The Darling
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Description | Contents | Readership | Reviews | Related Titles
Description
This comprehensive work on the Darling River examines the attitudes and issues of the region, from a social and land use perspective. It contains scientific and technical information that is necessary for the management of the river and its catchments. Chapters on natural systems illustrate the changes in species and habitat and identify what is necessary for their survival. Other chapters on sustainable land use examine environmental flows, responses to land use and the conservation of terrestrial environments.
The final chapter looks at the future of the Darling River and its catchments t. It considers the need to limit the exploitation of natural resources by limiting river diversions and controlling vegetative clearing. It also looks at new development opportunities that will occur through innovation, new enterprises and higher value uses of resources and attention to alternative land uses.
The information in this book will underpin policy development and many on-ground management actions to be conducted within the Murray-Darling Basin.
Contents
Foreword by Ian Sinclair
1. A Requited Darling
2. The Aboriginal People of the Darling River
3. The European Explorers and Settlers
4. Living West of the Darling
5. The Geomorphology of the Barwon-Darling Basin
6. Soils of the Darling Catchment: Their Condition and Their Management
7. The Vegetation of the Darling Basin
8. Mammals of the Darling River Basin
9. Reptiles and Amphibians of the Darling Basin
10. Waterbirds and Wetlands of the Darling River: 'A Wide River With Pelicans and Other Wildfowl' (Sturt 1829)
11. Fish in the Darling River System
12. The Darling River Corridors
13. Water Quality
14. A Hydrological Perspective on the Darling Basin
15. Environmental Flows in the Darling River
16. Conservation of Terrestrial Environments in the Darling River Basin
17. The Darling Basin: Coping with the Pressures of Change
18. The Way Ahead
Reviews
"This book you can even judge by its cover, for it is what it says it is – The Darling. I reckon that if you are a serious student of this magnificent inland river, this book will be your darling."
Greg Hunt, Waterkeepers Australia (Geographical Education, vol. 18, 2005)
". . . a readable and well illustrated book suitable for managers, scientists, or anyone with an interest in this river's past, present and future."
Anneke Veenstra-Quah (The Victorian Naturalist vol. 122(4), 2005
“This large, important book is designed and illustrated sumptuously for a wide readership.”
The Australian 2 May 2005
Readership
Community catchment and river groups, students, natural resource planners and policy makers, and anyone with an interest in the Darling Catchment covering southern Queensland and NSW west of the Divide.
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