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The Rangeland Journal publishes original work on the biophysical, social, cultural, economic, and policy influences affecting rangeland use and management. More

Editor-in-Chief: John Milne

 
 
 

The Rangeland Journal
Volume 33 Number 4 2011
Livelihoods in Desert Australia

 
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Livelihoods in desert Australia 
Murray McGregor and Craig James
pp. i-v
 
 


 
Co-benefits of large-scale renewables in remote Australia: energy futures and climate change 
Barrie Pittock
pp. 315-325

Climate change impacts and peak oil could adversely impact desert/remote Australia, but it has abundant renewable energy resources that could be harnessed to provide not only near-zero greenhouse gas emissions energy but jobs and income. This could power Australia while helping to solve social problems in remote communities. This needs investment in large-scale renewable technologies, an extended electrical grid, and/or local energy applications such as energy-intensive industries including generating transport fuels (battery powered vehicles, electrified railways, hydrogen for fuel cells or ammonia used like LPG). Rising prices for diesel could be a major incentive, while local involvement and start-up incentives will be needed.

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Supporting cross-cultural brokers is essential for employment among Aboriginal people in remote Australia 
Yiheyis T. Maru and Jocelyn Davies
pp. 327-338

Employment rates are low among Aboriginal people living in remote regions of Australia, even in remote places where there are employment opportunities. Brokers who can bridge and link Aboriginal individuals and their dense social networks to potential employers are essential for Aboriginal people to be able to obtain trusted information on jobs and have entrée to employment opportunities. To improve employment outcomes and expand livelihood options for Aboriginal people in remote Australia, it is essential to recognise, support and recruit brokers.

 
  
 


 
A framework for sustainable rangeland livelihoods 
Michael LaFlamme
pp. 339-351

Australian rangelands are human-environment systems at risk from the interactions among many unpredictable ecological and social changes. To understand how to more effectively sustain rangelands, I compared scientific, pastoral, Aboriginal and government publications and found that all groups identified six important assets: landscape, biodiversity, flexibility, skill, information and networks. If rangeland groups work together to build livelihoods that strengthen those assets, we can develop more secure lives and sustain the environment upon which we depend.

 
  
 


 
Attracting and retaining skilled and professional staff in remote locations of Australia 
Fiona Haslam McKenzie
pp. 353-363

A large proportion of Australia’s wealth is derived from the country’s remote regions but despite industry growth in these places over the last decade, many organisations find it difficult to attract, let alone retain, staff. Turnover of staff leads to a loss of knowledge of conditions, people, opportunities and cultural differences in remote locations causing significant economic, social and environmental costs and frustrations for all spheres of government and business. This paper examines a variety of strategies developed to more effectively attract and retain staff to remote locations.

 
  
 


 
Application of an integrated multidisciplinary economic welfare approach to improved wellbeing through Aboriginal caring for country 
David Campbell
pp. 365-372

Closing the gap in the health of Aboriginal Australians, the prevention and mitigation of greenhouse gases, and maintaining biodiversity are important national policy issues. All these policy issues will benefit through traditional land management practices being carried out by Aboriginal Australians – with substantial national and private economic benefits. Such benefits, it is shown, are more likely to be achieved when people are resident in small family groups rather than large settlements.

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Why tourism may not be everybody's business: the challenge of tradition in resource peripheries 
Doris A. Carson and Dean B. Carson
pp. 373-383

Rural and remote regions often struggle to diversify their resource dependent economies due to issues of institutional lock-in. This paper examines the case of tourism development in remote South Australia and explains how the institutional legacies inherited from resource dependence can stifle local innovation capacity in tourism. The paper concludes that in-migrants and external human capital are critical in the process of developing an innovative regional tourism industry in a traditional resource periphery.

 
  
 


 
Representatives in orbit: livelihood options for Aboriginal people in the administration of the Australian desert 
Elizabeth Ganter
pp. 385-393

Aboriginal people comprise ~30% of the Northern Territory population, but make up well under 10% of the government bureaucracy designed to serve that population. This paper is based on PhD research into Aboriginal experiences of participating in this bureaucracy conducted by interviews. The paper concludes by observing that the knowledge and experience of Aboriginal people who orbit at the edges of government may be made more accessible through collaborations with the Indigenous sector than solely through government employment.

