Environment Publications
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New publications
- Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts Annual Report 2007-08 (order printed copy)
- Restoring the Balance in the Murray-Darling Basin Irrigator-led Group Proposals (fact sheet) - October 2008 (order printed copy)
- Director of National Parks Annual Report 2007-08 (order printed copy)
- The North Marine Bioregional Plan: Bioregional Profile and Background Reports (CD) - 2008 (order printed copy)
- Caring for our Country Outcomes 2008-13 (booklet) (order printed copy)
- Natural Temperate Grassland of the Victorian Volcanic Plain, EPBC Policy Statement 3.8 - 2008 (order printed copy)
- Pills, plants and animals - A guide to complementary medicines trade and conservation - 2008
- Restoring the Balance in the Murray-Darling Basin - 2008 (order printed copy)
- Stakeholder Consultative Committee - 2008
- The Australian Government's Plan for Water - 2008 (order printed copy)
- Recovery Plans Available for Public Comment
Air quality
Brochures and fact sheets
- Air toxics - 2005 (order printed copy)
- Carbon Monoxide (CO) - 2005 (order printed copy)
- Ground-level Ozone (O3) - 2005 (order printed copy)
- Hot Tips for Cleaner Wood Heating - 2007 (order printed copy)
- Lead (Pb) - 2005
- National Standards for Criteria 1 Air Pollutants in Australia - 2005 (order printed copy)
- Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) - 2005 (order printed copy)
- Particles - 2005 (order printed copy)
- Setting National Fuel Quality Standards: Liquefied Petroleum Gas ('Autogas') Standards - October 2001
- Smoke from Biomass Burning - 2005 (order printed copy)
- Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) - 2005 (order printed copy)
- Woodheaters and Woodsmoke - 2005 (order printed copy)
Books and reports
- Ensuring the licensed installation of split system air conditioners in Australia - Discussion paper, February 2007
- Management of Petrol Octane Enhancing Additives/Products - Paper 2A: Setting National Fuel Quality Standards - November 2000 (order printed copy)
- National standard for biodiesel - discussion paper March 2003
- Setting the Ethanol Limit in Petrol: An issues paper - 2002
- Standardising Diesel/Biodiesel Blends: Discussion paper - November 2006
- State of the Air: National Ambient Air Quality Status and Trends Report 1991-2001
- State of Knowledge Report: Air Toxics and Indoor Air Quality in Australia - 2001
- A Status Report to the Community: Living Cities - Air Toxics Program (order printed copy)
- Technical Report No 1: Toxic Emissions from Diesel Vehicles in Australia - May 2003 (order printed copy)
- Technical Report No 2: Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Ambient Air in Australia - October 1999 (order printed copy)
- Technical Report No 3: Review of Data on Heavy Metals in Ambient Air in Australia - May 2001 (order printed copy)
- Technical Report No 4: Review of Literature on Residential Firewood Use, Wood-Smoke and Air Toxics - June 2002
- Technical Report No 5: Emissions from Domestic Solid Fuel Burning Appliances - March 2002
- Technical Report No 6: BTEX Personal Exposure Monitoring in Four Australian Cities - May 2003 (order printed copy)
- Technical Report No 7: Air Quality and Child Health - October 2003
- Technical Report No 8: Personal Monitoring of Selected VOCs: The Contribution of Woodsmoke to Exposure - May 2004 (order printed copy)
- Technical Report No 9: Unflued Gas Appliances and Air Quality in Australian Homes - June 2004 (order printed copy)
More Air Quality Publications
See also: Ozone Protection
Biodiversity
Brochures and fact sheets
- Be Smart with Seed - 2004
- Biodiversity - Nature's Variety, Our Heritage, Our Future - Brochure (revised 2001) (order printed copy)
- Biodiversity Success Stories Case Studies - June 2006
- Biodiversity - On our Agenda (order printed copy)
- Biodiversity on the Edge (order printed copy)
- Biodiversity and Local Government (order printed copy)
- Biodiversity Sea Change (order printed copy)
- Caring for Biodiversity in the Tanami (order printed copy)
- Crossing the Border for Biodiversity (order printed copy)
- A Growing Concern (order printed copy)
- Incentives for Conserving Biodiversity (order printed copy)
- Indigenous Knowledge Helps Manage our Land (order printed copy)
- Native Grasses: a Boon to Graziers (order printed copy)
- Protecting Biodiversity: Part of Farming (order printed copy)
- Revegetating Cleared Land (order printed copy)
- Saving South Australia's Mid North Grasslands
- Seeding the Future
- Station Hands... Seeing the Land Anew (order printed copy)
- Desert Fauna - International Year of Deserts and Desertification fact sheet - 2006 (order printed copy)
- The Desert People of Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park - International Year of Deserts and Desertification fact sheet - 2006 (order printed copy)
- Deserts in Australia - International Year of Deserts and Desertification fact sheet - 2006 (order printed copy)
- Major Vegetation Groups in Australia: information for natural resource managers, schools and researchers - 2006
- National Biodiversity and Climate Change Action Plan 2004-2007: Summary Brochure (order printed copy)
Books and reports
- Biodiversity Conservation Research - Australia's Priorities - ANZECC June 2001 (order printed copy)
- Biodiversity Series
- No. 1 - Biodiversity and its Value - 1993
