Download or read book Queensland Biodiversity Policy Framework written by Environmental Protection Agency and published by . This book was released on 2002-12-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Queensland Biodiversity Offset Policy written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this policy is to increase the long-term protection and viability of the state's biodiversity where residual impacts from a development, on an area possessing State significant biodiversity values, cannot be avoided. The policy provides the framework to ensure that there is no net loss of biodiversity.
Download or read book Building Nature s Resilience written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Guide for the Queensland Environmental Offsets Framework written by Department Environment and Science. Conservation Policy and Planning and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Australia s Biodiversity and Climate Change written by Will Steffen (Lead Author) and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2009-12-10 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's unique biodiversity is under threat from a rapidly changing climate. The effects of climate change are already discernible at all levels of biodiversity – genes, species, communities and ecosystems. Many of Australia's most valued and iconic natural areas – the Great Barrier Reef, south-western Australia, the Kakadu wetlands and the Australian Alps – are among the most vulnerable. But much more is at stake than saving iconic species or ecosystems. Australia's biodiversity is fundamental to the country's national identity, economy and quality of life. In the face of uncertainty about specific climate scenarios, ecological and management principles provide a sound basis for maximising opportunities for species to adapt, communities to reorganise and ecosystems to transform while maintaining basic functions critical to human society. This innovative approach to biodiversity conservation under a changing climate leads to new challenges for management, policy development and institutional design. This book explores these challenges, building on a detailed analysis of the interactions between a changing climate and Australia's rich but threatened biodiversity. Australia's Biodiversity and Climate Change is an important reference for policy makers, researchers, educators, students, journalists, environmental and conservation NGOs, NRM managers, and private landholders with an interest in biodiversity conservation in a rapidly changing world.
Download or read book Queensland s Protected Area Strategy 2020 2030 written by Department of Environment and Science and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Building Nature s Resilience written by Queensland. Department of Environment and Resource Management. Biodiversity Integration Unit and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Protecting Queensland s Strategic Cropping Land written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Accessing Biodiversity and Sharing the Benefits written by Santiago Carrizosa and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2004 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book aims to address the lack of information on the experiences of others by providing a comparative analysis of national access and benefit-sharing laws and policies in the 41 Pacific Rim countries that signed the CBD. It provides key insights on the main characteristics of selected access and benefit-sharing (ABS) policies and laws, their development, and implementation process. It contains a detailed comparative analysis of existing laws and policies. It presents four case studies of countries with regulations in place and contrasts them with four case studies of countries that are struggling to develop their regulations. It ends by discussing options of an international regime on ABS and a summary analysis of the main lessons and recommendations from the study.
Download or read book BioCondition written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Review of Queensland s Environmental Offsets Framework written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Queensland Government is undertaking a comprehensive review of the Queensland Environmental Offsets Framework. The aim is to ensure Queensland's extraordinary biodiversity values are provided protection through effective offset delivery. This review is exploring avenues that will encourage greater investment in activities that counterbalance the unavoidable impacts from development practices.
