Providing for a diverse range of outdoor recreation opportunities: a "micro-ROS" approach to planning and management

In South East Queensland, a consortium of public sector agencies are developing a “micro-ROS” approach to the recording of outdoor recreation opportunities across a range of public land tenures. The basis of this data gathering process is a landscape classification system that describes individual recreational sites according to their biophysical, social and managerial attributes. This process will allow the current range of combinations of outdoor recreation activity and landscape setting to be recorded and facilitate an activity x setting approach to recreation planning and management. Such a coordinated and uniform approach to the collection of outdoor recreation data has not previously occurred in South East Queensland. This project will significantly contribute to effective and efficient provision of public sector outdoor recreation services, provision of a wide range of high quality outdoor recreation opportunities at a regional level and more effective integration of outdoor recreation in land use decision making.