Expected Outcomes

The expected outputs produced by the Landscapes Futures Program will:

• improve and verify models used in estimating the water, carbon and nutrient balances of different crops and vegetation types with current and future climate conditions;

• identify the economic and community consequences (jobs and services) of changing land use practices to improve and conserve resource conditions;

• develop alternative methods for assigning economic, social and environmental values to agricultural production, community services and ecosystem services;

• improve methods for assessing and prioritising biodiversity values of different land use configurations;

• develop and demonstrate new methods for assessing and monitoring natural resources at landscape scales;

• identify new ways of demonstrating and communicating possible regional landscape arrangements and functions using animation and visualisation technology.