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SoE 2011 – Heritage chapter overview

This presentation is one of a series of Australia State of the Environment 2011 (SoE 2011) presentations given by SoE Committee members and departmental staff following the release of the SoE 201.

This material was developed to be delivered as part of an oral presentation. The full report should be referred to for understanding the context of this information.

For more information please refer to:http://www.environment.gov.auOr contact the SoE team via email:[email protected]

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Photo: Purnululu National Park, World Heritage Area. Image copyright Rod Hartvigsen, Murranji Photography.Presentation – Heritage chapter overview

Photo A

erial view of the P

ilbara by Andrew

Griffiths - Lensaloft

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State of the Environment reporting

A report must be tabled in Parliament every five years

Definition of ‘environment’ is very broad

No current regulations regarding scope, content or process

Lessons from previous reports and directives for 2011

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Purpose of SoE 2011

Provide relevant and useful information on environmental

issues to the public and decision-makers...

… to raise awareness and support more informed

environmental management decisions …

… leading to more sustainable use and effective

conservation of environmental assets.

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SoE 2011 Products

Full report

With summary and 17 headlines

Nine theme chapters – each with key findings

Chapter on future reporting

In-Brief

Online materials

Commissioned reports

Workshop reports

Additional tables and figures

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2011 State of the Environment Committee

Chair: Tom Hatton (Director, CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country)

Members:

Steven Cork (independent research ecologist and futurist)

Peter Harper (Deputy Australian Statistician)

Rob Joy (School of Global Studies, Social Science & Planning, RMIT)

Peter Kanowski (Fenner School of Environment & Society, ANU)

Richard Mackay (heritage specialist, Godden Mackay Logan)

Neil McKenzie (Chief, CSIRO Land and Water)

Trevor Ward (independent marine and fisheries ecologist)

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Process of preparing SoE 2011

Structure determined in consultation with department,

committee and target audience

Information gaps identified

Data collection phase - including commissioned

research, consultations and workshops

Completion of draft chapters

Peer review (47+ reviewers of chapters and supplementary materials)

Editing and design

Development of supplementary products

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Key Findings of SOE 2011

Our environment is a national issue requiring national leadership and action.

Effective environmental management requires adequate information.

Australians cannot afford to see themselves as separate from the environment.

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Photo: Purnululu National Park, World Heritage Area. Image copyright Rod Hartvigsen, Murranji Photography.

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Approach to conducting assessments and presenting results

DPSIR framework as basis+ report cards for condition, pressures and

management effectiveness+ discussion of resilience+ risk assessment+ outlooksPresented in a thematic structure

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Assessment summaries in the report

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Key findings – Drivers of environmental change

The principal drivers of Australia’s environment—and its future

condition—are climate variability and change, population growth

and economic growth.

Climate variability and climate change have a direct impact on the

condition of Australia’s environment.

Australia’s exposure to climate change is dependent on global

greenhouse gas emissions.

It is likely that we are already seeing the effects of climate change

in Australia.

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Key findings – Drivers of environmental change

The Australian economy is projected to grow by 2.7% per year

until 2050.

Under the base scenario, Australia’s population of 22.2 million

people in 2010 is projected to grow to 35.9 million by 2050.

We have opportunities to decouple population and economic

growth from pressure on our environment.

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Key findings – Heritage

Our extraordinary and diverse natural and cultural heritage generally

remains in good condition.

Australia is recognised internationally for leadership in heritage

management.

Our heritage is being threatened by natural and human processes and a

lack of public sector resourcing that does not reflect the true value of

heritage to the Australian community.

Improvement will require change.

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State and trends

Our extraordinary and diverse natural and cultural heritage generally

remains in good condition, but threatened by factors such as fire,

erosion, invasive species, use and development impacts.

More than half of Australia’s bioregions have at least 10% of their area

within reserved lands – but a larger percentage may be appropriate.

Interest in Indigenous heritage and involvement of Indigenous people

have increased, but incremental destruction continues.

Historic heritage is generally in good condition, but listing processes are

erratic.

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Number of places added to National Heritage List, 2005-06 to 2010-11

Source: Heritage Division, Australian Government Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, 2011

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Number of places added to Commonwealth Heritage List, 2005-06 to 2010-11

Source: Heritage Division, Australian Government Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, 2011

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Number of heritage places listed by local government area

Source: Australian Government Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, 2011, using data from state and territory heritage agencies (2011) for places listed by local government area; PSMA Australia Ltd (2010) local government area boundaries; Australian Bureau of Statistics

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Number of heritage places listed per hundred people by local government area

Source: Australian Government Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, 2011, using data from state and territory heritage agencies (2011) for places listed by local government area; PSMA Australia Ltd (2010) local government area boundaries; Australian Bureau of Statistics

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National Reserve System – Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia regional protection level

Source: Australian Government Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities; Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD) (2008) and Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia (IBRA 6.1) (2005) compiled by the Environmental Resources Information Network, Australian Government Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (2010) with data provided by state and territory land management agencies; Australian Coastline and State Borders 1:100 000 (1990), Geoscience Australia

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Proposed new priorities for bioregions, based on indicative combined gap for ecosystems and EPBC-listed species, expressed as a percentage of bioregion area

Source: Taylor et al. Building nature’s safety net 2011: the state of protected areas for Australia’s ecosystems and wildlife. Sydney: WWF – Australia, 2011.

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Changes in integrity and condition of historic heritage places, 2000-11

Source: Pearson & Marshall, Study of condition and integrity of historic heritage places for the 2011 State of the Environment report. Report prepared for SEWPaC, 2011.

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Pressures affecting heritage

Some issues, like the legacy of land clearing cannot be readily

addressed; others such as climate change impact need short-term

response even if the cause cannot be removed.

