| Description |
iv, 124 pages ; 30 cm |
| Series |
Australia, state of the environment. Environmental indicator report |
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Australia, state of the environment. Environmental indicator report
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| Contents |
Background -- Commonwealth state of the environment reporting -- Environmental indicators -- The 1996 baseline: our current state of knowledge and understanding -- What are land resources? -- An ecosystem approach to indicator development for land resources -- Essential land ecosystem functions -- A model framework for state of environment indicators of land resources -- Indicators of ecosystem stability, instability and resilience -- Current hypotheses and explanations -- Distinguishing natural causes and human interventions -- Interrelations between disturbance, spatial scale and time -- Reporting framework and regionalisations used -- Land ecosystems in the Australian socio-political context -- Population: settlement distribution and legal framework -- Effect of populations: settlement metabolic flows and total land use impact -- Land tenure and titles, by land use -- Land value, natural resource value and environmental value -- Community-based data for national indicators -- Indicators of human impacts on ecosystem function -- Rationale for the selection of indicators -- Issue 1: Accelerated erosion and loss of surface soil -- Issue 2: Physical changes to natural habitats -- Issue 3: Hydrological imbalance -- Issue 4: Introduction of novel biota into native habitats and communities -- Issue 5: Nutrient and salt cycling -- Issue 6: Soil and land pollution -- Relevance of indicators to specific land uses -- Conservation, protected and vacant lands -- Forested regions -- Agricultural lands (excluding pastoralism) -- Rangelands used for pastoralism -- Urban, peri-urban and multiple land uses -- Mining areas -- Research needs -- References -- Appendices: 1. Considered and rejected indicators -- 2. Tables of pressures, conditions and responses and equivalent indicators.dition of geneti |
| Notes |
"with assistance from members of the CRC" |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-112) |
| Notes |
Also available electronically on the WWW |
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Commonwealth of Australia 1998 |
| Subject |
Environmental indicators -- Australia.
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Environmental monitoring -- Australia.
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Land use -- Australia -- Evaluation.
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Land use -- Australia -- Measurement -- Standards.
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Soil conservation -- Australia.
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| Author |
Australia. Department of the Environment.
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| LC no. |
00001393 |
| ISBN |
0642545227 |
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064254526X |
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