viii, 328 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 30 cm.

Opening Session -- Chair - Peter O'Brien, Bureau of Rural Sciences -- Opening speech, Minister for Agricuture, Fisheries and Forestry, Australia / delivered by GeoffreyGorrie -- Going beyond rhetoric: developing Australia sustainably / Nell Byron -- Learning from environmental mistakes: some thought...

The lie of the land: landscapes seminar -- Chair - Elaine Lawson, Lanyon Historic Precinct -- From pictures to politics: aesthetics and politics: in eighteenth century theories of the sublime and the picturesque / Peter Haynes -- Colonial picturesque: an antipodean Claude Glass / KenTaylor -- Images...

The aesthetics of remnant vegetation and rural landscape futures / John Cary -- After the scene, after the fever / GeoffPark - Post Aboriginality, litter and responsibility / lan North -- This El Dorado of pure recognition and desert of pure non-recognition / Mandy Martin -- Landscape gardens and th...

Visions of the Pilbara / George Seddon -- The fire that is the centre of each family: landscapes of the ancients / Marcia Langton -- Landscape and incident / Jonathon Bordo -- Visual presentations -- Environmental futures: the role of information technology / David Green -- The Fishman of South East...

Community solutions and cultural visions -- Chair - Don Blesing, Cooper Basin Management Committee -- Maori identity in the Aotearoa Landscape / Tipene O'Regan -- Culture, environment and landcare in the Yirrakala region of north-east Arnhem Land / Banduk Marika -- Whose places? Community involvemen...

Alternative directions for the twenty-first century: their implications for landscape and ecology / The late Robert Theobald -- Contributed papers and posters -- Closing comments / John Passioura -- Conference workshop Proceedings -- Chair - Andrew Pearce, Landcare New Zealand Ltd -- What have we le...