Download or read book Public Policy for Biodiversity Conservation written by Megan Catherine Evans and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conservation of biodiversity is a daunting and complex public policy challenge. Over the past three decades, two clear themes have emerged in conservation science, policy and practice: greater experimentation with market-based policy instruments (MBIs); and an increased concern over the effectiveness of conservation policies. These two themes are interrelated, as a key driver of the rise in prominence of MBIs has been the promise of more effective, efficient and equitable conservation than that which is possible under 'traditional' regulatory approaches. However, scarce evidence is available on the efficacy of regulatory policies and MBIs alike, and it has been argued that "better theory, better methods, and better data" are required if conservation policies are to be more frequently and rigorously evaluated for effectiveness. This focus on the technical challenges of policy evaluation is incomplete, as effectiveness of conservation policy is influenced not only by the choice of policy instrument or combination thereof, but also the actors involved, the relevant institutional, social and political contexts, and decisions made at various stages of the policy process. In this thesis, I investigate the challenges and complexities associated with conservation policy in Australia, an advanced and politically stable economy. Using an interdisciplinary, mixed methods approach, I consider regulatory and market-based policy responses to a major driver of biodiversity loss, deforestation, and evaluate what outcomes, opportunities and risks these policies present for conservation. In Chapter Two, I document the recent shift away from 'command and control' policy responses to deforestation in Australia, and towards self-regulation and MBIs. Despite this change in policy style, little is known of their efficacy. In Chapter Three, I use a spatially explicit bent-cable regression model to evaluate what effect regulatory policies have had on the rate of deforestation in Queensland, Australia. I find some evidence of a policy effect after adjusting for covariates, but extreme variation in regional deforestation trends reduces this effect at the state level. In Chapter Four, I present findings which confirm that carbon farming is economically viable in degraded Queensland agricultural landscapes under an estimated $5 t CO2e-1 carbon price. In practice however, large-scale reforestation has not occurred despite being the 'rational' option, in part due to policy complexity and political uncertainty. In the final three empirical chapters, I consider challenges in the design, implementation and evaluation of biodiversity offset policy. In Chapter Five I describe a mathematical framework used to underpin the Australian Environmental Offsets Policy, which was designed to deliver 'no net loss' outcomes for protected matters. I subsequently illustrate in Chapters Six and Seven that improvements to policy design do not necessarily lead to better policy outcomes, due to complexities that emerge through policy implementation in the context of multi-actor, multi-level environmental governance. I draw on qualitative data from interviews with key informants to describe potential risks to biodiversity outcomes under current offset policy settings, including: ambiguous responsibility for long term security and management, fragmentation within government departments at the federal and state levels, and a lack of transparency and public accountability. I conclude the thesis and provide future research directions in Chapter Eight.
Download or read book Queensland Biodiversity Offset Policy written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Legal frameworks for sustainable aquaculture written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2023-05-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aquaculture, the farming in water of aquatic animals and aquatic plants, has seen extraordinary growth over recent years in terms of production levels and as regards its share of production of aquatic animals and algae. Although the most recent figures show a slight slowdown in the rate of growth of the sector (FAO, 2022), aquaculture is still seen to have tremendous potential. Many developing countries have high aspirations for rapid aquaculture development in order to feed their fast-growing populations and to increase export earnings. The aim of this study is to identify the essential elements of a legal framework for sustainable aquaculture. For the fact is that in many countries the growth of aquaculture appears to have outpaced the development of the legislation and legal frameworks to govern aquaculture. This study is intended both to act as a guide to the complexity of legal frameworks for aquaculture and also to serve as the background or resource document for the Aquaculture Legal Assessment and Revision Tool (ALART).
Download or read book Connectivity Conservation in Queensland written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Towards a Nationwide Biodiversity Strategy written by Paul S. Sattler and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agricultural Land Use and Natural Gas Extraction Conflicts written by Madeline Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Onshore unconventional gas operations, in most jurisdictions, operate on the legal principle that all activities during exploration and extraction are ‘temporary’ in nature. The concept that the onshore unconventional gas industry has a temporary effect on the land on which it operates creates a regulatory paradox. On one hand, unconventional gas activities create energy security, national wealth and a bourgeoning export industry. On the other, agricultural land and agriculturalists may be significantly disadvantaged by unconventional gas activities potentially producing permanent damage to non-renewable fertile soils and spoiling the underground water tables. Thus, threatening future food security and food sovereignty. This book explores the socio-regulatory dimensions of coexistence between agricultural and onshore unconventional gas land uses in the jurisdictions with the highest concentration of proven unconventional gas reserves – Australia, Canada, the USA, the UK, France, Poland and China. In exploring the differing regulatory standpoints of unconventional gas land uses on productive farming land in the chosen jurisdictions, this book provides an original three-part categorisation of regulatory approaches addressing the coexistence of agricultural land and unconventional gas namely: adaptive management, precautionary and, finally, statism. It offers a timely and topical approach to socio-legal natural resource governance theory based on the participation, transparency and empowerment for agricultural landholders, examining how differing frameworks such as the collective bargaining framework can create equitable and sustainable contractual arrangements with unconventional gas companies.
