| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 271 pages) : illustrations |
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Cover; Preliminaries; Acknowledgements; Preface; Contents; Australian Science, Australia's Future: The Role of Science and Technology in Achieving a Preferred Future for Australia; Biotechnology and the Biological Industries in the 21st Century; Information Technology & Telecommunications; Manufacturing in the 21st Century: A Holistic Future; Technology and the Food Industry; Trophis Australis: Diet, Health and Market Segmentation in Australia; Mining Today, Australia's Tomorrow -- Exploration & Mining Globally to 2020; Australia's Offshore Oil, Gas and Minerals Industries in 2020 |
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Advancing Australia: The Coming of Age of our Coasts and OceansPredicting the Environment: Living with Variability; Farming without Harming: How Australia Made Rural Industries Sustainable; The Futures of a Wide Brown Land: Thriving or Surviving |
| Summary |
What is Australia's future? What role will science and technology play in shaping it? Challenge to Change: Australia in 2020 highlights the choices and options Australians face. It will stimulate thought and discussion about what the Australian people want. In this book, CSIRO brings together some of its leading scientists to give their ideas of what the future holds |
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Science and state Australia |
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Technology and state Australia |
| Notes |
"[Papers] presented at the 1994 Congress of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, held in Geelong, Victoria"--Page vi |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Technological innovations -- Australia -- Congresses
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Research -- Australia -- Congresses
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Industries -- Australia -- Congresses
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Industries.
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Research.
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Technological innovations.
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Australia.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Eckersley, Richard
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Jeans, Kevin
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ANZAAS (Association). Congress (63rd : 1994 : Geelong, Vic.)
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CSIRO (Australia)
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| ISBN |
9780643097186 |
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064309718X |
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