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Book Protecting the National Estate in Queensland

Download or read book Protecting the National Estate in Queensland written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Estate

Download or read book The National Estate written by Clem J. Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pp. 212-5; Quinkan country rock art; pp. 110-11, Coranderrk station; mention of other sites.

Book Protecting Nature

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeffrey A. McNeely
  • Publisher : IUCN
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9782831701196
  • Pages : 422 pages

Download or read book Protecting Nature written by Jeffrey A. McNeely and published by IUCN. This book was released on 1994 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume describes the major issues facing protected areas, both terrestrial and marine, and discusses the approaches needed to address these issues. An additional section, drawing upon the expertise of CNPPA's vice-chair, marine, and members of 14 task forces, specifically addresses protected area issues in the coastal marine environment.

Book APAIS 1991  Australian public affairs information service

Download or read book APAIS 1991 Australian public affairs information service written by and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Subject Index to Current Literature

Download or read book A Subject Index to Current Literature written by Australian Public Affairs Information Service and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Society and Environment Teachers Book G

Download or read book Society and Environment Teachers Book G written by R.I.C. Publications Pty, Limited and published by R.I.C. Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bush Heritage Australia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sarah Martin
  • Publisher : NewSouth
  • Release : 2016-09-01
  • ISBN : 1742247911
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Bush Heritage Australia written by Sarah Martin and published by NewSouth. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a plan to own or manage one per cent of Australia by 2025, Bush Heritage Australia is an organisation with big ambitions. Started by Bob Brown in 1991, Bush Heritage was born from an urgent mission: to protect pristine land from logging. After buying two blocks of land in Tasmania’s Liffey Valley, Brown built a philanthropic organisation to help pay for them. As donations flowed in and the organisation grew, Bush Heritage set its sights on acquiring tracts of land across the country, repairing environmental degradation and bringing native plants and wildlife back to health. Twenty-five years later, with more than one million hectares in its care, Bush Heritage’s achievements are celebrated in this book along with its growth from humble beginnings into a large non-profit with benefactors all over the world. Central to this story are the ecologists, researchers, land managers, local Indigenous groups, staff, donors and a brigade of volunteers who have helped the organisation to thrive. ‘For the ever-growing band of benefactors, and the volunteers and staff of Bush Heritage Australia, happiness flows from our combined effort to ensure that Australia’s unique landscapes, wildlife and ecosystems prosper into the future.’ BOB BROWN

Book Report of the National Estate

Download or read book Report of the National Estate written by Australia. Committee of Inquiry into the National Estate and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pt I, chap. 1-2, p.20-37; Definitions, why preserve it; Pt II, chap. 3-4, p.44-163; The natural environment, the built environment; chap. 5, p.166188; Aboriginal sites and other special areas; Aboriginal sites - comments on lack of knowledge about & regard for culture of Aborigines, problems (rights of Aborigines to choose their own life style, interest in sites even where no Aborigines with traditional ties remain, poor protection in past), programmes already initiated to identify & record sites (including A.I.A.S. work), number of important sites still in private hands, need to have national Government accept responsibility for protection, need to accept Aboriginal wishes regarding certain sites, recognition of importance of whole sites not only rock art which may be associated, importance of sites without any signs of use or occupation, need for archaeological examination of abandoned sites (e.g. Tasmania); inventory of Aboriginal sites - outline of work already started, threats from mining exploration & exploitation; legislative protection - outline of legislation in force & its strengths & weaknesses (especially N.T.), notes lack of agreement on portable relics & penalties for offences, need for supervision of public utilities & to prevent use of midden material for roads etc., recommendations uniform legislation for protection, opportunities for Aborigines to be consulted in drafting process; historic & other sites, caves (notes Aboriginal use of caves & rock overhangs); chap. 6, p.192-198; Cultural property - need to preserve items (notes W.A. Museum scheme to construct storehouses for Aboriginal sacred artifacts); need to control sale of cultural property; Pt III, chap. 7-8, p.206-291; Constitutional constraints (notes Australian Government powers to legislate for all Aborigines); role of the Australian Government; chap. 9, p.256270; Taxation; chap. 10 p.274-291; New tasks for the Australian Government; Pt IV, chap. 11-12, p.298-327; Education for conservation (notes W.A. Museum suggestion to train Aboriginal field officers & wardens to control Aboriginal sites), voluntary organisations; Pt V, p.334-349; Findings & recommendations (restates those listed in earlier chapters); p.352-399; Appendix A - Test of Unesco Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage; Appendix B - Committee meetings; Appendix C - List of those who made submissions and/or appeared before the Committee; Appendix D - Australian participation in international conventions & agreements; Appendix E - Overseas legislation & practices; Appendix F Text of recommendations to Minister for Urban & Regional Development & Minister for the Environment & Conservation (1973); Appendix G - Notes on vegetation types; Appendix H - Conservation through reservation in the States (legal aspects); p.402415; Footnotes; includes illustrations of bogong moths (p.272) and fish traps (p.292-293)

Book APAIS 1992  Australian public affairs information service

Download or read book APAIS 1992 Australian public affairs information service written by and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Australian National Bibliography

Download or read book Australian National Bibliography written by and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1978 with total page 1734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Forests Handbook  Volume 2