- No. 2 - Australia's Biodiversity - an Overview of Selected Significant Components- 1995
- No. 3 - Country in Flames - Proceedings of the 1994 Symposium on Biodiversity & Fire in North Australia - 1995
- No. 4 - Refugia for Biological Diversity in Arid and Semi-arid Australia - 1995
- No. 5 - Two Way Track - Biodiversity Conservation and Ecotourism - 1995
- No. 6 - Native Vegetation Clearance, Habitat, Loss and Biodiversity Decline: an Overview of Recent Native Vegetation Clearance in Australia and its Implications for Biodiversity - 1995
- No. 8 - Fire and Biodiversity: The Effects and Effectiveness of Fire Management - Proceedings of the Conference held 8-9 October 1994, Footscray, Melbourne - 1996
- No. 9 - Reimbursing The Future: An evaluation of motivational, voluntary, price-based, property-right, and regulatory incentives for the conservation of biodiversity - Part 1, 1996
- No. 10 - Approaches to Bioregional Planning - Part 1, Proceedings and Part 2, Background Papers to the Conference, 1996 - only Part 1 available (order printed copy)
- Biodiversity - Nature's Variety, Our Heritage, Our Future - Booklet (revised 2001) (order printed copy)
- Climate Change Impacts on Biodiversity in Australia - June 2003
- An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Environmental Surrogates and Modelling Techniques in Predicting the Distribution of Biological Diversity - 1999
- Hygiene Protocols for the Prevention and Control of Diseases (Particularly Beak and Feather Disease) in Australian Birds - 2006
- Making Economic Valuation Work for Biodiversity Conservation - May 2005 (order printed copy)
- Managing for Biodiversity in the Rangelands Summary Reports
- Assessing Financial and Environmental Impacts of Management Options - June 2006 (order printed copy)
- Biodiversity Monitoring in the Rangelands: A Way Forward (Vol. 2) - 2007 (order printed copy)
- Fire Management - 2005 (order printed copy)
- Industry Guidelines for Sustainability - June 2006
- Managing Feral Animals and their Impacts: Managing for Biodiversity in the Rangelands - 2007 (order printed copy)
- Management of Total Grazing Pressure - 2005 (order printed copy)
- Water Management: Managing for Biodiversity in the Rangelands - 2007 (order printed copy)
- Weed Management - June 2006 (order printed copy)
- Marine Biodiversity at Booderee National Park: Field Surveys of the Marine Community - 2006 (order printed copy)
- National Biodiversity and Climate Change Action Plan 2004-2007 (order printed copy)
- National Koala Conservation Strategy - 1998 (ANZECC 59) (order printed copy)
- National Local Government Biodiversity Survey: Executive Summary - 2000
- National Objectives and Targets for Biodiversity Conservation 2001-2005 - June 2001
- National Strategy for the Conservation of Australia's Biological Diversity - 1996 (order printed copy)
- Nationally Consistent Approach to Access to and the Utilisation of Australia's Native Genetic and Biochemical Resources - 2002 (order printed copy)
- Numbers of Living Species in Australia and the World - 2006
- Rainforest Animals - Atlas of Vertebrates Endemic to Australia's Wet Tropics (order printed copy)
- Review of the National Strategy for the Conservation of Australia's Biological Diversity - ANZECC June 2001
- The State of Australia's Birds 2003
- The State of Australia's Birds 2004: Water, Wetlands and Birds
- The State of Australia's Birds 2005: Woodlands and Birds (order printed copy)
- The State of Australia's Birds 2006: Invasive Species
- The State of Australia's Birds 2007: Birds in a Changing Climate - January 2008 (order printed copy)
- Technical Papers
- No. 1 - Australia's Biodiversity - Response to Fire: Plants, birds and invertebrates - 1999
- No. 2 - Landscape Planning for Biodiversity Conservation in Agricultural Regions - a Case Study form the Wheatbelt of Western Australia - 1999
- No. 3 - The Effects of Artificial Sources of Water on Rangeland Biodiversity - 1999
- Understanding the Nationally Consistent Approach for Access to and the Utilisation of Australia's Native Genetic and Biochemical Resources (NCA) - 2003
- Water Management: Managing for Biodiversity in the Rangelands
- Wind farm collision risk for birds - March 2006
Posters (limit of 6, available within Australia only)
- Biodiversity - Nature's Variety, Our Heritage, Our Future (order printed copy)
- Carl Linnaeus: Father of Taxonomy - 2007
- Fungi and their Kingdoms - 2002 (order printed copy)
- Major Vegetation Groups in Australia - 2006 (order printed copy)
- Mites in the Rainforest - a Wealth of Unexplored Diversity (order printed copy)
- Native Vegetation in Australia - 2006 (order printed copy)
More Biodiversity Publications
See also: Vegetation
Related publications: Australian Natural Resources Atlas
Caring for our Country
Brochures and fact sheets
- Box Gum Grassy Woodland Project Prospectus - 2008 (order printed copy)
- Caring for our Country - March 2008 (order printed copy)
- Caring for our Country: a better outcome for Australia's environment and natural resources - March 2008 (order printed copy)
- Caring for our Country Outcomes 2008-13 (booklet) (order printed copy)
- Caring for our Country: regional delivery - March 2008 (order printed copy)
- Community Coastcare overview - 2008 (order printed copy)
See also: Natural Resource Management
Chemicals
Brochures and fact sheets
- Dioxins and the Environment
- Dioxins and Health
- Dioxins in Other Countries
- What is the National Dioxins Program?
