Csiro Publishing: 506 books
Australia's Fossil Heritage
A Catalogue of Important Australian Fossil Sites
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
The National Heritage List was created in January 2004 to recognise, celebrate and protect places of outstanding heritage value to the nation. National heritage encompasses those places that reveal the richness of Australia's extraordinarily diverse natural, historic and Indigenous heritage. One aspect...
Managing Arsenic in the Environment
From Soil to Human Health
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2006
Arsenic is one of the most toxic and carcinogenic elements in the environment. This book brings together the current knowledge on arsenic contamination worldwide, reviewing the field, highlighting common themes and pointing to key areas needing future research. Contributions discuss methods for accurate...
Contested Country
Local and Regional Natural Resources Management in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
In Contested Country, leading researchers in planning, geography, environmental studies and public policy critically review Australia's environmental management under the auspices of the Natural Heritage Trust over the past decade, and identify the challenges that must be met in the national quest for...
Discovering Australian Flora
An Australian National Botanic Gardens Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Australia’s complex, beautiful and diverse flora is showcased in stunning botanic gardens across the continent. Through exquisite colour photographs taken at the Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG), Fanny Karouta-Manasse celebrates the minute and intriguing details of these plants. Discovering...
Interpreting Soil Test Results
What Do All the Numbers Mean?
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2007
Interpreting Soil Test Results is a practical reference for those who need to interpret results from laboratory analysis of soil. It has a comprehensive listing of the soil properties relevant to most environmental and natural land resource issues and investigations. The precursor to this book, What...
Planning Melbourne
Lessons for a Sustainable City
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
For more than a decade, Melbourne has had the fastest-growing population of any Australian capital city. It is expanding outward while also growing upward through vast new high-rise developments in the inner suburbs. With an estimated 1.6 million additional homes needed by 2050, planners and policymakers...
by Tony Hall
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
A substantial backyard has long been considered an iconic feature of the Australian suburb. Nevertheless, during the 1990s, a dramatic change occurred: substantial backyards largely disappeared from new suburban houses in Australia. Whatever the size of lot, the dwelling now covers most of its developable...
Natural Resources and Environmental Justice
Australian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Environmental management involves making decisions about the governance of natural resources such as water, minerals or land, which are inherently decisions about what is just or fair. Yet, there is little emphasis on justice in environmental management research or practical guidance on how to achieve...
Off the Plan
The Urbanisation of the Gold Coast
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The Gold Coast is a well-known and loved destination for local and international tourists, a city of surf and sun, pleasure and leisure. However, it is also one of the fastest growing cities in Australia, occupying the largest urban footprint outside the state capitals. How did the Gold Coast come to...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Oil spills can be difficult to manage, with reporting frequently delayed. Too often, by the time responders arrive at the scene, the slick has moved, dissolved, dispersed or sunk. This Oil Spill Monitoring Handbook provides practical advice on what information is likely required following the accidental...
Biochar
A Guide to Analytical Methods
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Interest in biochar among soil and environment researchers has increased dramatically over the past decade. Biochar initially attracted attention for its potential to improve soil fertility and to uncouple the carbon cycle, by storing carbon from the atmosphere in a form that can remain stable for hundreds...
Sustainable Coastal Management and Climate Adaptation
Global Lessons from Regional Approaches in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Australians are famous for our love of the coast, although in many places this 'love' has caused serious and often irreversible impacts. The sustainable management of our society's many uses of the coast is complex and challenging. While a wealth of knowledge exists about the coast, this is not always...
Changing Land Management
Adoption of New Practices by Rural Landholders
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
There is a rich and extensive history of research into factors that encourage farmers to change their land management practices, or inhibit them from doing so. Yet this research is often under-utilised in practice. Changing Land Management provides key insights from past and cutting-edge research to...
Land Use Intensification
Effects on Agriculture, Biodiversity and Ecological Processes
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
There can be little doubt that there are truly colossal challenges associated with providing food, fibre and energy for an expanding world population without further accelerating already rapid rates of biodiversity loss and undermining the ecosystem processes on which we all depend. These challenges...