Scientific knowledge alone will not help countries achieve sustainable management of land, water and biota. Everyone now realises that a partnership is needed between land and water users, scientists, managers and the community if countries are to achieve the goal of preserving rural resources.
This book deals with broad issues relating to resource decline and how different groups such as farmers, rural town dwellers, resource managers and government deal with these issues from social, economic and ecological points of view.
Contributors
Preface
Scientific and Social Impediments to Restoration Ecology as Applied to Rural Landscapes
The Farming Environment
Water, Politics and Power: Can we Integrate Natural Resource Management in Rural Australia?
Challenges for the Conservation of Biodiversity in Australian Freshwater Ecosystems
Water and Landscapes: Perceptions and Expectations
Sustaining Natural Resources and Biological Diversity in Terrestrial Ecosystems of Rural Australia
Nutrients and Algal Blooms: Lessons from Inland Catchments
Beefing up our Trade: Health and Environmental Concerns and Rural Exports
Impediments to the Achievements of the Commercial and Conservation Benefits of Farm Forestry
Toward Regional Strategies for Rural Sustainability: A Farmer's View
Saline Politics: An Inland City Case Study
Growing Food and Growing Houses: Preserving Agricultural Land on the Fringes of Cities
Social and Economic Costs and Benefits of Taking Water from our Rivers: the Macquarie Marshes as a Test Case
Co-operative Management of Road Reserves for Biodiversity Maintenance
Researchers, farmers, academics and undergraduates across both social and agricultural sciences, resource managers and community groups will all find this a valuable source of information.
"The book contains a set of chapters dealing with broad issues relating to resource decline. A second set of chapters by farmers, rural town dwellers, and resource managers focuses on how different groups in the community deal with these issues to solve resource use problems... Most of the contributors' comments are thought provoking as Peter Cullen’s chapter on water demonstrates."
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