Case study 4: Economic value of the GBRWHA The GBR is the largest coral reef ecosystem and contains a globally unique array of world’s interconnected ecological communities, habitats and species. The integrity of these diverse ecosystems is managed by the Australian Government GBR Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) in cooperation with the Queensland government. The area is a multiple-use marine park and supports a range of uses and activities. In March 2013, Deloitte Access Economics estimated that the total Australia-wide valueadded economic contribution generated by the Reef in 2011-12 was AU$5.7 billion with employment of just below 69 000 jobs. These estimates are based on both the direct and indirect contribution of the activities considered. The activities considered in the study are tourism, recreation, commercial fishing, scientific research and reef management. Table 1: Economic contribution of the GBR and catchment to Australia Source: Deloitte Access Economics Over 90 per cent of the direct economic activity in the region comes from tourism. Recreation, which covers household recreational activity by those who live in the GBR catchment area, contributed just over AU$240 million in value-added and about 2 800 full time jobs. Recreational activity covers both trip-related expenditure for fishing, boating, sailing and visiting islands and household expenditure on recreational equipment. biodiversity also forms the basis of many of our primary production industries, Australia’s such as agriculture, forestry and fisheries. The services biodiversity provides to these industries include by pollinating plants, contributing to soil health and recycling nutrients. Biodiversity is also the basis for the production of many other important human services, such as medicines. From an economic perspective, capital base by volume is Australia’s more or less evenly spread between our produced capital (AU$4.2 billion) and our natural capital (AU$4.7 billion) (ABS, 2012). Case study 5 below provides a snapshot of the economic value of the Murray-Darling Basin region.
Case study 4: Economic value of the GBRWHA The GBR is the world’s largest coral reef ecosystem and contains a globally unique array of interconnected ecological communities, habitats and species. The integrity of these diverse ecosystems is managed by the Australian Government GBR Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) in cooperation with the Queensland government. The area is a multiple-use marine park and supports a range of uses and activities. In March 2013, Deloitte Access Economics estimated that the total Australia-wide valueadded economic contribution generated by the Reef in 2011-12 was AU$5.7 billion with employment of just below 69 000 jobs. These estimates are based on both the direct and indirect contribution of the activities considered. The activities considered in the study are tourism, recreation, commercial fishing, scientific research and reef management. Table 1: Economic contribution of the GBR and catchment to Australia Source: Deloitte Access Economics Over 90 per cent of the direct economic activity in the region comes from tourism. Recreation, which covers household recreational activity by those who live in the GBR catchment area, contributed just over AU$240 million in value-added and about 2 800 full time jobs. Recreational activity covers both trip-related expenditure for fishing, boating, sailing and visiting islands and household expenditure on recreational equipment. Australia’s biodiversity also forms the basis of many of our primary production industries, such as agriculture, forestry and fisheries. The services biodiversity provides to these industries include by pollinating plants, contributing to soil health and recycling nutrients. Biodiversity is also the basis for the production of many other important human services, such as medicines. From an economic perspective, Australia’s capital base by volume is more or less evenly spread between our produced capital (AU$4.2 billion) and our natural capital (AU$4.7 billion) (ABS, 2012). Case study 5 below provides a snapshot of the economic value of the Murray-Darling Basin region.
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