Context
For an introduction to ACRIS, see the QSN parent page https://scienceqld.org/2023/11/20/condition-and-trend/.
For its contemporary website (as at 3 October 2021), see Reporting Change in the Rangelands.
This official website states that “Extreme climatic variability in the rangelands makes it difficult to separate change resulting from seasonal climate variation from that driven by human activities. New ground in documenting change and its causes has been broken by the creation of the Australian Collaborative Rangeland Information System (ACRIS), which was first mooted in the 2001 report, Tracking Changes in the Rangelands. The ACRIS represents a new and important contribution to rangeland management and capacity to monitor change through scientifically rigorous data and information.”
This information system has not been active for several years and is not readily available. The DCCEEW rangelands/ACRIS website was last updated on 10 October 2021. Given governments’ piecemeal approaches to the management of rangelands, being manifestly inadequate given the wide-ranging implications of climate change, there is still a powerful need for an extensive rangeland information system.
The ABC published an informative story in 2014: “Acris-rangelands-funding-cut” (live link) or captured version (PDF). It ought to be a public scandal that tools like this suffer budget cuts. However, by that date, some immensely valuable reports had been produced.
ACRIS report 2001: Rangelands – Tracking Changes
175+ page Rangelands – Tracking Changes, September 2001. Bib ID: 419563 Call Number: NMT 4566 ISBN: 0642371148
QSN thanks the National Library of Australia for unearthing this significant document. This material has been provided pursuant to section 49 of the Copyright Act 1968 for the purpose of research or study. The Library has advised that this work is under copyright. No part may be reproduced by any process without the written permission of the Commonwealth of Australia.
Note: As the original file is 283 MB, it has been split into several parts and “optimised” with some loss of crispness. QSN holds a copy of the original file and this can be made available on request.
Summary (2.6 MB)
Pages 1-50, 38 MB (actual pages front cover-34)
Pages 50-100, 49 MB (actual pages numbers 34-84)
Pages 100-150, 43 MB (actual pages numbers 84-134)
Pages 150-196, 29 MB (actual pages numbers 134-175+)
Readme file accompanying the Rangelands Monitoring CD.
ACRIS report 2013: Reporting Change in the Rangelands
The Australian Collaborative Rangelands Information System (ACRIS): Reporting Change in the Rangelands. 2013.
Rangelands: The Heart of Australia – Main report
Reporting Change in the Rangelands – 2007 – WA Information for the National Report
Reporting Change in the Rangelands – 2007 – NT Information for the National Report
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