Books and reports
- Assessment of Concentrations of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether Flame Retardants in Aquatic Environments in Australia - November 2006 (order printed copy)
- Assessment of Concentrations of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether Flame Retardants in the Australian Population: Levels in Blood - November 2006 (order printed copy)
- Assessment of Concentrations of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether Flame Retardants in Indoor Environments in Australia - November 2006 (order printed copy)
- Dioxins in Australia: A Summary of the Findings of Studies Conducted from 2001 to 2004 - May 2004
- Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals: Information Paper - 1998
- National Dioxins Program Technical Reports - May 2004
- National Dioxins Program: National Action Plan for Addressing Dioxins in Australia - 2005
- National Profile of Chemicals Management Infrastructure in Australia - 1998
- Sources of Dioxins and Furans in Australia: Air Emissions (Revised Edition) - May 2002
- Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants - Australia's National Implementation Plan - July 2006
Databases
See also: Hazardous Waste, Scheduled Waste
Departmental
Brochures and fact sheets
- Australia's unique environment and heritage screen saver
- Marine and Tropical Research Sciences Facility: Research Investment Strategy (booklet) - March 2006 (order printed copy)
Books and reports
- Annual Reports
- Department of the Environment and Water Resources Annual Report 2006-07: Volumes 1 and 2 (order printed copy)
- Department of the Environment and Heritage Annual Report 2005-06 - Volumes 1 and 2 (order printed copy)
- Department of the Environment and Heritage Annual Report 2003-2004 (order printed copy)
- Department of the Environment and Heritage Triple Bottom Line Summary Report 2004-05 (order printed copy)
- Department of the Environment and Heritage Triple Bottom Line Report 2003-04 (order printed copy)
- Department of the Environment and Water Resources Sustainability Summary Report 2005-06 (order printed copy)
- Director of National Parks Annual Report 2007-08 (order printed copy)
- Director of National Parks: Annual Report 2006-07 (order printed copy)
- Director of National Parks Annual Report 2004-05 (order printed copy)
- Director of National Parks Annual Report 2005-06 (order printed copy)
- Australian Government Department of the Environment and Heritage - Heritage Strategy - December 2005
- Budget Papers
- Collective agreement
- Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities Programme Outline - 2005 (order printed copy)
- Compliance and enforcement policy
- Department of the Environment and Heritage Corporate Plan 2005-2008 (order printed copy)
- Environmental management policy
- EPBC Act Section 516A reporting
- Indigenous interests and connections within the South-west Marine Region of Australia - May 2007
- Reconciliation Action Plan: Department of Environment and Water Resources - May 2007
- Regulatory plan
- Service charter
- Submission to the National Innovation System (NIS) review - May 2008
- Sustainability Report 2005-2006 - 2007
Ecologically sustainable development
Brochures and fact sheets
- Agenda 21 - Sustainable Development - January 2004
- Local Agenda 21 - Sustaining Communities - June 2002
- Sustainable Development in Australia (booklet) - 2002 (order printed copy)
Books and reports
- Are We Sustaining Australia?: A report against Headline Sustainability Indicators for Australia - 2002
- Australian National Assessment Report
- Embedding Sustainability in MBA Programs: Education about and for Sustainability in Australian Business Schools - 2006 (order printed copy)
- ESD Design Guide for Office and Public Buildings: Edition 3 - May 2007 (order printed copy)
- National Strategy for Ecologically Sustainable Development - 1992
- Shifting Towards Sustainability: Six Insights into Successful Organisational Change for Sustainability - 2006 (order printed copy)
- Water Efficiency Guide: Office and Public Buildings - October 2006 (order printed copy)
More Sustainability Publications
Economics
Books and reports
- Making Economic Valuation Work for Biodiversity Conservation - May 2005 (order printed copy)
- A Revolving Fund for Biodiversity Conservation in Australia - 1998
- Techniques to Value Environmental Resources : an Introductory Handbook - 1995
- Investigating New Approaches - June 2002
- Archived publications - June 2002
Energy efficiency
Books and reports
Environmental education
Brochures and fact sheets
- Australian Sustainable Schools Initiative (factsheet) - 2007 (order printed copy)
- Desert Fauna - International Year of Deserts and Desertification fact sheet - 2006 (order printed copy)
- The Desert People of Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park - International Year of Deserts and Desertification fact sheet - 2006 (order printed copy)
- Deserts in Australia - International Year of Deserts and Desertification fact sheet - 2006 (order printed copy)
- Help Prevent Climate Change - 2006
- Logs have life inside - Kids brochure
- A National Review of Environmental Education and its Contribution to Sustainability in Australia - 2005
- Volume 1: Frameworks for Sustainability - Key Findings - 2005
- Volume 2: School Education - Key Findings - 2005
- Volume 3: Community Education - Key Findings- 2005 (order printed copy)
- Volume 4: Business and Industry Education - Key Findings - 2005 (order printed copy)
- Volume 5: Further and Higher Education - Key Findings - 2005
- Threatened Species Day Fact Sheets - 2008
- Threatened Species Day Fact Sheets - 2007 (order printed copy)
- Threatened Species Day Fact Sheets - 2006
- Threatened Species Day Fact Sheets - 2005 (order printed copy)
- Time to Act - 2006
Books and reports
- Caring for our Future - November 2006 (order printed copy)
- Coastal and Marine Studies in Australia - A Workshop Manual for Teachers, 1997
- Conserving Australia's Biological Diversity - Teacher's Notes and Display Materials
- Educating for a Sustainable Future: A National Environmental Education Statement for Australian Schools - 2005 (order printed copy)
- Embedding Sustainability in MBA Programs: Education about and for Sustainability in Australian Business Schools - 2006 (order printed copy)
- Environmental Education for a Sustainable Future: National Action Plan - 2000 (order printed copy)
- Environmental Protection in Australia - A Professional Development Manual for Teachers, 1997
- A National Review of Environmental Education and its Contribution to Sustainability in Australia - 2005
- Rainforest Animals - Atlas of Vertebrates Endemic to Australia's Wet Tropics (order printed copy)
- A Review of Air Quality Community Education - 2007 (order printed copy)
- Shifting Towards Sustainability: Six Insights into Successful Organisational Change for Sustainability - 2006 (order printed copy)
- Summary of the Environmental Education Review: Formal Education Sector (Schools) - 2003
- Teaching for a Sustainable World - International Edition, 1997
- Time to act: everyday tips to help protect the environment - Booklet, 2000
- Today Shapes Tomorrow: Environmental Education for a Sustainable Future - a Discussion Paper, 1999
- Whole-school Approaches to Sustainability: A Review of Models for Professional Development in Pre-service Teacher Education - 2006
Kits
- Easter Bilby teachers Kit and story books: Due to the exceptional demand for the Easter Bilby Storybook, the Easter Bilby's Secret Storybook and the Easter Bilby Teacher's Kit we regret we are now unable to fill your order if it was placed after Thursday 6 March 2008. There are no plans at this stage for reprints. We apologise for not being able to get back to everyone in person.
