Outlook Online
The Outlook Report assesses the current state of the Great Barrier Reef ecosystem’s environmental, social and economic values, examines the pressures and current responses and finally considers the likely outlook. It is structured around the eight assessments required by the Act, with each assessment forming a chapter of the Report.
This Outlook Report contains the key evidence for the assessments required under the Act. As it is the first Outlook Report, it also provides contextual information about the Great Barrier Reef, its ecosystem, use and management.
The information featured in the Report is only a small portion of all that is known about the Great Barrier Reef Region. No new research was undertaken as part of developing this Report; rather, the evidence used is derived from existing research and information sources. It was drawn from the best available published science and selected based on:
- relevance to the required assessments
- duration of study
- extent of area studied
- reliability (such as consistency of results across different sources, peer-review and rigour of study).
The sources of the evidence directly used in each chapter of the Outlook Report are cited at the end of that chapter. The complete set of evidence used to develop the Great Barrier Reef Outlook Report can be accessed by clicking on the assessment buttons below. Every effort has been made to include all citations and links used in the Outlook Report but there are some instances where this was not possible because of copyright or other reason. In addition to the citations from the Outlook Report, there is much more information presented here. However, the list is not exhaustive.
Currently the information can be browsed by assessments but will be searchable by topic at a later date.
