Enhancing community benefits

Marine estate education strategy

Implementing the NSW Marine Estate Education Strategy and curriculum-based school's package.

Maritime heritage review

Assessing threats to marine historic heritage and recommending strategies to manage those threats.

Community wellbeing framework

Collecting social, cultural and economic data to provide a foundation for long-term monitoring of community wellbeing associated with the marine estate.

Values and activity mapping

Pilot a comprehensive mapping survey to collect spatial data on socio-cultural values and human use activities associated with the marine estate, to support marine planning and management.

Marine estate economic valuation and benefits monitoring

Developing a comprehensive and robust valuation framework across the NSW marine estate.

Blue economy

Working across multiple sectors to develop a Blue Growth Strategy for NSW which explores opportunities for coordinated, innovative, long-term, sustainable development of the marine estate with a focus on those current and emerging activities which provide the greatest opportunity for sustainable growth for NSW.

NSW Marine Estate Community Wellbeing Surveys

The community wellbeing surveys provide valuable insight into our coastline from Coastal Residents, Youth and Visitors. Using the responses to the surveys, we can track the benefits, threats and trends in community wellbeing over time.

Connections to Sea Country - Aboriginal People of Coastal NSW survey

The Connections to Sea Country – Aboriginal Peoples of Coastal NSW Survey (Wave 1) is the first survey of its kind, aimed at improving our understanding of Aboriginal peoples' cultural connections to Sea Country and the impacts on these connections.

Teacher resources for primary schools

Find resources and activities for schools on this page.