
Reintegrating Fragmented Landscapes
Towards Sustainable Production and Nature Conservation
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 18. October 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIII, 332 pages
978-1-4613-9216-3 (ISBN)
Description
Social historians will look back on the 1980s as a period when a global consciousness of the environment developed. Stimulated by major issues and events such as oil and chemical spills, clearing of rainforests, pollu tion of waterways, and, towards the end of the decade, concern over the greenhouse effect, concern for the environment has become a major social and political force. Unfortunately, the state of the environment and its future manage ment are still very divisive issues. Often, at a local level, concern for the environment is the antithesis of development. The debate usually focusses on the possible negative environmental impacts of an activity versus the expected positive economic impacts. It is a very difficult task to integrate development and conservation, yet it is towards this objec tive that the sustainable development debate is moving. The issues in the central wheatbelt of Western Australia are typical of the environment versus development debate. It is undoubted that the development of the area, which involved clearing the native vegetation, has had a major impact upon the original ecosystems. Many of the natural habitats are threatened and local extinction of flora and fauna species is a continuing process. Moreover, there are clear signs that land degradation processes such as dryland salinity are depleting the land resource.
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Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XIII, 332 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
534 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4613-9216-3 (9781461392163)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4613-9214-9
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Richard J. Hobbs | Denis A. Saunders
Reintegrating Fragmented Landscapes
Towards Sustainable Production and Nature Conservation
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12/1992
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Content
I: Background.- 1 Introduction.- 2 History of Landscape Development.- 3 Social History and Impact on Landscape (with Trayning: Case History of a Shire by D. Couper).- II: Landscape Disintegration.- 4 Changes in Biota.- 5 Changes in Soil Properties.- 6 Changes in Hydrologic Balance.- III: Landscape Reintegration.- 7 Landscape Reintegration: Problem Definition.- 8 Integrating Ecological and Economic Considerations: A Theoretical Framework.- 9 Determining the Long-Term Costs and Benefits of Alternative Farm Plans.- 10 Conservation Management in Fragmented Systems.- IV: Conclusions.- 11 Conclusions. Can We Reintegrate Fragmented Landscapes?.