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Author : Julie A. Kesby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Australia
ISBN : UCLA:L0072049133
Author : Daniel Lunney,Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015029940429
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : MINN:31951P00196344S
Author : Indian Council of Social Science Research
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Geography
ISBN : UOM:39015086982827
Author : Dilwyn Griffiths
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000702286
Over the last century, the world has lived through changes more rapid than those experienced at any other time in human history, leading to pressing environmental problems and demands on the world’s finite resources. Nowhere is this more evident than across the world’s warm belt; a region likely to have the greatest problems and which is home to some of the world’s most disadvantaged people. This book reviews aspects of the biology of tropical ecosystems of northern Australia, as they have been affected by climatic, social and land-use changes. Tropical Australia can be regarded as a microcosm of the world’s tropics and as such, shares with other tropical regions many of the conflicts between various forms of development and environmental considerations. The book draws on a wide range of case studies of tropical Australian ecosystems ranging from coastal coral reefs and mangroves, known to be among the most vulnerable to the effects of the imposed changes, to cropping and pasture lands which, under careful management, have the potential remain as productive and sustainable agricultural or forestry ecosystems. Expert author Dilwyn Griffiths -emphasizes the importance of maintaining an active program for the establishment and management of national parks and environmental reserves -describes the effects of mining and other forms of industrial and urban development with particular reference to mine-site rehabilitation - explores problems relating to the restoration of marginally uneconomic farming land as alternative forms of land-use such as carbon farming through photosynthetically-driven carbon sequestration. This accessible reference work should find a place in educational libraries at all levels and become an essential resource for environmentalists and anyone with interests in various forms of land-use and development.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 1818 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : John Dargavel,Sue Feary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016298072
Eighteen papers dealing with Australias forest history and environmental history, many on a regional basis; cultural as well as natural environments are discussed; questions of assessing heritage values of forests.
Author : Robert S. Hill
Publisher : University of Adelaide Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781925261479
The Australian vegetation is the end result of a remarkable history of climate change, latitudinal change, continental isolation, soil evolution, interaction with an evolving fauna, fire and most recently human impact. This book presents a detailed synopsis of the critical events that led to the evolution of the unique Australian flora and the wide variety of vegetational types contained within it. The first part of the book details the past continental relationships of Australia, its palaeoclimate, fauna and the evolution of its landforms since the rise to dominance of the angiosperms at the beginning of the Cretaceous period. A detailed summary of the palaeobotanical record is then presented. The palynological record gives an overview of the vegetation and the distribution of important taxa within it, while the complementary macrofossil record is used to trace the evolution of critical taxa. This book will interest graduate students and researchers interested in the evolution of the flora of this fascinating continent.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Aust. Bureau of Statistics
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : National Library of Australia
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 1976 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Australia
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Pradeep Talwani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781107040380
"Intraplate earthquakes occur away from the well-known tectonic plate boundaries at locations around the world. These locations are particularly difficult to predict, and they can cause huge damage and loss of life: devastating earthquakes have levelled Bhuj in India (2001), Tangshan in China (1976), Charleston in the United States (1886), and Basel in Switzerland (1356). The Bhuj earthquake (featured in this book) was the largest intraplate earthquake for three decades and the rich dataset collected hasprovided unique insight into these events"--
Author : John A. Parrotta,Ronald L. Trosper
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9400721447
Exploring a topic of vital and ongoing importance, Traditional Forest Knowledge examines the history, current status and trends in the development and application of traditional forest knowledge by local and indigenous communities worldwide. It considers the interplay between traditional beliefs and practices and formal forest science and interrogates the often uneasy relationship between these different knowledge systems. The contents also highlight efforts to conserve and promote traditional forest management practices that balance the environmental, economic and social objectives of forest management. It places these efforts in the context of recent trends towards the devolution of forest management authority in many parts of the world. The book includes regional chapters covering North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia and the Australia-Pacific region. As well as relating the general factors mentioned above to these specific areas, these chapters cover issues of special regional significance, such as the importance of traditional knowledge and practices for food security, economic development and cultural identity. Other chapters examine topics ranging from key policy issues to the significant programs of regional and international organisations, and from research ethics and best practices for scientific study of traditional knowledge to the adaptation of traditional forest knowledge to climate change and globalisation.
Author : Jennifer Balint,Julie Evans,Nesam McMillan,Mark McMillan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472131686
Keeping Hold of Justice focuses on a select range of encounters between law and colonialism from the early nineteenth century to the present. It emphasizes the nature of colonialism as a distinctively structural injustice, one which becomes entrenched in the social, political, legal, and discursive structures of societies and thereby continues to affect people’s lives in the present. It charts, in particular, the role of law in both enabling and sustaining colonial injustice and in recognizing and redressing it. In so doing, the book seeks to demonstrate the possibilities for structural justice that still exist despite the enduring legacies and harms of colonialism. It puts forward that these possibilities can be found through collaborative methodologies and practices, such as those informing this book, that actively bring together different disciplines, peoples, temporalities, laws and ways of knowing. They reveal law not only as a source of colonial harm but also as a potential means of keeping hold of justice.
Author : Tim Bonyhady
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0868406287
Stories and phrases can powerfully shape the ways we experience and manage our environment. What languages have been used to characterise Australian landscapes and how have they influenced the way we see and treat our environment? How do stories take root in particular places? How do we find the right words for those parts of the country that matter to us? "Words for Country" answers these questions while exploring the inter-relationship between Australia's landscape and language. Tim Bonyhady and Tom Griffiths have brought together a collection of essays whose subjects range from the Ord River in the far north-west to Antarctica in the south, from the centre to the coast, the prehistoric to the present. Their terrain is environmental and cultural, political and poetic. Words for Country reveals not just how language grows out of the landscape but how words and stories shape the places in which we live.
Author : Simon Haberle,Janelle Stevenson,Matthew Prebble
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781921666810
Like a star chart this volume orientates the reader to the key issues and debates in Pacific and Australasian biogeography, palaeoecology and human ecology. A feature of this collection is the diversity of approaches ranging from interpretation of the biogeographic significance of plant and animal distributional patterns, pollen analysis from peats and lake sediments to discern Quaternary climate change, explanation of the patterns of faunal extinction events, the interplay of fire on landscape evolution, and models of the environmental consequences of human settlement patterns. The diversity of approaches, geographic scope and academic rigor are a fitting tribute to the enormous contributions of Geoff Hope. As made apparent in this volume, Hope pioneered multidisciplinary understanding of the history and impacts of human cultures in the Australia- Pacific region, arguably the globe's premier model systems for understanding the consequences of humans colonization on ecological systems. The distinguished scholars who have contributed to this volume also demonstrate Hope's enduring contribution as an inspirational research leader, collaborator and mentor. Terra Australis leave no doubt that history matters, not only for land management, but more importantly, in alerting settler and indigenous societies alike to their past ecological impacts and future environmental trajectories.