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Land Use and Management

Land use and land management practices have a major impact on Australia’s natural resources including water, soil, nutrients, plants and animals. Land use information can be used to develop solutions for natural resource management issues such as salinity and water quality.

BRS is working together with State agency partners and other organisations through the Australian Collaborative Land Use Mapping Program (ACLUMP) to produce consistent land use and land management practices information for Australia using nationally agreed methods.

ACLUMP has produced ‘Land Use Mapping for Australia’, an information hub to assist land managers, planners and others who need to know about land use data and information for Australia. It is available as a website (www.brs.gov.au/landuse) or by DVD*. Both versions are the same, except that the DVD* contains land use data that can be viewed and used in GIS software packages. 
*Land use mapping DVD is no longer available.

‘Land Use Mapping for Australia’ contains information about land use in Australia, mapping and data, the national land use classification system, technical reports supporting mapping work and analysis of land use information. It also provides access to downloadable data from the Australian Natural Resources Data Library.

Visit the Land Use Mapping for Australia website.



Last reviewed: 10 Nov 2008
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