5.1 Soils and land management

• Introduction
• Status and trends
• Soil condition across NSW
• Pressures
• Assessing land management within capability
• Land management relative to capability
• Responses
• State Government responses
• Catchment level actions
• National responses
• Future directions

5.2 Chemicals in the NSW environment

• Introduction
• Status and trends
• Contaminated land
• Contaminated food and produce
• Pressures
• Intensive chemical use
• Extensive chemical use: agricultural and veterinary chemicals in the food chain
• Extensive chemical use: chemicals in the built environment
• Responses
• NSW Contaminated Land Management Framework
• Keeping residues out of food and produce
• New areas of management
• Future directions

References