R&D priorities and outcomes
The following is a list of the EPA’s R&D priorities under which specific project activities can be grouped. The R&D
priorities mirror those for the EPA’s overall science program. R&D projects may not be active in all priority areas at all
times. The EPA will continue scanning for targeted R&D needs and priorities within the EPA’s broad science and
policy agenda as contingencies arise.
The bottom-line outcome sought by the EPA through its R&D endeavours is ecologically sustainable development as
an integral part of Queensland’s economy and lifestyle though enhanced knowledge, informed decision and policymaking
and community leadership.
The EPA’s primary goals under its Corporate Plan 2006-09 are:
- Protection of Queensland’s natural and cultural heritage;
- Sustainable use of Queensland’s natural capital;
- A clean, liveable and healthy environment.
EPA R&D Priorities |
Examples of specific project activities |
R&D Outcomes |
1. |
Parks Masterplan
implementation
|
- Fire management
- Pest management (plants and animals)
- Indigenous heritage on EPA's Park Estate
|
Protection of Queensland's natural and cultural heritage
Sustainable use of Queensland's natural capital.
|
2. |
Species conservation |
- Maintaining and recovering ecological habitats and species populations (plants and animals - marine, freshwater, terrestrial)
- Wildife ecology, conservation and sustainable use
|
3. |
Ecosystem conservation |
- Conservation, restoration and management of ecosystems
|
4. |
Environmental
sustainability |
- Land condition analysis and management
- Environmental impacts of land use activities
- Land remediation
- Coastal hazards, hydrology and protection
|
5. |
Climate change adaptation/mitigation |
- Strategies to respond to loss of species, commuinities caused by climate change
- Response to extreme weather events
- Risk profiling of coastal locations
|
Protection of Queensland's natural and cultural heritage
|
6. |
Clean environment |
- Water quality, eg, testing of modelling techniques
- Air quality, eg, development of pollutant sampling protocols
- Soil contamination, eg, research of remediation methods
- Environmental licensing support by assessing the cumulative capacity of receiving environments
|
A clean, liveable and healthy environment
|
7. |
Heritage |
- Natural heritage - parks estate, world heritage
- Built heritage
- Cultural heritage
|
Protection of Queensland's natural and cultural heritage
|
8. |
Specialist systems, support methodologies |
- Environmental monitoring technologies
- Remote sensing of environmental condition
- Wildlife tracking technologies
- Environmental information technologies
- Environmental reporting methodologies
|
Protection of Queensland’s
natural and cultural heritage.
Sustainable use of Queensland’s
natural capital.
A clean, liveable and healthy
environment.
|
9. |
Resource use efficiency
- QSEIF program |
- Sustainable industry innovation
- Sutainability in the built environment
- Clean industry technologies
- Energy use efficiency
- Renewable energy
- Emerging energy technologies, industries
- Water-use efficiency
|
Sustainable use of Queensland's natural capital
A clean, liveable and healthy environment
|
Last updated: 26 July 2007
