Indigenous sociocultural assets were sourced from existing Commonwealth heritage databases, (Table 5).
Meetings have been held with Indigenous knowledge holders in the Hunter subregion to gain further understanding of Indigenous cultural water-dependent assets. Should additional information on Indigenous water-related values become available to the Programme, it may might be incorporated into an updated water-dependent asset register and/or into later technical products. This will only be done if possible and approporiate, and with the agreement of Indigenous knowledge holders.
Sociocultural assets were primarily sourced from heritage and national estate lists within the Australian Heritage Database (Department of the Environment, 2013). A couple of assets were also obtained from the WAIT database.
Typically, sociocultural assets that are landscape water features are included within the ecological asset classes to avoid repetition of assets, but as noted earlier the asset list does contain some duplication of assets.
Table 5 Datasets in the Water Asset Information Tool database and Australian Heritage Database used to identify sociocultural assets in the Hunter subregion
Dataseta |
Dataset citation |
Elements |
Assets (in asset list) |
---|---|---|---|
Water Asset Information Tool database – Avoca and Terrigal recreation areas |
Australian Government Department of the Environment (Dataset 4) |
2 |
2 |
World Heritage List (WHL) |
Australian Government Department of the Environment (Dataset 34) |
1 |
1 |
National Heritage List (NHL) |
Australian Government Department of the Environment (Dataset 35) |
9 |
9 |
Commonwealth Heritage List (CHL) |
Australian Government Department of the Environment (Dataset 36) |
12 |
12 |
Register of the National Estate (RNE) |
Australian Government Department of the Environment (Dataset 37) |
419 |
419 |
Total |
443 |
443 |
aThe asset database (Bioregional Assessment Programme, Dataset 1) is a collation of all these source datasets. Some assets may be captured in multiple databases.