Murray River Country discusses the water crisis from a unique perspective the intimate stories of love and loss from the perspectives of Aboriginal people who know the inland rivers as their traditional country.
This book examines the Murray-Darling Basin's flood history as well as contemporary national debates about climate change and competing access to water for livelihoods, industries and ecosystems. It provides an important new historical perspective on this significant region of i…
Australian Environmental Law: Norms, Principles and Rules, 3E provides a detailed examination of the fundamental concepts and principles of the environmental legal system in Australia. This new edition updates relevant State, Territory and Commonwealth legislation and case law a…
Indigenous peoples, legal and other professionals have actively engaged a number of international and national legal mechanisms to achieve degees of self governance in Canada, the United States, Greenland, Denmark, Norway, New Zealand and Australia. This title presents these pre…
If Hardin's (1968) widely cited case of a pasture accessible to everyone were the standard for public natural resources, those resources would have the tendency to be depleted, degraded, destroyed or overexploited. Hardin explains that each herdsman found it more profitable to g…
This report brings together a number of studies undertaken on all aspects of sea dumping in Australia and its Territories. These were previously available in a number of disparate sources and have been collated here for convenience. At the date of publication, sea dumping in Aus…
One of the major problems facing practitioners and scientists working with water management is how to integrate knowledge and experiences from scientific, policy and stakeholder perspectives. In this book this science-policy-stakeholder interface (SPSI) is examined both analytic…
Unsolved Problems in Ecology
Leading ecologists discuss some of the most compelling open questions in the field todayUnsolved Problems in Ecology brings together many of the world's leading ecologists to discuss the most fundamental research questions confronting the field today. This diverse and thought-pr…