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

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 10/01/2026

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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.

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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
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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