 
  
 


 
No bush foods without people: the essential human dimension to the sustainability of trade in native plant products from desert Australia 
Fiona Walsh and Josie Douglas
pp. 395-416

Job opportunities and livelihoods for desert Aboriginal people are a national concern. Many Aboriginal women work to harvest and sell bush food species; providing supplementary income and cultural benefits. Produce is sold to traders who on-sell to food and mining rehabilitation industries. But how sustainable is this trade? We found social and economic factors rather than ecological factors to have more influence on sustainability. As the Australian native food industry grows, investment should support Aboriginal families to harvest from their lands.

 
  
 


 
Attention to four key principles can promote health outcomes from desert Aboriginal land management 
Jocelyn Davies, David Campbell, Matthew Campbell, Josie Douglas, Hannah Hueneke, Michael LaFlamme, Diane Pearson, Karissa Preuss, Jane Walker and Fiona Walsh
pp. 417-431

Engagement by Aboriginal people in land management can improve Aboriginal health which is a critical national issue. Yet there is little guidance available about how these health outcomes might best be achieved. From our research we developed principles that will help ensure desert Aboriginal land management impacts positively on psycho-social determinants of health. The principles are a guide for good practice and a foundation for building integrated social and environmental outcomes.

 
  
 



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Published online 30 January 2012
Social implications of bridging the gap through ‘caring for country 
Julian Gorman and Sivaram Vemuri

This paper considers the role Indigenous Australians play in managing natural and cultural resources in the Northern Territory of Australia. It considers the implications of recent policy changes and how they might impact upon Indigenous livelihoods and subsequently the cultural and biophysical health of landscapes and its connected social implications. It concludes by advocating a more community-based approach to land management which will allow for greater community involvement in planning, decision making and governance.

 
  


   
These articles have been peer reviewed and accepted for publication. They are still in production and have not been edited, so may differ from the final published form.

    RJ11090  Accepted 20 January 2012
    Livestock mobility in arid and semi-arid Australia: escaping variability in space
    Ryan McAllister
    Abstract


    RJ11045  Accepted 09 January 2012
    SIR SIDNEY KIDMAN: AUSTRALIA’S CATTLE KING AS PIONEER OF ADAPTATION TO CLIMATIC UNCERTAINTY
    Leo Dobes
    Abstract


    RJ11055  Accepted 09 January 2012
    Assessment of changes in the state of the rangelands of Inner Mongolia, China between 1998 and 2007 using remotely sensed data
    Zhongmin Hu, Shenggong Li, Jingwei Dong, Jiangwen Fan
    Abstract


    RJ11044  Accepted 09 January 2012
    Can virtual fences be used to control grazing sheep?
    Magali Jouven, H Leroy, A Ickowicz, P Lapeyronie
    Abstract


    RJ11053  Accepted 26 September 2011
    Acacia tortilis (Forssk) subsp. raddiana (Savi) Brenan as a foundation species: A test from the arid zone of Tunisia
    Zouhaier Noumi, Lotfi Abdallah, Blaise Touzard, Mohamed Chaieb
    Abstract


    RJ11056  Accepted 22 September 2011
    A sustainable future for the Australian rangelands
    Jan Ferguson
    Abstract


    RJ11059  Accepted 22 September 2011
    Australia' rangelands: A future vision.
    Guy Fitzhardinge
    Abstract


    RJ11034  Accepted 28 September 2011
    Genetic differentiation of the dominant perennial grass Cenchrus ciliaris L. contributes to response to water deficit in arid lands
    Amina Kharrat-Souissi, Alex Baumel, Franck Torre, Mohamed Chaieb
    Abstract


    RJ11052  Accepted 30 September 2011
    Effect of snow disasters on livestock farming in some rangeland regions of China and mitigation strategies – a review
    Zhanhuan Shang, Malcolm Gibb, Ruijun Long
    Abstract




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2. Published 23 March 2011
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3. Published 14 September 2010
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4. Published 15 June 2002
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C. A. McAlpine, R. J. Fensham and D. E. Temple-Smith

5. Published 26 March 2009
Kangaroos in the rangelands: opportunities for landholder collaboration

A. Baumber, R. Cooney, P. Ampt and K. Gepp

6. Published 23 March 2010
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G. P. Edwards, B. Zeng, W. K. Saalfeld and P. Vaarzon-Morel

7. Published 15 June 2002
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B. A. Wilson, V. J. Neldner and A. Accad

8. Published 1 April 2008
Applying the sustainable livelihoods approach in Australian desert Aboriginal development

Jocelyn Davies, Janelle White, Alyson Wright, Yiheyis Maru and Michael LaFlamme

9. Published 1 April 2008
Fire and its management in central Australia

G. P. Edwards, G. E. Allan, C. Brock, A. Duguid, K. Gabrys and P. Vaarzon-Morel

10. Published 22 November 2005
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I. H. Chivers and D. E. Aldous

11. Published 26 November 2010
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Georgia Miller, Margaret Friedel, Paul Adam and Vanessa Chewings

