| Description |
iv, 68 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 |
Preface -- Summary -- Background -- Commonwealth state of the environment reporting -- Environmental indicators -- Scope of biological diversity -- Indicators for biological diversity -- Conceptual and policy approaches to biological diversity -- Approach to selecting indicators -- Regionalisations and scales for reporting on national environmental indicators -- Vegetation types -- Target taxa -- Kay indicators -- Pressure: human population growth, density and demand -- Pressure: clearing/fragmentation/degradation of native vegetation or marine habitat -- Pressure: alien or exotic species -- Pressure: genetically modified organisms (GMOs) -- Pressure: pollution -- Pressure: altered fire regimes -- Pressure: human-induced climate change -- Pressure: harvesting -- Indicators of condition of biological diversity -- Condition: condition of genetic diversity -- Condition: condition of species diversity -- Condition: condition of ecosystem diversity -- Indicators of responses to pressures and condition of biological diversity -- Response: regional planning and management, and integrated land and sea management -- Response: establishment and management of a comprehensive, adequate and representative system of protected areas -- Response: knowledge of biological diversity and existing conservation arrangements -- Response: management of threatened species and ecological communities -- Response: ex-situ conservation -- Response: harvesting of native biota -- Resposne: retention and management of native biota -- Response: control of alien species and genetically modified organisms -- Response: control of the impacts of pollution on biological diversity -- Response: reduction of the impacts of altered fire regimes on biological diversity -- Response: minimising the potential impacts of human-induced climate change on biological diversity -- Response: planning to minimise the impacts of development on biological diversity -- Response: improving our knowledge of biological diversity -- Response: involving the community in conservation and management of biological diversity -- response: Australia's international role in conservation of biological diversity |
| Analysis |
Biodiversity |
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Environmental auditing |
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Environmental indicators |
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Federal issue |
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Local government issue |
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State issue |
| Notes |
Pollock Hall collection |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-63) |
| Notes |
Also available electronically on the WWW |
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Commonwealth of Australia 1998 |
| Subject |
Biodiversity conservation -- Australia.
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Biodiversity -- Standards -- Australia.
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Biodiversity -- Australia -- Evaluation.
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Biodiversity -- Australia -- Measurement.
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Environmental indicators -- Australia.
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Environmental monitoring -- Australia.
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| Author |
Hill, B. J. (Burke Joseph), 1937-
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Margules, C. R. (Christopher Robert)
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Australia. Department of the Environment.
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| ISBN |
0642545219 |
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064254526X |
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