Plan Summary

Green Adelaide will deliver practical outcomes across 7 key priorities.

Below is a summary of the priorities, and how the draft Regional Landscape Plan addresses these.

The Summary of Green Adelaide’s Draft Regional Landscape Plan PDF is available for download.

7 Key Priorities overview

1. Coastal management

Goal

Coastal and marine habitat biodiversity is restored and conserved

Focus areas

• Facilitate a partnerships approach to adaptive coast and marine management
• Partner and invest in the conservation and restoration of coastal and marine environments
• Conserve and restore Blue Carbon habitats

Outcomes

• Coordinated conservation and restoration of natural coast and marine environments
• Improved biodiversity outcomes, including habitats and species of key conservation concern
• Enhanced climate resilience and adaptation and increased environmental and social benefits

Example Outcome Indicators (5 years)

• Reef condition improves
• Seagrass extent and condition improves
• Coastal habitat condition of significant sites improves
• Populations of species of conservation concern increase or remain stable

2. Water resources and wetlands

Goal

Water resources deliver environmental, economic, social and cultural benefits

Focus areas

• Protect, enhance, and restore water resources and water-dependent ecosystems through partnerships and on-ground delivery
• Build water knowledge and management capacity of practitioners and community
• Simple and enabling water management policy frameworks

Outcomes

• Biodiverse blue and green spaces that enhance the quality and sustainability of water resources
• Effective management of watercourses by landholders (public and private)
• Best practice, sustainable water management

Example Outcome Indicators (5 years)

• Aquatic ecosystem condition improves
• Fish abundance and diversity increases
• Surface water (flow and quality) improves

3. Biodiversity sensitive urban design (BSUD) & water sensitive urban design (WSUD)

Goal

Community and industry capacity to design cooler, biodiverse and greener urban landscapes is improved

Focus areas

• Facilitate and incentivise best practice BSUD and WSUD in new developments, major transport corridors, public open spaces and local streetscapes
• Coordinate and partner on research and other tools to address barriers to implementation and identify opportunities for innovation
• Build community, council and industry knowledge, motivation and capacity to deliver best practice outcomes

Outcomes

• Best practice BSUD and WSUD outcomes in both the private and public realm
• Implementation barriers are solved and opportunities harnessed
• Improved WSUD and BSUD implementation success by community, councils and industry

Example Outcome Indicators (5 years)

• Uptake of WSUD and BSUD in new development increases
• Uptake of WSUD and BSUD in council projects increases

4. Green streets and flourishing parklands

Goal

The extent and quality of urban green cover is increased

Focus areas

• G1 Drive coordinated, accelerated greening of streetscapes and public spaces
• Encourage the protection of trees and incentivise greater greening of private land through the new planning system and other levers
• Identify priority locations for improved urban greening and define what success looks like in different contexts

Outcomes

• Improved regional coordination to achieve more resilient, water smart and sustainable urban greening outcomes
• More new infill housing keep mature trees and plant more than the minimum landscaping requirements
• Strategic, high quality greening reflective of local context and need

Example Outcome Indicators (5 years)

• Tree canopy and green cover increases
• Reduction of localised heat islands

5. Fauna, flora and ecosystem health in the urban environment

Goal

Urban habitats for native flora and fauna are restored, conserved or expanded

Focus areas

• Facilitate and invest in improving knowledge about species and ecological systems and their management
• Invest and partner in protecting, improving and/or creating terrestrial habitats
• Identify and support the implementation of recovery actions for threatened plants and animals

Outcomes

• Flora and fauna conservation management practices are improved
• Terrestrial habitat condition improves at sites with significant investment
• Quality (or extent) of habitat is enhanced and threatened species’ population decline is halted (or reversed) at targeted sites

Example Outcome Indicators (5 years)

• Terrestrial habitat condition improves for specific sites
• Populations of species of conservation concern increase or remain stable

6. Controlling pest plants and animals

Goal

The impacts of pests and overabundant native species are well managed

Focus areas

• Facilitate research and provide expert advice to support effective management of overabundant native species and pest plants and animals
• Work with partners to conduct surveillance to detect incursion of new and emerging pest plants and animals.
• Establish partnerships to develop and implement innovative pest and overabundant species management strategies and educational programs

Outcomes

• Knowledge and delivery of effective management strategies improves
• Identification and control of new and emerging pest animals and plants before they are widely established
• Mitigated threat to native species and the community and protection of key biodiversity assets and primary production

Example Outcome Indicators (5 years)

• Number of emerging weeds (populations/sites) controlled, reduced or eradicated
• Number of pest incursions identified and eradicated

7. Nature education

Goal

Community members value, connect with and are stewards for nature

Focus areas

• Raise awareness and build capacity about Aboriginal cultural knowledge, values and lore
• Facilitate cross-sector nature education community campaigns to reach diverse audiences
• Enable a movement of diverse nature ‘stewards’ through school/educational partnerships, community learning and development, nature play, citizen science and sustainability activities

Outcomes

• Traditional practices are embedded in community-led projects and programs
• Increased community awareness, understanding and inspiration to connect with and care for nature
• Increased environmental values and broad participation in nature stewardship and sustainability activities across diverse communities

Example Outcome Indicators (5 years)

• Community environmental values, knowledge and behaviours are improved
• Community knowledge, recognition and attitudes towards Kaurna culture are increased

Potential Iconic Projects (across all priorities)

Specific projects for each priority are to be determined.

• Rewilding our rivers and coastlines – opportunities exist at:
  • Lower Field River Valley
  • Dry Creek
  • Sturt River
  • Aldinga Washpool
  • Mutton Cove
  • delivering Breakout Creek Stage 3
• Greening our streets and backyards – bringing together multiple partners to drive an ambitious and coordinated approach to greening our city
• Making Adelaide a National Park City – lead the process to creating a National Park City
• Reigniting Culture – led by Warpulai Kumangka and includes a partnered Cultural Burns Program

Example Annual Indicators (across all projects)

• Levy dollars invested
• Additional funding leveraged
• Number of project partners
• Number of grants
• Spread of investment socially and spatially
• Media/social media reach
• Number of research trials funded
• Number of projects led by, or with input from, Kaurna
• Kaurna employment (Green Adelaide projects/programs)
• Hectares of habitat maintained/restored
• Number of volunteers/citizen science events
• Number of trees and other vegetation planted
• Hectares of pest plant and animal control
• Number of capacity-building events