Download or read book Queensland Environmental Offsets Policy written by Department Environment and Science. Conservation Policy and Planning and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Queensland Biodiversity Offset Policy written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Queensland Biodiversity Offset Policy written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this policy is to increase the long-term protection and viability of the state's biodiversity where residual impacts from a development, on an area possessing State significant biodiversity values, cannot be avoided. The policy provides the framework to ensure that there is no net loss of biodiversity.
Download or read book Queensland Environmental Offsets Policy written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Queensland Environmental Offsets Policy written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this Guide is to assist in interpreting and implementing the Queensland environmental offsets framework. This Guide is not a statutory document, but it provides an explanation of each step of the process in determining whether or not an environmental offset is required, and guidance on how to deliver an environmental offset requirement.
Download or read book General Guide for the Queensland Environmental Offsets Framework written by Department Environment and Science. Conservation Policy and Planning and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guide to Determining Terrestrial Habitat Quality written by Queensland. Department of Environment and Heritage Protection. Ecosystem Outcomes. Biodiversity Integration and Offsets and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide has been developed by the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection (EHP) to assist proponents measuring the habitat quality of a land based offset under the Queensland Environmental Offset Policy (QEOP). It is based on the methodology set out in the BioCondition Assessment Manual and BioCondition benchmarks, as developed by the Queensland Herbarium. The guide is used to assess the suitability of an offset site relative to the impact site and the prescribed environmental matters. It provides a step-by-step methodology for measuring and comparing the habitat quality of the sites and assists in monitoring changes in the habitat quality of an offset site over time. The guide can also be used for assessing the habitat quality of marine plants that are mapped and described using the regional ecosystem framework.
Download or read book Queensland Environmental Offsets Policy written by Department of Environment and Science and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Queensland Government Environmental Offsets written by Queensland. Environmental Protection Agency and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discussion paper seeks peoples views on establishing an environmental offsets policy framework and implementation mechanism in Queensland. An environmental offset been an action taken to compensate for a negative environmental impact that might result from an approved activity or development.
Download or read book Guide to Determining Terrestrial Habitat Quality Methods for Assessing Habitat Quality Under the Queensland Environmental Offsets Policy written by Department of Environment and Science. Offsets Policy and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Review of Queensland s Environmental Offsets Framework written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Queensland Government is undertaking a comprehensive review of the Queensland Environmental Offsets Framework. The aim is to ensure Queensland's extraordinary biodiversity values are provided protection through effective offset delivery. This review is exploring avenues that will encourage greater investment in activities that counterbalance the unavoidable impacts from development practices.
Download or read book Biodiversity Offsets Effective Design and Implementation written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines the key design and implementation features that need to be considered to ensure that biodiversity offset programmes are environmentally effective, economically efficient, and distributionally equitable.
Download or read book A Review of Queensland s Environmental Offsets Framework Consultation and Response Report written by Department of Environment and Science and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Policy for Biodiversity Conservation written by Megan Catherine Evans and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conservation of biodiversity is a daunting and complex public policy challenge. Over the past three decades, two clear themes have emerged in conservation science, policy and practice: greater experimentation with market-based policy instruments (MBIs); and an increased concern over the effectiveness of conservation policies. These two themes are interrelated, as a key driver of the rise in prominence of MBIs has been the promise of more effective, efficient and equitable conservation than that which is possible under 'traditional' regulatory approaches. However, scarce evidence is available on the efficacy of regulatory policies and MBIs alike, and it has been argued that "better theory, better methods, and better data" are required if conservation policies are to be more frequently and rigorously evaluated for effectiveness. This focus on the technical challenges of policy evaluation is incomplete, as effectiveness of conservation policy is influenced not only by the choice of policy instrument or combination thereof, but also the actors involved, the relevant institutional, social and political contexts, and decisions made at various stages of the policy process. In this thesis, I investigate the challenges and complexities associated with conservation policy in Australia, an advanced and politically stable economy. Using an interdisciplinary, mixed methods approach, I consider regulatory and market-based policy responses to a major driver of biodiversity loss, deforestation, and evaluate what outcomes, opportunities and risks these policies present for conservation. In Chapter Two, I document the recent shift away from 'command and control' policy responses to deforestation in Australia, and towards self-regulation and MBIs. Despite this change in policy style, little is known of their efficacy. In Chapter Three, I use a spatially explicit bent-cable regression model to evaluate what effect regulatory policies have had on the rate of deforestation in Queensland, Australia. I find some evidence of a policy effect after adjusting for covariates, but extreme variation in regional deforestation trends reduces this effect at the state level. In Chapter Four, I present findings which confirm that carbon farming is economically viable in degraded Queensland agricultural landscapes under an estimated $5 t CO2e-1 carbon price. In practice however, large-scale reforestation has not occurred despite being the 'rational' option, in part due to policy complexity and political uncertainty. In the final three empirical chapters, I consider challenges in the design, implementation and evaluation of biodiversity offset policy. In Chapter Five I describe a mathematical framework used to underpin the Australian Environmental Offsets Policy, which was designed to deliver 'no net loss' outcomes for protected matters. I subsequently illustrate in Chapters Six and Seven that improvements to policy design do not necessarily lead to better policy outcomes, due to complexities that emerge through policy implementation in the context of multi-actor, multi-level environmental governance. I draw on qualitative data from interviews with key informants to describe potential risks to biodiversity outcomes under current offset policy settings, including: ambiguous responsibility for long term security and management, fragmentation within government departments at the federal and state levels, and a lack of transparency and public accountability. I conclude the thesis and provide future research directions in Chapter Eight.
Download or read book Queensland Environmental Offsets Policy Significant Residual Impact Guideline written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this guideline is to assist in deciding whether or not a prescribed activity will, or is likely to have a significant residual impact on a matter of state environmental significance (MSES).
Download or read book Biodiversity Offsets written by Wolfgang Wende and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the new concept of biodiversity offsets. The aim of offsetting schemes is to achieve no let loss or even net gain of biodiversity. Offsets obey a mitigation hierarchy and reflect the precautionary and polluter-pays principle in regard to project impacts. Readers gain insights into current debates on biodiversity policies, with top experts outlining theoretical principles and the latest research findings. At the same time the focus is on practical application and case studies. Today there is a lively international discussion among practitioners and scientists on the optimal legal framework, metrics and design of habitat banks to ensure the success of biodiversity offsets and to minimise the risks of failure or misuse. Contributing to the debate, this volume presents the activities and practices of biodiversity offsetting already implemented in Europe in selected EU member states, and the lessons that can be learnt from them. Readers may be surprised at how much experience already exists in these countries. A further aim of the book is to offer grounded insights on the road ahead, and foster a more intensive and fruitful discussion on how offsetting can be extended and improved upon, so that it becomes a key and effective component of Europe’s biodiversity conservation policy framework.
Download or read book Queensland Biodiversity Policy Framework written by Environmental Protection Agency and published by . This book was released on 2002-12-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
