Resources committed to heritage expertise

This indicator is no longer maintained, and is considered OBSOLETE.

INDICATOR DEFINITION
This indicator shows the level of funding provided by the Australian Antarctic Division for heritage expertise.

TYPE OF INDICATOR
There are three types of indicators used in State of the Environment reporting:
1. Describe the CONDITION of important elements of a system;
2. Show the extent of the major PRESSUREs exerted on a system;
3. Determine RESPONSE to either condition or changes in the condition of a system.

This indicator is one of: RESPONSE

RATIONALE FOR INDICATOR SELECTION
The resources committed to heritage management are a measurable indicator of Governmental commitment to heritage issues.

Australia's human, or cultural, Antarctic heritage includes significant and fundamental activities, sites, buildings, stories and artefacts from the entire 20th Century, ranging from ground-breaking exploration and research to comparatively mundane aspects of day-to-day expedition life. This Antarctic heritage is of significance to Australia, and, particularly in respect to the first half of the 20th Century, to the rest of the world. As the natural elements and the passage of time disperse or destroy those aspects of heritage that are not traced, recorded or curated, the importance of intervention through a heritage management program increases yearly.

DESIGN AND STRATEGY FOR INDICATOR MONITORING PROGRAM
Spatial scale: For the Australian Antarctic Territory, the whole of Antarctica, and the Territory of Heard Island and the McDonald Islands

Frequency: Annual reports

Measurement technique: The AAD's Environmental Management and Audit Unit would collate information for this indicator.

Budget Parent and Child accounts in the AAD's resource management system will be structured to allow immediate tracking of resources to individual heritage program sub-units.

RESEARCH ISSUES

LINKS TO OTHER INDICATORS
Resource allocation for area management and protection