Preserving Rural Australia
Issues and Solutions
By: A Robertson, R WattsDeals with broad issues relating to resource decline and how different groups deal with these issues from social, economic and ecological points of view.
Scientific knowledge alone will not help countries achieve sustainable management of land, water and biota. Everyone now realises that a partnership is needed between land and water users, scientists, managers and the community if countries are to achieve the goal of preserving rural resources. + Full description
This book deals with broad issues relating to resource decline and how different groups such as farmers, rural town dwellers, resource managers and government deal with these issues from social, economic and ecological points of view.
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Reviews
"The book contains a set of chapters dealing with broad issues relating to resource decline. A second set of chapters by farmers, rural town dwellers, and resource managers focuses on how different groups in the community deal with these issues to solve resource use problems... Most of the contributors' comments are thought provoking as Peter Cullen’s chapter on water demonstrates."
Australian Farm Journal, Dec 2000
Details
ePDF | January 1999ISBN: 9780643105263
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
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Contents
ContributorsPreface
- Scientific and Social Impediments to Restoration Ecology as Applied to Rural Landscapes
- The Farming Environment
- Water, Politics and Power: Can we Integrate Natural Resource Management in Rural Australia?
- Challenges for the Conservation of Biodiversity in Australian Freshwater Ecosystems
- Water and Landscapes: Perceptions and Expectations
- Sustaining Natural Resources and Biological Diversity in Terrestrial Ecosystems of Rural Australia
- Nutrients and Algal Blooms: Lessons from Inland Catchments
- Beefing up our Trade: Health and Environmental Concerns and Rural Exports
- Impediments to the Achievements of the Commercial and Conservation Benefits of Farm Forestry
- Toward Regional Strategies for Rural Sustainability: A Farmer's View
- Saline Politics: An Inland City Case Study
- Growing Food and Growing Houses: Preserving Agricultural Land on the Fringes of Cities
- Social and Economic Costs and Benefits of Taking Water from our Rivers: the Macquarie Marshes as a Test Case
- Co-operative Management of Road Reserves for Biodiversity Maintenance