Interim marine and coastal regionalisation for Australia : an ecosystem-based classification for marine and coastal environments /
This report documents the development of IMCRA and discusses how it may be used as a regional planning framework for conservation and sustainable resource use in coastal and marine environments. Several caveats and conditions are presented to assist users identify appropriate uses. IMCRA has been de...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Canberra :
Environment Australia,
1998.
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| Online Access: | http://www.deh.gov.au/coasts/mpa/nrsmpa/pubs/imcra.pdf |
| Summary: | This report documents the development of IMCRA and discusses how it may be used as a regional planning framework for conservation and sustainable resource use in coastal and marine environments. Several caveats and conditions are presented to assist users identify appropriate uses. IMCRA has been developed through the collaborative efforts of State, Northern Territory and Commonwealth marine management and research agencies. Work began in 1992 with the Commonwealth Government providing support r the development of a range of biogeographic projects in the States and Northern Territory. In 1995 work began on the development of regionalisation projects for Commonwealth waters. Two technical working groups were established to develop the required regionalisations. The inshore waters working group comprised Northern Territory and State marine management and research agencies and the Biodiversity Group, Environment Australia. The offshore waters working group was known as the Commonwealth Technical Consortium, and comprised relevant Commonwealth research agencies. To ensure information exchange and consistency of approaches between the two working groups, representatives from the two groups participated in meetings of both working groups. Progress reports from these two working groups presented to the Task Force on Marine Protected Areas which, in turn, provided reports to the ANZECC Standing Committee on,Conservation (SCC). IMCRA was developed in three stages: a meso-scale regionalisation was developed by the inshore waters working group, which generally extends from the coastline to the limit of the state territorial waters; various provincial to meso-scale regionalisation products were developed by the offshore waters working group, which generally extended to the limit of the Australian Exclusive Economic Zone (or EEZ); and a synthesis of the regionalisations developed by the inshore and offshore waters working groups into several integrated biogeographic region al is ations at different scales. IMCRA provides the first layer in a broad planning framework in which more detailed information on ecosystems must be used to assist decision-making within a region. Additional work will allow the refinement of IMCRA- Furthermore, the use of IMCRA as a planning framework for the development of the National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas will require additional information on conservation planning attributes for each region.importance of. |
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| Item Description: | "June 1998" "Version 3.3" "ANZECC" --Cover. |
| Physical Description: | vii, 104 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm. Also available at: http://www.deh.gov.au/coasts/mpa/nrsmpa/pubs/imcra.pdf. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographic references. |
| ISBN: | 0642545456 |