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New South Wales Biosecurity Strategy

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Biosecurity NSW
  • Publisher: Department of Primary Industries, NSW
  • ISBN: 978 1 74256 308
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

‘Biosecurity’ means protecting the economy, environment and community from the negative impacts of pests, diseases and weeds. Biosecurity is vital for the health, well being and prosperity of everyone in NSW. The NSW Biosecurity strategy sets the overall direction for the management of animal and plant pests, diseases and ....

New West or same West?: Evolving land-use institutions in the rural American West

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: Long, Jerrold A.
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: The University of Wisconsin - Madison
  • Published Location: United States -- Wisconsin
  • ISBN: 9781109046229
  • Country: United States

Over the past two decades, a "New West" literature has arisen that argues that amenity-driven population growth is leading to a new set of expectations among westerners regarding the purpose of land. This literature describes changing human-land relationships that cause westerners to prefer preservation of the natural environment to res ....

Northern Australia Land and Water Taskforce: Final Report

  • Year: 2010
  • Author: Northern Australia Land and Water Taskforce
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Northern Australia

The Northern Australia Land and Water Taskforce has been charged with finding new opportunities for economic development in northern Australia based on water availability and sustainability. It is to report on the potential impact of new development on water balance and quality, the environment, existing water users and the broader community. It ....

Options for understanding regional dynamics in Northern Australia

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: Stafford Smith M (CSIRO Centre for Arid Zone Research, Alice Springs); Walker D (CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Aitkenvale); Maru Y (CSIRO Centre for Arid Zone Research, Alice Springs); Stoeckl N (CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Aitkenvale); Herr A (CSIRO Su
  • Publisher: Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Savannas Management
  • Published Location: Darwin
  • ISBN: 0958101477
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Northern Australia

A scoping study of the regional dynamics of northern Australia explored the justifications for investigating savanna regions as dynamic systems and considered the characteristics of savanna regions that make them behaviourally different from more densely settled regions. The implications of those differences for methods of explorin ....

Past, Present and Future Landscapes: Understanding Alternative Futures for Climate Change Adaptation of Coastal Settlements and Communities

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Morley, P., Trammell, J., Reeve, I., McNeill, J., Brunckhorst, D., Bassett, S.
  • Publisher: National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility
  • Published Location: Gold Coast
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

Though shaped by past elements, history demonstrates that future landscapes will be very different from those of the present. This is particularly so in coastal areas of rapid urban growth. The effects of climate change in the future will therefore be impacting on these quite different landscapes, not on those we see today. To gauge the severity ....

Pastoralists' knowledge of plant palatability and grazing indicators in an arid region of South Australia

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Wandby H, Petit S, Robinson G
  • Journal Name: The Rangeland Journal
  • Journal Number: 35:4
  • Country: Australia

Indicator species have been used for several decades as measures of ecosystem health. In arid Australian rangelands, which are dominated by commercial grazing enterprises reliant on native pastures, the development of efficacious indicators is particularly important to monitor production and biodiversity values. The high temporal and spatial clim ....

Perceptions of climate change impacts, adaptation and limits to adaption in the Australian Alps: the ski-tourism industry and key stakeholders

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Morrison, Clare; Pickering, Catherine M
  • Journal Name: Journal of Sustainable Tourism
  • Journal Number: 21.2
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Published Location: United Kingdom
  • ISBN: 09669582
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: The Australian Alps

This paper explores perceptions of ski-tourism representatives and other regional stakeholders about climate change impacts, limits to tourism development and adaptation strategies in the Australian Alps. This area faces rising temperatures, declining rain and snow falls, and shorter skiing seasons. Open-ended interviews examined the perceptions, ....

Pilbara Planning and Infrastructure Framework

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Planning Western Australia
  • Publisher: Western Australian Government
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Pilbara, Western Australia

The Pilbara Planning and Infrastructure Framework defines a strategic direction for the future development of the Pilbara region over the next 25 years. It seeks to ensure that development and change in the Pilbara is achieved in a way that improves people’s lives and enhances the character and environment of the region. Report LocationClick ....

PILT Payments, Access to Federal Lands Vital to Rural Communities: House Natural Resources Committee News Release

  • Year: 2011
  • Journal Name: Congressional Documents and Publications
  • Publisher: Federal Information & News Dispatch, Inc.
  • Published Location: Lanham, United States
  • Country: United States

PILT has become an essential lifeline for many rural counties. Since more than half of all the land in the West is owned and managed by the federal government, PILT has a significant impact on the rural economies of Western States. Report Locationhttp://search.proquest.com/docview/898545971? ....

Plants, people and planning: integrating national botanical information and regional vegetation planning and management

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: Wells G; Young A
  • Publisher: CSIRO Plant Industry
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Country: Australia

The Plants, People and Planning project considered how the information held in national botanical databases is used in regional vegetation planning and management. The specific objectives of the project were to examine the accessibility and usefulness of a range of national botanical datasets for regional groups in enabling them to ....

Prescribed burning in southwestern Australian forests

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Burrows, N; McCaw, L
  • Journal Name: Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Journal Number: 11.s1
  • ISBN: 1540-9295
  • Country: Australia

Prescribed burning is an important but often controversial fire-management tool in fire-prone regions of the world. Here, we explore the complex challenges of prescribing fire for multiple objectives in the eucalypt forests of southwestern Australia, which could be regarded as a model for temperate landscapes elsewhere. Prescribed fire has been u ....

Promoting Plant Conservation on Leasehold Land in the Australian Capital Territory

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: King, Geoff
  • Journal Name: Australasian Plant Conservation: Journal of the Australian Network for Plant Conservation
  • Journal Number: Vol. 20, No. 1
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Australian Capital Territory

Land tenure in the ACT is exclusively leasehold. In 1996, the Government commenced a review of rural land policy and launched a new one in March 2000. The new rural policy provided the basis for securing sustainable rural enterprises and a high degree of protection for the natural values that they support and with which they intera ....

Protecting Regrowth Vegetation in Queensland: A Case Study in Sustainable Land Management

  • Year: 2010
  • Author: Lawson, Ben
  • Journal Name: Australasian Plant Conservation: Journal of the Australian Network for Plant Conservation
  • Journal Number: Vol. 19, No. 1
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

The key aspects and features of Queensland's vegetation management framework to protect regrowth vegetation in Queensland are discussed. The innovative regulatory approach was undertaken after consultation with both conservation and rural industry groups, which allows landholders to manage vegetation sustainably on their properties ....

Protocols, particularities, and problematising Indigenous 'engagement' in communitybased environmental management in settled Australia

  • Year: 2010
  • Author: Carter, Jennifer
  • Journal Name: The Geographical Journal
  • Journal Number: 176
  • Publisher: Royal Geographical Society
  • Published Location: London, United Kingdom
  • Country: Australia

Many Aboriginal Australians in regional and urban Australia hold attachments to their homelands that have been compromised by policies of removal and dispossession. Government agencies and community groups have 'protocols' for engaging with Aboriginal communities, but these protocols have been transferred from remote parts of Australia ....

Public: private benefits framework version 3

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: Pannell, D.J
  • Journal Name: INFFER Working Paper
  • Journal Number: 0805
  • Publisher: University of Western Australia
  • Country: Australia

The choice of policy mechanisms for encouraging environmentally beneficial land-use change should depend on the relative levels of private (or internal) net benefits, and public (or external) net benefits. A map of recommended policy mechanisms is developed, depending on the relative levels of these variables. Positive incentives, negative incent ....

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