Research Catalog

Title

Biodiversity : integrating conservation and production : case studies from Australian farms, forests and fisheries / editors, Ted Lefroy ... [et al.].

Publication

Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Publishing, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lefroy, E. C. (Edward C.)
• Biodiversity: balancing conservation and production (2007 : Launceston, Tas.)

Description

x, 259 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Summary

"In June 2007, 20 years after the Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke announced the Decade of Landcare, 250 farmers, foresters and fishers from all states met in Launceston as guests of the community Group Tamar Natural Resource Management to reflect on the question Is it possible to be good environmental managers and prosper in our businesses? This book contains 17 of their stories. They include heroic accounts of families who changed their way of farming and their relationship to the land so significantly they found they could stop hand feeding stock during a drought and see the bush coming back. It describes the experience with bush tenders that were over subscribed as farmers competed with each other for stewardship payments to manage their grazing lands for endangered ground-nesting birds as well as beef and wool. And a group of wheat growers who plant patches of grassland for beneficial insects that save them tens of thousands of dollars a year in pesticide bills. Australia's experiment in community based environmental repair is unique in the world, and there has been no shortage of analysis by bureaucrats, academics and environmentalists. This collection of case studies gives us the view from ground level. As well as tales of environmental hope, there are also messages about the limits of duty of care, the need to share the costs of achieving society's expectations, and the possibility of learning from unlikely places. "--Provided by publisher.

Subjects

• Case studies
• Agriculture > Environmental aspects > Australia > Case studies
• Plant diversity conservation > Australia > Case studies
• Vegetation management > Australia > Case studies
• Biodiversity conservation > Australia > Case studies
• Biodiversity > Australia > Case studies

Genre/Form

Case studies

Note

• Keynote addresses and case studies from conference titled Biodiversity: balancing conservation and production, Launceston, Tasmania, June 2007.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

CONSERVATION AND PRODUCTION -- 1. Science, ethics and emotion in the politics of biodiversity / Pete Hay - 2. Finding opportunity in the challenge / Severn Cullis-Suzuki - 3. Reflections on landscape integration : lessons from the past and principles for the future / David Lindenmayer - 4. Consuming the Earth / Barney Foran -- PERSONAL CASE STUDIES -- 5. Balancing the three-legged stools : a case study of forest conversion and conservation / Ian Dickenson - 6. Farming from first principles / David Marsh - 7. Environmental restoration as a precursor to production gains / John and Robyn Ive - 8. Regenerative agriculture : the case for dialogue with nature / Graham Strong - 9. People and their sense of place / Cynthia and Tom Dunbabin -- GROUPS, COMMUNITIES AND CATCHMENTS -- 10. Managing floodplains in northern Australian / Tony Searle - 11. The value of biodiversity to integrated pest management / Cam Nicholson - 12. Using production improvements to interest farmers in nature conservation / David Walker and Rob Frend - 13. Testing market-based instruments for conservation in northern Victoria / Carla Miles - 14. Working with farmers to improve habitat for ground-nesting birds / Alexandra Knight and Stuart Whitten - 15. Achieving regional conservation targets through market-based instruments in southern Queensland / Kate Steel - 16. The Australian rice industry's Environmental Champions program / Janelle McGufficke ... et al.] - 17. Profitable and biodiverse wood production : the Land, Water & Wool program / Jann Williams and Mary Goodacre -- RESEARCH GUIDING CONSERVATION -- 18. How research influences management : a case study of barramundi in northern Australia / Janet Ley - 19. Tailoring forest management to the habitat needs of the giant velvet worm / Simon Grove, Marie Yee and Laura Barrer Closs - 20. New approaches to tackling fisheries bycatch in tropical prawn trawling / David Maynard - 21. Measuring the biodiversity values of a small-scale farm forestry enterprise in northern Tasmania / Greg Unwin, John Lord and Arthur Lyons -- CONCLUSIONS -- 22. The Tamar Principles / Bernard Lloyd, Ted Lefroy and Kay Bailey - 23. Closing the adaptive management loop : why practical experience is necessary but not sufficient and science is essential but not always right / Ted Leroy.

ISBN

• 9780643094581 (pbk.)
• 064309458X (pbk.)

OCLC

• 262980777
• SCSB-12352695

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library