Some of our most important natural resources have reached critical environmental thresholds because of unsustainable land-use practices.
Our role is to improve knowledge of how the land responds to human pressures, understand the potential limits to land-use intensification and other development, and discover what drives natural resource management decisions. This will improve the primary sector's economic and environmental performance, and will support the provision of wider ecosystem services.
Land & soil resources
Soils, landscapes and natural resources such as water underpin natural and managed ecosystems. They provide ecosystem and productive services on which we rely for agriculture and forestry and act as a platform for communities, infrastructure, and the national identity on which our culture and tourist trade is based.