- Logs Have Life Inside Kit - 2002
Forests
Books and reports
- A Framework of Regional (Sub-National) Level Criteria and Indicators of Sustainable Forest Management in Australia - 1998 (ANZECC 62) (order printed copy)
- The Forest Conservation Fund Strategic Plan - 2006 (order printed copy)
Newsletters
Hazardous waste
Brochures and fact sheets
- Advice to manufacturers of fertilizers and stockfeed - 2003 (order printed copy)
- Electronic Scrap - A Hazardous Waste - 2004
- Exporting and Importing Hazardous Waste? - 2004 (order printed copy)
- Exports to Non-OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) Countries - August 2005
- Used Lead Acid Batteries - August 2005
- Zinc ash - July 2003
Books and reports
- Guidance papers
- Criteria for the export and import of used electronic equipment - 2005 (order printed copy)
- Hazard status of waste electrical and electronic assemblies or scrap: guidance paper - October 1999
- Hazard status of zinc and copper ash, dross and residues under the Hazardous Waste Act: guidance paper - April 2001
- Legislative amendments and Evidentiary certificates
- Annual reports
- Operation of the Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1989 - 2006-07
- Operation of the Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1989 - 2005-06
- Operation of the Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1989 - 2004-05
- Operation of the Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1989 - 2003-04
- Report of the National Competition Policy Review of the Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1989 and associated Regulations - Government response to the review - June 2001
- The Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1989 - a National Competition Policy Review - February 2001
- Archived publications
Heritage
About Australia's Heritage
- ANHAT biodiversity summaries for NRM regions
- Australia's World Heritage - 2008
- Australian convict sites: World Heritage nomination - 2008
- Australia's National Heritage (Booklet, 2007) (order printed copy)
- List of overseas places of historic significance to Australia
- Great Southern Land: The maritime exploration of Terra Australis - 2005
- Australia's Heritage Lists – Which List is which?
- Heritage and the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
- Heritage Laws and Australian Government Agencies
- Heritage List Criteria and Thresholds
- Heritage management principles
- Historic Heritage – Frequently Asked Questions
- Indigenous Heritage – Frequently Asked Questions
- Managing Australia's heritage places
- Natural Heritage – Frequently Asked Questions
- Protecting heritage places
- The EPBC Act and the National Heritage List
- The EPBC Act and the Commonwealth Heritage List
- The Register of the National Estate
Heritage Strategy
- State party report on the state of conservation of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (Australia) - February 2008
- The economics of heritage (Workshop, October 2007)
- Commonwealth Government response to the productivity commission inquiry into the conservation of Australia’s Historic Heritage Places (Report, August 2007)
- Heritage Strategy (Report, December 2005)
- Steps to Sustainable Tourism (Report, 2004)
- World Heritage Australian Fossil Mammal Sites — Riversleigh and Naracoorte
- World Heritage Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves of Australia Strategic Overview for Management
Protecting and managing heritage places
- Eradication of Rabbits and Rodents on Subantarctic Macquarie Island - 2007
- The Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area - 2007
- Protecting heritage places (Fact sheet, 2007)
- Management plans for places on the Commonwealth Heritage List - October 2005
- Adaptive Reuse: Preserving our past, building our future (Booklet, 2004) (order printed copy)
Newsletters
- Living Heritage Vol. 1 No. 2 Winter 2008 (order printed copy)
- Living Heritage - Vol. 1 No. 1 Winter 2007 (order printed copy)
Posters
- Australian shipwrecks poster (order printed copy)
- Australian Dinosaur Story Poster - 2006 (limit of 1) (order printed copy)
- Australia's World Heritage (order printed copy)
Publications of the Australian Heritage Council
Publications of the former Australian Heritage Commission
Annual reports
- Annual Report 2002-03
- Annual Report 2001-02
- Annual Report 2000-01 (order printed copy)
- Annual Report 1999-2000
Books and reports
- Ask First: a guide to respecting Indigenous heritage places and values - 2002
- Australia: our national stories. Linking a Nation: Australia's Transport and Communications 1788 - 1970
- Australian Historic Themes: a framework for use in heritage assessment and management - 2001
- Australian Natural Heritage Charter: for the Conservation of Places of Natural Heritage Significance - 2002
- The Economic Value of Tourism to Places of Cultural Heritage Significance: a case study of three towns with mining heritage
- Heritage Advisory Services: Towards Best Practice, McDougall and Vines - 1997
- Heritage Economics: Challenges for heritage conservation and sustainable development in the 21st Century - July 2000
- Improving Access to Heritage Buildings - 1999
- Investigating Heritage: our past present and future
$21.75 (inc GST), plus postage and handling $8.00 for orders under $100. Available for purchase from the Curriculum Corporation. Telephone (03) 9207 9600 or Email: sales@curriculum.edu.au - Migrant Heritage Places in Australia: A Guide - How to find your heritage places - 2000
