Csiro Publishing: 506 books
Urban Stormwater
Best-Practice Environmental Management Guidelines
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1999
The intense concentration of human activity in urban areas leads to changes in both the quantity and quality of runoff that eventually reaches our streams, lakes, wetlands, estuaries and coasts. The increasing use of impervious surfaces designed to provide smooth and direct pathways for stormwater run-off,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
This book explores the extent to which conservation and development goals in Australia's southern temperate forests can be reconciled. It examines the impacts of wood harvesting, roads, exotic species and other disturbance factors on forest species, communities, habitats and ecosystems.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2008
It is possible to have a great garden anywhere in Australia, even under the toughest water restrictions. Good Gardens with Less Water will show you how. A companion to Kevin Handreck’s best-selling Gardening Down-Under, this new book is a practical guide to gardening with limited water. This beautifully...
Johne's Disease
Current Trends in Research, Diagnosis and Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1989
Johne's disease (paratuberculosis) afflicts cattle worldwide and causes significant economic losses. It is also prevalent in goats and sheep and has been implicated in Johne's disease in humans. The book is divided into six sections covering all aspects of the prevalence, management, diagnosis, control...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Risk and Social Theory in Environmental Management marks a timely contribution, given that environmental management is no longer just about protecting pristine ecosystems and endangered species from anthropogenic harm; it is about calculating and managing the risks to human communities of rapid environmental...
by RC Cambie, J Ash
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
This comprehensive compilation presents the available reports on the medicinal use of Fijian plants in an attractive and readable form using 'everyday' terms as much as possible. The book covers the origin and dispersal of plants, literature, use of medicinal plants within traditional Fijian culture,...
Why Does the World Stay Green?
Nutrition and Survival of Plant-eaters
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2005
Nearly every form of life has the capacity to multiply and increase at a really astonishing rate. Think of plagues of locusts or mice. Clearly, for the vast majority of animals this does not happen, otherwise they would swamp the world and destroy all the plants. So why doesn’t it happen, and why does...
Introduced Dung Beetles in Australia
A Pocket Field Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
This field guide to introduced dung beetles covers all species found in Australia, including two newly introduced species. It will enable farmers, Landcare workers and the interested public to identify and learn about the basic biology of these beetles found in cattle dung.
Social Mix and the City
Challenging the Mixed Communities Consensus in Housing and Urban Planning Policies
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Concern about rising crime rates, high levels of unemployment and anti-social behaviour of youth gangs within particular urban neighbourhoods has reinvigorated public and community debate into just what makes a functional neighbourhood. The nub of the debate is whether concentrating disadvantaged people...
by Keppel Coughlan, Hamish Cresswell, Neil McKenzie
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2002
Soil physical measurements are essential for solving many natural resource management problems. This operational laboratory and field handbook provides, for the first time, a standard set of methods that are cost-effective and well suited to land resource survey. It provides: *practical guidelines on...
WSUD Engineering Procedures: Stormwater
Stormwater
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2005
Managing the urban water cycle needs to be underpinned by key sustainability principles of water consumption, water recycling, waste minimisation and environmental protection. The integration of urban water cycle management with urban planning and design is known as Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD)....
Flora of the Hunter Region
Endemic Trees and Larger Shrubs
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
The Hunter Region, between the Hawkesbury and Manning rivers in eastern New South Wales, hosts a rich diversity of vegetation, with many species found nowhere else. Spanning an area from the coast to the tablelands and slopes, its rainforests, wet and dry sclerophyll forests, woodlands, heathlands,...
Trees for Saltland
A Guide to Selecting Native Species for Australia
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
This book aims to assist in the management of soil salinity by describing a range of species tolerant of saline soils. 60 species are listed with descriptions containing botanical features, growth characteristics, preferred soils, climates and more. The introductory sections of this book provide general...
by TJ Hatton
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
This paper addresses the need to model recharge to groundwater systems at the scale of whole catchments. It looks at developing the right conceptual model of how water moves through a given landscape for both homogeneous and heterogeneous catchments. One-dimensional recharge models and three-dimensional...