Ten Commitments
Reshaping the Lucky Country's Environment
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2008
291 pages
978-0-643-09715-5 (ISBN)
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In Ten Commitments: Reshaping the Lucky Country's Environment, leading environmental thinkers in Australia have written provocative chapters on environmental issues facing the nation. Each chapter includes 10 key issues that must be urgently addressed to improve Australia's environment. The book is organised by ecosystem, by sector and by cross-cutting themes. Topics include: deserts, rangelands, woodlands, tropical savannas, urban settlements, forestry, tropical and temperate marine ecosystems, tropical rainforest, alpine and aquatic ecosystems, coasts, fisheries, agriculture, mining, grazing, tourism, climate change, earth systems, water, biodiversity, policy and institutional reforms, the private sector, human population, health, fire, emergency management, Indigenous land management and energy. With over 40 experts weighing in on Australia's most pressing issues, this is a must-read for anyone interested in the environment.
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Ten Commitments
Reshaping the Lucky Country's Environment
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10/2008
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Eulogy for Peter Cullen
- Introduction
- Ecosystems
- Deserts
- Rangelands
- Temperate eucalypt woodlands
- Tropical savannas
- Urban settlements
- Forests, forestry and forest management
- Tropical marine ecosystems
- Temperate marine systems
- Tropical rainforests
- Alpine ecosystems
- Rivers, wetlands and estuaries
- Coasts
- Sectors
- Fisheries
- Agriculture
- Mining
- Grazing
- Tourism
- Cross-cutting themes
- Climate change
- The future of Australia's environment in the Anthropocene
- Water
- Biodiversity
- The private sector
- Population
- Sustaining Australia's health
- Landscape fires
- Emergency management
- Energy
- Indigenous land and sea management
- Policy and institutional reforms
- Synthesis and overview
- Synthesis and overview
- Index
