
Ten Commitments Revisited
Securing Australia's Future Environment
CSIRO Publishing
Published on 1. September 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
360 pages
978-1-4863-0167-6 (ISBN)
Description
What are the 10 key issues that must be addressed urgently to improve Australia's environment? In this follow up to the highly successful book Ten Commitments: Reshaping the Lucky Country's Environment, Australia's leading environmental thinkers have written provocative chapters on what must be done to tackle Australia's environmental problems - in terms of policies, on-ground actions and research. Each chapter begins with a brief overview of the 10 key tasks that need to be addressed in a given field, and then each issue is discussed in more detail.
Chapters are grouped into ecosystems, sectors and cross-cutting themes. Topics include: deserts, rangelands, temperate eucalypt woodlands, tropical savanna landscapes, urban settlements, forestry management , tropical and temperate marine ecosystems, tropical rainforests, alpine ecosystems, freshwater ecosystems, coasts, islands, soils, fisheries, agriculture, mining, grazing, tourism, industry and manufacturing, protected areas, Indigenous land and sea management, climate change, water, biodiversity, population, human health, fire, energy and more.
Ten Commitments Revisited is a must read for politicians, policy makers, decision makers, practitioners and others with an interest in Australia's environment.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Melbourne
Australia
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Photographs and line art
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
611 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4863-0167-6 (9781486301676)
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Professor David B. Lindenmayer AO has worked as a researcher on Australian farms for more than 23 years. He has a particular interest in improving environmental conditions on farm properties, including protecting remnant native vegetation as well as restoring and replanting it. He specializes in establishing and maintaining ecological large-scale, long-term research and monitoring programs on farms. He has co-authored a number of other books, including Natural Asset Farming and Restoring Farm Woodlands for Wildlife.