Natural: invasive species, habitat loss, land use conflict and tension

between economic and conservation values of land.

Indigenous: inadequate documentation, loss of knowledge / tradition and

incremental destruction.

Historic: pressures for redevelopment and population shifts – reduced

resources in rural areas and increased pressure in urban and coastal

areas.

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Management effectiveness

Australia is recognised internationally for heritage management.

Identification processes are erratic and inconsistent – in particular, there

is no national picture for Indigenous heritage.

Heritage places in public ownership are often supported by well-prepared

management plans.

Reactive, linear development consent processes militate against heritage.

Some building codes and standards (e.g. green star) are problematic.

Resources available for heritage conservation are declining in real terms.

Public sector resourcing does not reflect the true value of heritage to the

Australian community.

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Importance of preserving natural icons and landmarks

Source: Deakin University, National survey of public attitudes to Australian heritage. Unpublished report to SEWPaC, 2011

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Importance of preserving human-made icons and landmarks

Source: Deakin University, National survey of public attitudes to Australian heritage. Unpublished report to SEWPaC, 2011

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Productivity Commission

“For many private owners, the current use and enjoyment of their property are consistent

with, indeed require, maintaining its heritage attributes”

“…..the wider cultural benefits of the place are provided to their community with little

added costs, apart from the extra administrative cost involved with government

identification, assessment and listing”

Private owners of heritage places provide public “goods” but this

contribution is not reflected in available incentives.

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Green star ratings

Sustainability and embodied energy………….

No points for heritage conservation

“A refurbished building will not have new concrete poured and therefore cannot achieve the credit for use of recycled content in structural concrete”.

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EPBC Act Enforcement:

Burrup Peninsula National Heritage Place

A petroglyph in the immediate vicinity of the area affected by clearing, blasting and quarrying works, Dampier Archipelago National Heritage Place, showing a small, complex, engraved panel (arrowed) among disturbed boulders, and an engraved lizard visible on the right-hand side (see photo at right)

Photos by Jo McDonald, Jo McDonald Cultural Heritage Management

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Applications and ministerial declarations under each section of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984 as at 9 August 2011

Source: Australian Government Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, 2011

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Risks

Climate change impacts: extreme weather, fires, habitat loss and

invasive species.

Incremental loss through informed site-specific consent – in the absence

of adequate knowledge about the total extent of the heritage resource.

Inadequate resourcing – limited funding, lack of incentives, neglect and

loss of specialist heritage trade skills.

Development and resource extraction projects – at both a landscape and

individual site scale.

Lack of national leadership.

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Membership of the International Council on Monuments and Sites, Australia, 2006-10

Source: Australia ICOMOS

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National Trust membership, 2005-09

Source: Australian Council of National Trusts

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Professional historic heritage training courses offered in Australia (degree, diploma, certificate and short courses), 2010

Source: Heritage Trades and Professional Training Project. Report to Heritage Chairs of Australia and New Zealand. Godden

Mackay Logan Pty Ltd, August 2010.

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Heritage trades training

Conservation of the vast array of culturally significant buildings and

places in Australia relies on a body of heritage professionals and

tradespeople with relevant specialist skills.

These skills are acquired through both formal and ‘on the job’ training.

The number of practitioners with these skills has declined in recent years

and the population of appropriately skilled practitioners is ageing–leading

to a looming crisis in cultural heritage conservation.

Source: Heritage Trades and Professional Training Project. Report to Heritage Chairs of Australia and New Zealand. Godden

Mackay Logan Pty Ltd, August 2010.

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Outlook for heritage

The outlook for Australia’s heritage depends on government leadership in

two key areas:

Undertaking thorough assessments that lead to comprehensive

natural and cultural inventories and truly representative areas of

protected land; and

Changing management paradigms and resource allocation in

response to emerging threats – responding strategically, based on

integrated use of traditional and scientific knowledge.

Improvement will require change.

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Photo: Purnululu National Park, World Heritage Area. Image copyright Rod Hartvigsen, Murranji Photography.

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SOE 2011 - 17 headlines

Earth is warming, and it is likely that we are already seeing the effects of climate

change in Australia. As the driest inhabitable continent, Australia is particularly

vulnerable to climate change.

Early action by Australia to reduce emissions and to deploy targeted adaptation

strategies will be less costly than delayed action.

Ambient air quality and air pollution management in Australia’s urban centres are

generally good, but the impact of urban air quality on health is still a matter of

serious concern

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SOE 2011 - 17 headlines (continued)

Pressures of past human activities and recent droughts are affecting our inland

water systems.

Meeting our water needs will be a critical challenge.

Australia’s land environment is threatened by widespread pressures.

Threats to our soil, including acidification, erosion and the loss of soil carbon, will

increasingly affect Australia’s agriculture unless carefully managed.

The overall condition of the Australian marine environment is good, but integrated

management will be key to the future conservation of our ocean resources.

The ocean climate is changing and we will need to adapt.

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SOE 2011 - 17 headlines (continued)

The Antarctic environment is showing clear signs of climate change, which is likely

to have profound effects on Antarctic species and ecosystems.

Our unique biodiversity is in decline, and new approaches will be needed to

prevent accelerating decline in many species.

Our extraordinary and diverse natural and cultural heritage is currently in good

condition, but is threatened by natural and human processes, and a lack of public

sector resourcing.

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SOE 2011 - 17 headlines (continued)

Australia’s built environment faces many pressures and consumes significant

natural resources, although consumption may be slowing.

Coastal regions bring together many of the issues affecting other parts of the

environment, and coordinated management will be needed to mitigate pressures.

Our environment is a national issue requiring national leadership and action.

Effective environmental management requires adequate information.

Australians cannot afford to see themselves as separate from the environment.

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