12. Published 29 May 2006
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A. C. Grice

13. Published 9 September 2011
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Roderick J. Fensham, Owen Powell and James Horne

14. Published 23 March 2010
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15. Published 23 March 2011
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16. Published 29 May 2006
Weeds of Australian rangelands

Tara G. Martin, Shane Campbell and Simone Grounds

17. Published 28 August 2009
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18. Published 1 January 2000
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DB Croft

19. Published 1 April 2008
The 'viability' and resilience of communities and settlements in desert Australia

Mark Stafford Smith, Mark Moran and Kurt Seemann

20. Published 23 March 2010
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21. Published 23 March 2010
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22. Published 22 June 2011
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R. D. B. Whalley, J. N. Price, M. J. Macdonald and P. J. Berney

23. Published 23 March 2011
The distribution of Carrichtera annua in Australia: introduction, spread and probable limits

Julia Cooke, R. H. Groves and Julian Ash

24. Published 22 June 2011
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C. J. Puig, R. Greiner, C. Huchery, I. Perkins, L. Bowen, N. Collier and S. T. Garnett

25. Published 22 June 2011
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Benjamin G. Russell, Mike Letnic and Peter J. S. Fleming

26. Published 22 June 2011
A site-based approach to delivering rangeland ecosystem services

Joel Brown and Neil MacLeod

27. Published 14 September 2010
Resilience of floodplain ecosystems in a semi-arid environment

Matthew J. Colloff and Darren S. Baldwin

28. Published 22 June 2011
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29. Published 23 March 2011
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Y. Alemseged, R. B. Hacker, W. J. Smith and G. J. Melville

30. Published 23 March 2011
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J. N. Dunlop and R. D. Bullen

31. Published 9 November 2006
Aboriginal perspectives on kangaroo management in South Australia

D. A. Thomsen, K. Muir and J. Davies

32. Published 26 March 2009
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G. M. McKeon, G. S. Stone, J. I. Syktus, J. O. Carter, N. R. Flood, D. G. Ahrens, D. N. Bruget, C. R. Chilcott, D. H. Cobon, R. A. Cowley, S. J. Crimp, G. W. Fraser, S. M. Howden, P. W. Johnston, J. G. Ryan, C. J. Stokes and K. A. Day

33. Published 1 April 2008
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34. Published 26 March 2009
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35. Published 23 March 2011
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36. Published 22 June 2011
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37. Published 1 April 2008
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38. Published 15 June 2002
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John Rolfe

39. Published 23 March 2010
Changes in Aboriginal perceptions of feral camels and of their impacts and management

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40. Published 29 May 2006
Biological control of rangeland weeds in Australia

M. H. Julien

41. Published 26 November 2010
An optimised rapid detection technique for simultaneously monitoring activity of rabbits, cats, foxes and dingoes in the rangelands

John Read and Steve Eldridge

42. Published 28 August 2009
The influence of buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) on biodiversity in an arid Australian landscape

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43. Published 15 June 2001
Two ecological universes separated by the Dingo Barrier Fence in semi-arid Australia: interactions between landscapes, herbivory and carnivory, with and without dingoes

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44. Published 14 June 2007
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45. Published 29 November 2011
A framework for sustainable rangeland livelihoods

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46. Published 15 June 2003
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47. Published 28 August 2009
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48. Published 9 September 2011
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49. Published 23 March 2011
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50. Published 29 November 2011
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51. Published 23 March 2010
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52. Published 29 November 2011
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53. Published 29 May 2006
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54. Published 14 September 2010
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56. Published 23 March 2010
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57. Published 14 September 2010
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58. Published 1 April 1983
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59. Published 1 April 2008
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60. Published 27 November 2009
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61. Published 28 August 2009
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62. Published 29 May 2006
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63. Published 1 April 2008
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64. Published 9 September 2011
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65. Published 29 November 2011
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66. Published 15 June 2001
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67. Published 1 April 2008
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68. Published 26 November 2010
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69. Published 1 April 2008
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70. Published 1 April 2008
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71. Published 1 April 2008
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72. Published 1 August 1992
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73. Published 26 March 2009
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74. Published 22 June 2011
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75. Published 9 September 2011
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76. Published 29 November 2011
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77. Published 1 August 1996
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78. Published 1 April 2008
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79. Published 23 March 2010
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