Back from the brink : how Australia's landscape can be saved / Peter Andrews.
Back from the brink : how Australia's landscape can be saved / Peter Andrews.
Back from the brink : how Australia's landscape can be saved / Peter Andrews.
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Publisher
Sydney : ABC Books, 2006.
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Date
2006.
Call Numbers
N631.64/9 , 631.64/2
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
xii, 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Foreword / John Williams -- Foreword / Gerry Harvey -- 1. This land of ours -- 2. Salinity: a catastrophe ahead -- 3. Early days -- 4. A lesson in biodiversity -- 5. Tarwyn Park -- 6. The remaking of Tarwyn Park -- 7. Australia as it used to be -- 8. A hot, dry and very flat continent -- 9. The trut...
Publication information
Publisher
Sydney : ABC Books, 2006.
Place of Publication
New South Wales
Date Published
2006.
Access and use
Access Conditions
Peter Andrews 2006.
Subjects
Subject Keywords
- Natural resource management
- Sustainable agriculture
- New South Wales
- Biodiversity
- Water resources
- Salinity
- Farms
- Hunter Valley (NSW)
- Peter Andrews
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"Australia faces a catastrophe. For 200 years, our farmers have been using methods developed in European climates and landforms which, in Australia, have wreaked havoc. On the driest inhabited continent on earth, the delicate balance between the land, its climate and inhabitants has been disrupted. Where once our country was able to survive long dr...
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Full title
Back from the brink : how Australia's landscape can be saved / Peter Andrews.
Variant title
Australian story (Television program)
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General note
Includes index.
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N631.64/9 , 631.64/2
Record Identifier
74VKKEd3ZllM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKKEd3ZllM
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ISBN
0733319629 (pbk.)
9780733319624 (pbk.)
DDC
333.731530994
MMS ID
991021893959702626
