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xiii, 298 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
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1. Introduction: improving the evidence base for natural resource management/ Lefroy, Curtis, Jakeman and McKee -- Pt. I: Managing water quality in agricultural catchments. 2. Modelling the influences of land use and land management on water quality/ Cotching, Broad, Lisson and Kelly -- 3. Measuring and modelling the impacts of land use on ecological river condition/ Davies, Magierowski, Read and Horrigan -- 4. Improving the utility and sensitivity of estuarine monitoring/ Ross, Crawford, Gibson, Gallagher, Beard and McGowan -- 5. Understanding the effectiveness of vegetated streamside management zones for protecting water quality/ Smethurst, Petrone and Neary -- 6. Management of Tasmania's riparian zones by rural landholders/ Curtis and Rigby -- 7. Spatial diagnosis of catchment water quality: using multiple lines of evidence/ Verburg, Cresswell, Bende-Michl, Gibson and Hairsine -- 8. Lessons from integrated bio-economic modelling in the George catchment, Tasmania/ Krogt -- 9. Lessons from studying water quality in agricultural catchments/ Lefroy, Grun, Jakeman and McKee -- |
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Pt. II: Vegetation change in rural landscapes. 10. Measuring change in vegetation extent at regional and property scales/ Kyle, Duncan and Newell -- 11. Exploring landscape history through integrated participatory research: experiences from Victoria/ Race, Curtis, Kyle, Merritt and Park -- 12. Development of a state-and-transition model to guide investment in woodland vegetation condition/ Rumpff, Duncan, Vesk and Wintle -- 13. Patch Data Viewer: a tool for planning investment in vegetation extent and condition from patch to regional scales/ Norton and Lacey -- 14. Measuring the components of vegetation condition using remote sensing/ Jones, Lechner, Sheffield, Miura, Farmer, Reinke and Norton -- 15. The role of social norms in natural resource management/ Minato, Curtis and Allan -- 16. Understanding rural landholders' responses to climate change/ Rogers, Curtis and Mazur -- 17. What we learned about measuring change in vegetion extent and condition/ Lefroy and Park -- |
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Pt. III: Integrating science and practice. 18. Bayesian networks as integration tools in collaborative research/ Ticehurst, Pollino and Merritt -- 19. Research to adoption: the role of the knowledge broker in participatory research/ Park, Pinkard and McLennan -- 20. Evaluating collaborative landscape research: views of participants and end users/ Kelly -- 21. Integrating science for landscape management/ Lefroy, Curtis, Jakeman and McKee |
| Summary |
In 2005, researchers from four Australian universities and CSIRO joined forces with environmental managers from three state agencies and six regional catchment management authorities to answer the question: 'Can we detect the influence of public environmental programs on the condition of our natural resources?' This was prompted by a series of national audits of Australia's environmental programs that could find no evidence of public investment improving the condition of waterways, soils and native vegetation, despite major public programs investing more than $4.2 billion in environmental repair over the last 20 years. Landscape Logic describes how this collaboration of 42 researchers and environmental managers went about the research. It describes what they found and what they learned about the challenge of attributing cause to environmental change. While public programs had been responsible for increase in vegetation extent, there was less evidence for improvement in vegetation condition and water quality. In many cases critical levels of intervention had not been reached, interventions were not sufficiently mature to have had any measurable impact, monitoring had not been designed to match the spatial and temporal scales of the interventions, and interventions lacked sufficiently clear objectives and metrics to ever be detectable. In the process, however, new knowledge emerged on disturbance thresholds in river condition, diagnosing sources of pollution in river systems, and the application and uptake of state-and-transition and Bayesian network models to environmental management |
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Australian |
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Conservation of the environment (Australia) |
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Landscape architecture & design (Australia) |
| Notes |
Cover title |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available online |
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System requirements: Internet connectivity, World Wide Web browser. Downloading of an entire book requires Adobe Digital Editions. Use of bookmarks requires individual registration with Amigo Reader |
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CSIRO 2012 |
| Subject |
Agricultural landscape management -- Australia.
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Environmental management -- Australia.
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Forest landscape management -- Australia.
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Landscape assessment -- Australia.
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Natural resources -- Australia -- Management.
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Water quality management -- Australia.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326
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| Author |
Lefroy, E. C. (Edward C.)
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Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (Australia)
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| LC no. |
2012418041 |
| ISBN |
9780643103542 (paperback) |
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