| Description |
xviii, 366 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Chapter One: Key Themes 1 -- Resources and State Developmentalism 1 -- "Nation State" and "National" Strategies 3 -- Kuznets curves 3 -- Infrastructure failure 5 -- Measuring Progress 5 -- Disturbance and complex systems 8 -- Four fundamental "truths" 9 -- The Legacy of History 10 -- Recent Elections 13 -- The Natural Heritage Trust 15 -- Corporations and the Environment 16 -- "Environmental discourse" and corporate power 18 -- The media and public relations 19 -- Political and scientific rationality 21 -- Corporate Power 23 -- Tall green tales? 24 -- Risk, "Waste" and the Precautionary Approach 25 -- Regions under stress 28 -- The Major Themes 29 -- The natural resource management system 30 -- The conflict framework 31 -- "Claims" and "claiming" 34 -- Subsidiary themes 35 -- Chapter Two: Economy, Environment and Globalisation 40 -- Policy Prescription and Implementation 41 -- Recent Developments in Australia 44 -- State of the Environment (SoE) Reporting 47 -- Trade Liberalisation and Protectionism 49 -- Neo-protectionism 51 -- Restructuring and the culture of competition 53 -- Economy and Environment 56 -- Job creation 59 -- Accordism 60 -- Symbolism at the International Level 61 -- Risk and the finance sector 62 -- Risk and the marine environment 65 -- The 1992 "Earth Summit" and Beyond 66 -- Rhetoric and reality 68 -- The flowering of corporate environmentalism ? 69 -- Grass-Roots Concern 71 -- Public "input" 73 -- A Cluster of Problems 74 -- Environment and health 75 -- "Solutions" or "Dilemmas" ? 78 -- Negotiating With Environmental and Indigenous Groups 81 -- The citizen voice 84 -- Contested Futures 85 -- Stakeholders and interest groups 86 -- Triggers and Driving Forces 89 -- Media attention 90 -- Policy reversal 93 -- Recent Policy Changes 94 -- The Environment Protection and Biodiversity -- Conservation Act 1999 96 -- The States compared 99 -- "Growth" and "Development" 100 -- "Sustainability" 101 -- "Sustainable development" 101 -- The ESD process and subsequent outcomes 103 -- The "chair" of sustainable development 105 -- Chapter Three: Forest Management in Transition 108 -- Indigenous Knowledge and Forest Use 109 -- Future Directions ? 111 -- Corporate interests 114 -- Commercial opportunities 117 -- International Agreements 120 -- Overcutting and environmental effects 123 -- Oppositional Voices 124 -- The State of the Forests 127 -- The Diminishing Forest Estate 132 -- Disagreements over deforestation 134 -- Old-growth forests 135 -- Disturbance 137 -- Native Forests 138 -- Paper Production and Consumption 142 -- Inquiries and contested "truths" 143 -- The Wet Tropics 146 -- Crisis ? What crisis ? 147 -- Lobby Groups and "Accords" 148 -- Multiple Values 151 -- Carbon storage 154 -- Recreation and biodiversity 156 -- Free Market Environmentalism 158 -- Market and Intervention "Failures" 159 -- "Multiple Use" 160 -- A Weak Knowledge Base 161 -- "Sustained"/"sustainable" yield 163 -- The Fraser Island example 165 -- Regional Forest Agreements 166 -- Chapter Four: Tourism - Clean and Green or Environmental -- Disaster? 171 -- Biodiversity and Tourism 171 -- Environmental concern 173 -- "Hard" and "Soft" Tourism 174 -- "Marketing" Nature 176 -- Place-marketing 177 -- A Service Industry 179 -- A fickle industry 180 -- State government involvement 182 -- Turbulence and risk 183 -- Environmental "shocks" 184 -- The "Compatibility" Debate 185 -- Aboriginal ambivalence 186 -- Displacement 189 -- Resource Consumption and Conflict 190 -- Impacts 192 -- Government Involvement 194 -- The National Tourism Strategy 195 -- "Improving" coastal land - Cape York and Anglesea 197 -- Holistic Land Use Planning 200 -- Australia and the "Tourism System" 201 -- Self-Regulation 202 -- Chapter Five: Minerals and Energy Resources 206 -- In the "National Interest" ? 207 -- State developmentalism 210 -- A two-way relationship 211 -- The Federal System 213 -- The export orientation 214 -- State Competition and "Artificial Impediments" 216 -- The Minerals and Petroleum Resources Policy Statement 218 -- New Materials, New Challenges 222 -- The Murray Basin - a new mining frontier ? 223 -- Emerging Dilemmas 224 -- Economic difficulties 226 -- Inquiries Into the Mining Industry 229 -- Life cycle assessment 231 -- Traditional and Advanced Materials 232 -- Increased scarcity ? 232 -- The Mining Industry - Major Changes 234 -- Operational scale 235 -- Regulation 236 -- The Free Entry Principle 237 -- Overseas investment 238 -- Overseas operations and environmental Codes 240 -- Mineral Resources 242 -- "Resources" and "reserves" 243 -- Exploration-production-abandonment 244 -- Ore and energy resource "lifetimes" 245 -- Responses to Scarcity 247 -- Flow-on effects 249 -- The Enhanced Greenhouse Effect 252 -- The Kyoto conference 254 -- A shift away from coal ? 256 -- Emissions Trading 258 -- The Role of Renewables 259 -- Environmental Impacts 259 -- Restoration ecology 262 -- Restoration of damaged ecosystems 265 -- "Multiple Use" 267 -- Mining and national parks 268 -- Chapter Six: Agriculture and Pastoralism 270 -- Boosting biotechnology 270 -- European Impact 271 -- Biophysical Limits 273 -- Neoliberalism and the retreating state 276 -- Grazing pressures 278 -- Land Degradation 279 -- The Vagaries of Climate 283 -- Drought and water demand 283 -- Drought policy 285 -- "Carrying Capacity" 286 -- Connections 287 -- Globalisation and Unsustainability 290 -- Exports 294 -- Scarcity and Experimentation 296 -- Technological Optimism and its Critics 298 -- Biodecline 300 -- Agribusiness 305 -- Corporate concentration 306 -- A New Land Ethic ? 308 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-356) and index |
| Subject |
Agriculture -- Environmental aspects -- Australia.
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Conservation of natural resources -- Australia.
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Environmental policy -- Australia.
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Forest management -- Australia.
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Forests and forestry -- Environmental aspects -- Australia.
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Industries -- Environmental aspects -- Australia.
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Lumber trade -- Environmental aspects -- Australia.
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Mines and mineral resources -- Environmental aspects -- Australia.
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Mineral industries -- Environmental aspects -- Australia.
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Natural resources -- Australia.
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Tourism -- Environmental aspects -- Australia.
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| LC no. |
2005432100 |
| ISBN |
1862873429 |
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