Recommended Assets and Indicators for Natural Resource Management
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
April 2008
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The National Assets and Indicators for Natural Resource Management (NRM) provided in this document at Table 1 are for use by those organisations, groups and individuals who are implementing national NRM programs. This document should be used in conjunction with the National Natural Resource Management MERI Framework.
This Recommended National Assets and Indicators document, along with the National Natural Resource Management MERI Framework, replaces the National Standards and Targets Framework, 2003. This is a living document with indicative rather than static social and biophysical asset classes, assets and indicators that will change over time as new indicators are developed and as different indicators are required for different contexts. The National Land and Water Resources Audit (NLWRA) has continued the on-going development of the indicators, originally developed by the Monitoring and Evaluation Working Group. Protocols have also been developed for some of the indicators as outlined on the NLWRA web site
National indicators for asset condition will assist in setting targets in program plans and provide standard approaches to measurement. Indicators should be selected according to the principles of cost, simplicity, consistency and practicality as well as their capacity to deliver information across the full jurisdictional scale. Indicators at the area of investment are necessary for monitoring the results of a specific activity. Indicators can be a combination of agreed national indicators and surrogate indicators. 'Surrogate indicators' are measures developed to monitor the performance of an activity where asset condition monitoring is non-existent or not appropriate.
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