- Migrant Heritage Places in Australia: A Handbook for group coordinators - 2000
- Mining Heritage Places Assessment Manual - 2000
- Nourishing Terrains: Australian Aboriginal Views of Landscape and Wilderness Deborah Bird Rose - 1996
- Our House - Histories of Australian Homes - 2001
- Places in the Heart: Australians writing about their favourite heritage places - 1998
- Protecting Heritage Places - 10 steps to help protect the natural and cultural significance of places - 2000
- Protecting Local Heritage Places - a guide for communities - 2000
- Protecting Natural Heritage - using the Australian Natural Heritage Charter - 2003
- Successful Tourism at Heritage Places: a guide for tourism operators, heritage managers and communities - 2001
- Tracking the Dragon: a guide for finding and assessing Chinese Australian heritage places - 2002
- Urban Heritage: the rise and postwar development of Australia's capital city centres - 2000
- Women's Employment and Professionalism in Australia: Histories, Themes and Places - 2002
- World Heritage Icon Value: Contribution of World Heritage Branding to Nature Tourism - 2002
Brochures
Australia's Natural Lands and Rivers
Maps
- Identified Natural Rivers
- River Disturbance Index
- Wilderness Quality
- Biophysical Naturalness
- Remote and Natural Lands Delineation
Books and reports
- National Wilderness Inventory Handbook of Procedures, Content and Usage
- Identification of Wild Rivers: Methodology and database development
- Conservation Guidelines for the Management of Wild River Values
- The Role of Wilderness in Nature Conservation
Brochures
See also: Protected Areas
Indigenous communities
Brochures and fact sheets
- Laynhapuy: Arnhem Land, Northern Territory - September 2006 (order printed copy)
- Anindilyakwa: Arnhem Land, Northern Territory - September 2006 (order printed copy)
- Indigenous Protected Areas: Indigenous Australians Caring for Country - September 2006 (order printed copy)
- Guidelines for Indigenous Participation in Natural Resource Management (order printed copy)
- Indigenous Owned and Managed Lands in Natural Heritage Regions (CD containing fact sheets, contact lists and maps for each Natural Heritage Trust Region) - 2004
Books and reports
- Department of Environment and Water Resources Reconciliation Action Plan - May 2007
- Growing up Strong: The First 10 Years of Indigenous Protected Areas in Australia - May 2007 (order printed copy)
- Indigenous Knowledge Forum, Alice Springs 28-29 May 2003: Workshop Outcomes (order printed copy)
- Indigenous interests and connections within the South-west Marine Region of Australia - May 2007
- Indigenous Protected Areas: Conservation Partnerships with Indigenous Landholders - 1996 (order printed copy)
- National Resource Management Cross-Cultural Awareness Training Framework - 2005 (order printed copy)
- Reconciliation Action Plan: Department of Environment and Water Resources - May 2007
- Sea Countries of the South: Indigenous Interest and Connections within the South-west Marine Region of Australia - June 2007
- Working with Indigenous Knowledge in Natural Resource Management: Guidelines for Regional Bodies - 2004
- Working with Indigenous Knowledge in Natural Resource Management: Recommendations for Commonwealth Agencies - 2004
- Working with Indigenous Knowledge in Natural Resource Management: Sea Forum Case Study - 2004 (order printed copy)
- Working with Indigenous Knowledge in Natural Resource Management: Ways to Improve Community Engagement - 2004
Newsletters
- Indigenous Protected Areas Newsletter - Issue One June 2004 (order printed copy)
- Indigenous Protected Areas Newsletter - Issue Two 2005 (order printed copy)
- Indigenous Protected Areas Newsletter - Issue Three 2006 (order printed copy)
Natural Resource Management Home Page
See also: Caring for our Country
Industry
Brochures and fact sheets
- Australia's New Water Efficiency Labelling Scheme (WELS brochure) - 2006 (order printed copy)
- An Architects and Specifiers Guide (WELS Fact sheet) - 2008
- A Builders Guide (WELS Fact Sheet) - 2008
- Contacts List for Registering WELS Products (WELS Fact Sheet) - 2008
- How to Label a WELS Product (WELS Fact Sheet) - 2008
- How to Register WELS Products (WELS Fact Sheet) - 2008
- A Plumbers Guide (WELS Fact Sheet) - 2008
- Retailer 'ten tips' Checklist (WELS Fact Sheet) - 2008
- A Wholesalers Guide (WELS Fact Sheet) - 2008
- A National Review of Environmental Education and its Contribution to Sustainability in Australia - Volume 4: Business and Industry Education - Key Findings - 2005 (order printed copy)
- Your Guide to Socially Responsible Investment (Z-card) (order printed copy)
Books and reports
Corporate reporting
- The State of Sustainability Reporting in Australia 2005 - March 2006
- The State of Sustainability Reporting in Australia 2004 - June 2004
- Triple Bottom Line Reporting in Australia: A Guide to Reporting Against Environmental Indicators - June 2003 (order printed copy)
- The State of Public Environmental Reporting in Corporate Australia - March 2003
- Study into Sustainability Reporting in the Trade & Retail Sector - November 2002
- Triple Bottom Line Measurement and Reporting in Australia: Making it Tangible - 2002
- Environmental Reporting: Handbook for Small and Medium Size Businesses - June 2001
Corporate sustainability
