Strengthening resilience to threatening processes and extreme events

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Strengthening resilience to threatening processes and extreme events

Project start date: 01/07/2021
Project end date: 31/12/2022
NESP funding: $200,000 (GST-exclusive)

Australian ecosystems and species face many threatening processes that contribute to biodiversity decline. These include:

altered hydrology such as water extraction
altered fire regimes
extreme floods, droughts and bushfires
diseases
invasive plants and animals.

The Australian Government aims to reduce the impacts of these threatening processes. This requires good policies, integrated planning and on-ground management, based on the best available evidence.

This project establishes the foundation for the hub’s research on building resilience to threatening processes, and considers landscape-scale interactions among these processes.

Key research areas

environmental weeds and diseases
invasive animals
bushfire management
wetlands and water management.

Rangers and scientists collaborate to assess the condition of savanna landscapes. Photo: NESP Northern Hub.
This project will establish the foundation for the Hub’s research on building resilience to threatening processes and extreme events. Photo: NESP Northern Hub.
This project will set the basis for further research into wetland management. Photo: NERP Northern Hub.