In Australia, community concerns strongly influence the way the minerals industry operates and how governments regulate it. The industry is required to fulfill its formal regulatory conditions (its licence to mine) as well as taking into consideration these community concerns (its social licence to operate). This research explores what it means to hold a social...

This CSIRO report discusses the possible ways the environment and natural resources will be used in the future and how society and culture will accommodate and adjust to these changes.

This report provides a summary of observations of Australia’s climate and analysis of the factors that influence it. It notes that the long-term warming trend has not changed, with each decade having been warmer than the previous decade since the 1950s. The warming trends observed around Australia are consistent with global-scale warming that has been...

This report is an industry aligned technology roadmap of the TCF Nonwoven Textiles field. It provides detail to help ensure the industry has the technical capability to be globally competitive. Enterprise Connect commissioned CSIRO through its SME Engagement Centre to develop a Technology Roadmap for the nonwovens manufacturing industry. Initially the request was to develop...

This report examines important streamside management zone processes and illustrates them with examples from forest management operations and agriculture. Streamside management zones (SMZs) are special landscape units that include riparian areas and adjacent lands that mitigate the movement of sediment, nutrients and other chemicals from upland forest and agricultural management areas into streams. The size...