- Product Innovation - The Green Advantage: An Introduction to Design for Environment for Australian Business - April 2001
- Profiting from Environmental Improvement in Business - an Eco-efficiency Information Kit for Australian Industry - January 2002 (order printed copy)
Financial services sector
- Corporate Sustainability - an Investor Perspective: The Mays Report - 2003
- The Materiality of Environmental Risk to Australia's Finance Sector - May 2003
- Risk, The Environment and the Role of the Insurance Industry - January 2003
- A Capital Idea: Realising Value from Environmental and Social Performance
- Socially Responsible Investment: Your Questions Answered - July 2001
- The Role of Australia's Financial Sector in Sustainability - October 2000
See also Sustainability publications
Intergovernmental
- Heads of Agreement on Commonwealth/State Roles and Responsibilities for the Environment
- Intergovernmental Agreement on the Environment - 1992
Invasive species
Brochures and fact sheets
- Australian Pest Animal Strategy: A National Strategy for the Management of Vertebrate Pest Animals in Australia - August 2007 (order printed copy)
- Beak and feather disease (psittacine circoviral disease)- 2004 (order printed copy)
- The Cane Toad (Bufo marinus) - 2004 (order printed copy)
- Chytridiomycosis (amphibian chytrid fungus disease) - 2004 (order printed copy)
- European Red Fox - 2004 (order printed copy)
- European Wild Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)- 2004 (order printed copy)
- The Feral Camel (Camelus dromedarius)- 2004 (order printed copy)
- The Feral Cat (Felis catus) - 2004
- The Feral Goat (Capra hircus) - 2004 (order printed copy)
- The Feral Horse (Equus caballus) and Feral Donkey (Equus asinus) - 2004 (order printed copy)
- The Feral Pig (Sus scrofa) - 2004 (order printed copy)
- The Feral Water Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) - 2004 (order printed copy)
- Invasive Species in Australia - 2004 (order printed copy)
- Phytophthora Root Rot - 2004 (order printed copy)
- Weeds of National Significance Weed Management Guides - 2003
- Alligator weed (Alternanthera philoxeroides) (order printed copy)
- Athel pine or tamarisk (Tamarix aphylla) (order printed copy)
- Bitou bush (Chrysanthemoides monilifera ssp. rotundata) (order printed copy)
- Boneseed (Chrysanthemoides monilifera ssp. monilifera) (order printed copy)
- Blackberry (Rubus fruticosus aggregate) (order printed copy)
- Bridal creeper (Asparagus asparagoides) (order printed copy)
- Cabomba (Cabomba caroliniana) (order printed copy)
- Chilean needle grass (Nassella neesiana) (order printed copy)
- Gorse (Ulex europaeus) (order printed copy)
- Hymenachne or Olive hymenachne (Hymenachne amplexicaulis) (order printed copy)
- Lantana (Lantana camara) (order printed copy)
- Mesquite (Prosopis species)
- Mimosa (Mimosa pigra) (order printed copy)
- Parkinsonia (order printed copy)
- Parthenium weed (Parthenium hysterophorus) (order printed copy)
- Pond apple (Annona glabra) (order printed copy)
- Prickly acacia (Acacia nilotica) (order printed copy)
- Rubber vine (Cryptostegia grandiflora) (order printed copy)
- Salvinia (Salvinia molesta) (order printed copy)
- Serrated tussock (Nassella trichotoma)
- Willow (Salix spp.) (order printed copy)
- Weeds and Ferals on the Loose! (order printed copy)
- Weeds on the National Environmental Alert List: Weed Management Guides - 2003
- Barleria or porcupine flower (Barleria prionitis) (order printed copy)
- Blue hound's tongue (Cynoglossum creticum)(order printed copy)
- Chinese violet (Asystasia gangetica ssp. micrantha) (order printed copy)
- Cane needle grass (Nassella hyalina) (order printed copy)
- Chinese rain tree (Koelreuteria elegans ssp.formosana) (order printed copy)
- Cutch tree (Acacia catechu) (order printed copy)
- Cyperus (Cyperus teneristolon) (order printed copy)
- False yellowhead (Dittrichia viscosa) (order printed copy)
- Garden geranium (Pelargonium alchemilloides) (order printed copy)
- Heather (Calluna vulgaris) (order printed copy)
- Holly leaved senecio (Senecio glastifolius) (order printed copy)
- Horsetails (Equisetum species) (order printed copy)
- Karroo thorn (Acacia karroo)
- Kochia (Bassia scoparia) (order printed copy)
- Lagarosiphon (Lagarosiphon major) (order printed copy)
- Laurel clock vine (Thunbergia laurifolia) (order printed copy)
- Leaf cactus (Pereskia aculeata) (order printed copy)
- Lobed needle grass (Nassella charruana)
- Orange hawkweed (Hieracium aurantiacum) (order printed copy)
- Praxelis (Praxelis clematidea) (order printed copy)
- Rosewood or tipuana tree (Tipuana tipu) (order printed copy)
- Senegal tea plant (Gymnocoronis spilanthoides) (order printed copy)
- Siam weed or chromolaena (Chromolaena odorata)
- Subterranean Cape sedge (Trianoptiles solitaria) (order printed copy)
- Uruguayan rice grass (Piptochaetium montevidense) (order printed copy)
- White spanish broom (Cytisus multiflorus) (order printed copy)
- White weeping broom (Retama raetam) (order printed copy)
- Yellow Soldier (Lachenalia reflexa) (order printed copy)
Books and reports
- Australian Pest Animal Strategy: A National Strategy for the Management of Vertebrate Pest Animals in Australia - August 2007 (order printed copy)
- Cost effective feral animal exclusion fencing for areas of high conservation value in Australia - 2004
- The Determination of Weeds of National Significance
