance of industries
4.7 Summing up

5 Current management practices
5.1 Beef
5.2 Horticulture
5.3 Sugar cane
5.4 Other agricultural industries
5.5 Concluding comments

PART II POLICY OPTIONS

6 Analytical approach
6.1 Nature of the problem
6.2 Existing policy approaches
6.3 Assessing abatement options

7 Prioritising threats
7.1 Approach used to prioritise threats
7.2 Preliminary evidence

8 Understanding land users’ capacity for change
8.1 The diversity of land users and properties
8.2 Understanding land users’ decision processes
8.3 Characteristics of sustainable farming practices
8.4 Characteristics of land users
8.5 Conclusions

9 Abatement options
9.1 Developing abatement options
9.2 Soil erosion
9.3 Overuse/misuse of fertilisers and chemicals
9.4 Concluding comments

10 Roles and responsibilities
10.1 Managing diffuse pollution
10.2 Issues in developing a new approach
10.3 Concluding comments

APPENDICES

A Submissions received

B Persons and organisations visited

C Memorandum of Understanding

D CRC Reef consensus statement

E Industry data

F Assistance estimates

G Projections of future economic importance

H Management practices in other industries

References