Land
Theme commentary
Tony Gleeson, Synapse Research & Consulting
Alex Dalley, Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry, Dili, East Timor
prepared for the 2006 Australian State of the Environment Committee, 2006
This document was commissioned for the 2006 Australian State of the Environment Committee. This and other commissioned documents support the Committee's Report but are not part of it.
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Contents
- Overview
- Introduction
- Vegetation
- Soil
- Salinity and acidity
- Introduced species
- Pollution to and from land
- Pressures on the land resource
- Responses to pressures on the land resource
- Institutional paralysis
- Institutional challenges
- Challenges—monitoring condition, pressures and responses
- Conclusions
- References
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Peer reviewers
Craig Pearson, Dean & Professor of Agricultural Policy, OAC, University of Guelph
John Taylor, Director Rangelands, Australia
Citation
Gleeson, T and Dalley, A 2006, ‘Land’, theme commentary prepared for the 2006 Australia State of the Environment Committee, Department of Environment and Heritage, Canberra, <http://www.deh.gov.au/ soe/2006/commentaries/land/index.html>
Land related SoE 2006 information
Main report
Theme commentaries
Integrative commentaries
- An integrated approach to environment and heritage issues
- Changing the delivery of environmental stewardship in Australia
- Critical issues in regional natural resource management
- Indigenous involvement in environmental and heritage management
- Living in a land of fire
- Living in a variable climate
- The suburbanisation of coastal Australia
Current or emerging issues
- Birds of woodlands and grasslands
- Chemicals in the environment
- Genetically modified organisms
- Incentives for natural and cultural heritage conservation
- Monitoring in the rangelands
- Progress in restoring our environment
- Review of the EPBC Act
- The dilemma of conflicting environmental outcomes
- The Great Green Debate: urban myths, risks and alternative opinions
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