- Developing a Cane Toad Biological Control - 2004
- Hygiene Protocols for the Prevention and Control of Diseases (Particularly Beak and Feather Disease) in Australian Birds - 2006
- Introductory Weed Management Manual (training manual for groups involved in weed management - limit of 1 per order) (order printed copy)
- Management of Phytophthora cinnamomi for Biodiversity Conservation in Australia - June 2006
- The State of Australia's Birds 2006: Invasive Species
- Threat Abatement Plans - Drafts
- Threat Abatement Plans - Approved
- Threat Abatement Plan for Competition and Land Degradation by Feral Goats
- Threat Abatement Plan for Competition and Land Degradation by Feral Rabbits
- Threat Abatement Plan for the Incidental Catch (or By-Catch) of Seabirds during Oceanic Longline Fishing Operations - 1999
- Threat Abatement Plan for Infection of Amphibians with Chytrid Fungus Resulting in Chytridiomycosis - 2006 (order printed copy)
- Threat Abatement Plan for Predation by Feral Cats
- Threat Abatement Plan for Predation by the European Red Fox
- Threat Abatement Plan for Predation, Habitat Degradation, Competition and Disease Transmission by Feral Pigs - 2005 (order printed copy)
- Threat Abatement Plan for Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease affecting Endangered Psittacine Species - 2005 (order printed copy)
- Threat Abatement Plan for Reduction in Impacts of Tramp Ants on Biodiversity in Australia and its Territories - 2006 (order printed copy)
- Threat Abatement Plan for Reduction in Impacts of Tramp Ants on Biodiversity in Australia and its Territories: Background Document - 2006 (order printed copy)
- Weeds
- Community Involvement in Off-Reserve and On-Reserve Management of Environmental Weeds - 1997 (order printed copy)
- Impact of Environmental Weeds on Biodiversity: A Review and Development of Methodology - 1998 (order printed copy)
- National Weeds Strategy - a Strategic Approach to Weed Problems of National Significance - Revised Edition March 1999
- Potential Environmental Weeds in Australia;Candidate Species for Preventative Control - 1998 (order printed copy)
Kits
- Easter Bilby teachers Kit and story books: Due to the exceptional demand for the Easter Bilby Storybook, the Easter Bilby's Secret Storybook and the Easter Bilby Teacher's Kit we regret we are now unable to fill your order if it was placed after Thursday 6 March 2008. There are no plans at this stage for reprints. We apologise for not being able to get back to everyone in person.
Posters. stickers and temporary tattoos (limit of 6 posters, available within Australia only)
- Beak and Feather Disease poster - 2005 (order printed copy)
- Bilby's Band Face the Ferals (temporary tattoos sheet and information card) - 2008 (order printed copy)
- Chytrid Fungus Disease poster - 2005 (order printed copy)
- That Feral Cat poster - 2004 (order printed copy)
- The Feral Map - 2004 (order printed copy)
- A Great Battle poster - May 2007 (order printed copy)
- Root Rot Fungus poster - 2005 (order printed copy)
See also: Marine Species, Threatened Species
Land management - rangeland management, soils
Brochures and fact sheets
- Box Gum Grassy Woodland Project Prospectus - 2008 (order printed copy)
- Covenants for Conservation Brochure - 2004 (order printed copy)
- New Tax Incentives for Conservation - 2007
Books and Reports
- Gifts That Keep on Giving - A Landholders Guide to Land Protection and Conservation Options - 2005 (order printed copy)
- An Introduction to Acid Sulfate Soils - 2000
- Managing for Biodiversity in the Rangelands Summary Reports
- Assessing Financial and Environmental Impacts of Management Options - June 2006 (order printed copy)
- Biodiversity Monitoring in the Rangelands: A Way Forward (Vol. 2) - 2007 (order printed copy)
- Fire Management - 2005 (order printed copy)
- Industry Guidelines for Sustainability - June 2006
- Managing Feral Animals and their Impacts: Managing for Biodiversity in the Rangelands - 2007 (order printed copy)
- Management of Total Grazing Pressure - 2005 (order printed copy)
- Water Management: Managing for Biodiversity in the Rangelands - 2007 (order printed copy)
- Weed Management - June 2006 (order printed copy)
- National Principles and Guidelines for Rangeland Management - 1999 (ANZECC 67) (order printed copy)
Natural Resource Management Home Page
Lead
Brochures and fact sheets
- National Phase Out of Leaded Petrol - Some Questions and Answers (order printed copy)
- Lead Alert Facts
- Lead (Pb) - 2005
- Lead in Autopaints - 2000 (order printed copy)
- Lead in Ceramics - 2000 (order printed copy)
- Lead in House Paint - 2000
- Lead in Marine Paints - 2000 (order printed copy)
- Lead in Pottery - 2000 (order printed copy)
- Lead in Stained Glass - 2000 (order printed copy)
- Lead and the Environment - 2000
- Lead and Your Health - 2000
- Lead in Recreational Activities - 2000 (order printed copy)
Books and Reports
- The Six Step Guide to Painting Your Home - Lead Alert Booklet (limit of 1 copy) (order printed copy)
Legislation
Legislation administered by the Department of the Environment and Heritage
Compliance and enforcement
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
- Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
- Commonwealth/State Bilateral Agreements
- EPBC Protected Matters Search Tool
- Notifications about referrals, assessments, and approvals are available on the EPBC Act web site.
- Brochures and fact sheets
- Advisory Committees to help protect the environment
- Australian Lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri) - 2003
- Black Gum-South Esk Pine Forest (Tasmania) - 2004 (order printed copy)
- Changes to the EPBC Act: What You Need to Know - October 2006 (order printed copy)
- Compliance Auditing - February 2007
- Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (fact sheet) - April 2008 (order printed copy)
- EPBC Act - Environmental Assessment Process - February 2007 (order printed copy)
- List of overseas places of historic significance to Australia - March 2007
- Protecting Heritage Places - March 2007
- Flowchart: Environment Assessment Process - February 2007
- Guide to the EPBC Act - October 2007 (order printed copy)
- Harmful Marine Debris - August 2003
- Indigenous Advisory Committee
- Local Government and Commonwealth Environment Law - 2003
- Listing threatened species, ecological communities and key threatening processes - March 2007
- Mabi Forest - 2004 (order printed copy)
- Murray Cod - 2003
- National Grasstree Harvesting Guidelines - June 2007 (order printed copy)
- National Tree Fern Harvesting Guidelines - June 2007 (order printed copy)
- A New Approach to Listing Ecological Communities - May 2006
- Particular Manner Decisions - Section 77A - September 2003
- Staged Developments/Split Referrals - September 2003
- Strategic Assessment under the EPBC Act - 2008 (order printed copy)
- Round Island Petrel (Pterodroma arminjoniana) North Keeling Island - 2003 (order printed copy)
- Swamps of the Fleurieu Peninsula - February 2003 (fact sheet)(order printed copy)
- Upland Wetlands of the New England Tablelands and the Monaro Plateau - November 2005 (order printed copy)
- What the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) means for Norfolk Island - June 2004 (order printed copy)
- EPBC Act Policy Statements
- Actions on, or impacting upon, Commonwealth land and Actions by Commonwealth Agencies: Significant Impact Guidelines, EPBC Act Policy Statement 1.2 - May 2006 (order printed copy)
- Bluegrass Ecological Community: Administrative Guidelines on Significance, EPBC Policy Statement 3.1 - August 2001
- Grey-headed Flying-Fox: Administrative Guidelines on Significance, EPBC Policy Statement 3.2 - November 2003 (order printed copy)
- Interaction between Offshore Seismic Exploration and Whales: EPBC Act Policy Statement 2.1 - March 2007
- Matters of National Environmental Significance: Significant Impact Guidelines, EPBC Act Policy Statement 1.1 - May 2006 (order printed copy)
- Natural Temperate Grassland of the Victorian Volcanic Plain, EPBC Policy Statement 3.8 - 2008 (order printed copy)
- Offshore Aquaculture: Industry Guidelines, EPBC Act Policy Statement 2.2 - 2006 (order printed copy)
- Peppermint Box (Eucalyptus odorata) Grassy Woodland of South Australia and Iron-grass Natural Temperate Grassland of South Australia, EPBC Policy Statement 3.7- June 2007 (order printed copy)
- Spectacled Flying-fox: Administrative Guidelines on Significance, EPBC Policy Statement 3.3 - 2003-2004 (order printed copy)
- Tasmanian Devil (Sarcophilus harrisii), EPBC Policy Statement 3.6 - July 2006 (order printed copy)
- Tiger Quoll (southeastern mainland population) and the use of 1080, EPBC Policy Statement 3.4 - May 2004
- White Box - Yellow Box - Blakely's Red Gum Grassy Woodlands and Derived Native Grasslands: EPBC Policy Statement 3.5 (order printed copy)
- Books and reports
Marine
See also: Coasts, Marine, Marine Protected Areas, Marine Species and Oceans
Coasts
- Books and reports
- Commonwealth Coastal Policy - 1995
- A Conservation Assessment of the Australian Coastal Zone - 1992
- Great Barrier Reef Water Quality Protection Plan Annual Report 2004-2005
- National Cooperative Approach to Integrated Coastal Zone Management: Framework and Implementation Plan - 2006 (order printed copy)
- Reef Water Quality Protection Plan: For catchments adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area - October 2003
- Review of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975: Review Panel Report - 2006 (order printed copy)
- Report Series - Commonwealth Coastal Action Program
- No. 3 - Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples - 1996
- No. 7 - Coastal & Marine Resource Guide - a Component of the Coastal & Marine School Project - 1997
- No. 8 - Reducing the Impacts of Shipping Operations on the Marine Environment: An Information Register - 1996
- No. 10 - Field Activities for Coastal & Marine Environments - 1997
- No. 11 - Coastal Tourism - A Manual for Sustainable Development - 1997
- No. 12 - We Fish for the Future - Recreational Fishing and People of Indo-Chinese Background - 1997
Marine
- Brochures and fact sheets
- Artificial Reefs
- Dumping Wastes at Sea
- Keep the Sea Plastic Free - Bin It - 2004 (order printed copy)
- The Way Ahead for Australia's Eastern Oceans: Marine Bioregional Planning in Commonwealth Waters - 2007 (order printed copy)
- The Way Ahead for Australia's Northern Oceans: Marine Bioregional Planning in Commonwealth Waters - 2007
- The Way Ahead for Australia's North-west Oceans: Marine Bioregional Planning in Commonwealth Waters - April 2007 (order printed copy)
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