Download or read book The Forests Handbook Volume 2 written by Julian Evans and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2001-03-05 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of the world's forests is at the forefront of environmental debate. Rising concerns over the effects of deforestation and climate change are highlighting the need both to conserve and manage existing forests and woodland through sustainable forestry practices. The Forests Handbook, written by an international team of both scientists and practitioners, presents an integrated approach to forests and forestry, applying our present understanding of forest science to management practices, as a basis for achieving sustainability. Volume One presents an overview of the world's forests; their locations and what they are like, the science of how they operate as complex ecosystems and how they interact with their environment. Volume Two applies this science to reality; it focuses on forestry interventions and their impact, the principles governing how to protect forests and on how we can better harness the enormous benefits forests offer. Case studies are drawn from several different countries and are used to illustrate the key points. Development specialists, forest managers and those involved with land and land-use will find this handbook a valuable and comprehensive overview of forest science and forestry practice. Researchers and students of forestry, biology, ecology and geography will find it equally accessible and useful.

Book Wildlife  Fire   Future Climate

Download or read book Wildlife Fire Future Climate written by Brendan Mackey and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2002 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conservation of Earth's forest ecosystems is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. This volume explores these themes through a landscape-wide study of refugia and future climate in the tall, wet forests of the Central Highlands of Victoria.

Book Tourism and National Parks

Download or read book Tourism and National Parks written by Warwick Frost and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1872 Yellowstone was established as a National Park. The name caught the public’s imagination and by the close of the century, other National Parks had been declared, not only in the USA, but also in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Yet as it has spread, the concept has evolved and diversified. In the absence of any international controlling body, individual countries have been free to adapt the concept for their own physical, social and economic environments. Some have established national parks to protect scenery, others to protect ecosystems or wildlife. Tourism has also been a fundamental component of the national parks concept from the beginning and predates ecological justifications for national park establishment though it has been closely related to landscape conservation rationales at the outset. Approaches to tourism and visitor management have varied. Some have stripped their parks of signs of human settlement, while increasingly others are blending natural and cultural heritage, and reflecting national identities. This edited volume explores in detail, the origins and multiple meanings of National Parks and their relationship to tourism in a variety of national contexts. It consists of a series of introductory overview chapters followed by case study chapters from around the world including insights from the US, Canada, Australia, UK, Spain, France, Sweden, Indonesia, China and Southern Africa. Taking a global comparative approach, this book examines how and why national parks have spread and evolved, how they have been fashioned and used, and the integral role of tourism within national parks. The volume’s focus on the long standing connection between tourism and national parks; and the changing concept of national parks over time and space give the book a distinct niche in the national parks and tourism literature. The volume is expected to contribute not only to tourism and national park studies at the upper level undergraduate and graduate levels but also to courses in international and comparative environmental history, conservation studies, and outdoor recreation management.

Book The Gold Coast Transformed

Download or read book The Gold Coast Transformed written by Tor Hundloe and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2015-03-23 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gold Coast is one of Australia's premier tourism destinations, a city cut out of coastal vegetation, including paperbark swamps, mangroves and rainforests of worldwide significance. The Gold Coast Transformed is a collection of integrated chapters identifying and assessing the environmental impacts of the building of Australia's sixth largest city. From the time of the first timber-getters through to the present, the book traces the cumulative impacts of humans on the now World Heritage-listed rainforest and surrounding ecosystems. The city's natural and engineered environments are both fascinating and vulnerable. The construction of massive high-rise apartment blocks, on what were frontal beach dunes, is one of the fundamental mistakes not to be repeated. The book illustrates how and why major environmentally destructive development took place and discusses the impacts of such development on the Gold Coast's beaches, wildlife, and terrestrial and marine environments, such as the destruction of riparian mangrove forest. The Gold Coast Transformed also shows the possibility of sustaining natural populations and reducing the city's ecological footprint. It will be of interest to ecologists, environmental scientists and managers, town planners, economists, policymakers and the general public.

Book Values in Cities

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Lesh
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2022-09-23
  • ISBN : 1000606724
  • Pages : 382 pages

Download or read book Values in Cities written by James Lesh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-23 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining urban heritage in twentieth-century Australia, James Lesh reveals how evolving ideas of value and significance shaped cities and places. Over decades, a growing number of sites and areas were found to be valuable by communities and professionals. Places perceived to have value were often conserved. Places perceived to lack value became subject to modernisation, redevelopment, and renewal. From the 1970s, alongside strengthened activism and legislation, with the innovative Burra Charter (1979), the values-based model emerged for managing the aesthetic, historic, scientific, and social significance of historic environments. Values thus transitioned from an implicit to an overt component of urban, architectural, and planning conservation. The field of conservation became a noted profession and discipline. Conservation also had a broader role in celebrating the Australian nation and in reconciling settler colonialism for the twentieth century. Integrating urban history and heritage studies, this book provides the first longitudinal study of the twentieth-century Australian heritage movement. It advocates for innovative and reflexive modes of heritage practice responsive to urban, social, and environmental imperatives. As the values-based model continues to shape conservation worldwide, this book is an essential reference for researchers, students, and practitioners concerned with the past and future of cities and heritage. The Foreword and Chapter 1/Introduction of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Book Society and Environment Teachers Book G

Download or read book Society and Environment Teachers Book G written by R.I.C. Publications Pty, Limited and published by R.I.C. Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book APAIS 1994  Australian public affairs information service

Download or read book APAIS 1994 Australian public affairs information service written by and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: