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Resetting the Compass

Australia's Journey Towards Sustainability

By: David Yencken,Debra Wilkinson

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Resetting the Compass

Australia's Journey Towards Sustainability

By: David Yencken,Debra Wilkinson

Resetting the Compass: Australia's Journey Towards Sustainability Updated Edition sets out Australia's environmental problems in their global context and explains what is now needed to fix them. It also illustrates how ecological sustainability can be achieved together with economic, social and cultural sustainability. The book examines the pressures on our environment from population growth, consumption patterns and technological change. The specific actions needed to deal with each of the problems identified are described in detail. This Edition includes: *Assessments from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. *Figures related to Australia's emissions from the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory. *Assessments of conditions and trends from the National Land and Water Audit. *Estimates of the volume of vegetation clearing and new information on wind farms. This book is essential reading for politicians and public servants; business leaders and managers; environmentalists; academics and students in environmental courses; and all those interested in environmental issues.

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CSIRO PUBLISHING

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0643099921

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9780643099920

Planning for Urban Country

Taking First Nations Values into Future Urban Designs

By: David S. Jones

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Planning for Urban Country

Taking First Nations Values into Future Urban Designs

By: David S. Jones

Planning for Urban Country addresses a major gap in knowledge about the translation of Aboriginal values and Country Plans into Australia’s built environment contexts. How do you ‘heal’ Country if it has been devastated by concrete and bitumen, excavations and bulldozing, weeds and introduced plants and animals, and surface, aerial and underground contaminants? How then do Aboriginal values and Country Plan aspirations address urban environments? In this book, David Jones explores the major First Nations-informed design and planning transformations in Djilang / Greater Geelong since 2020. Included are short-interlinked essays about the political and cultural context, profiles of key exemplar architectural, landscape and corridor projects, a deep explanation of the legislative, policy and statutory precedents, opportunities and environment that has enabled these opportunities, and the how Wadawurrung past-present-future values have been scaffolded into these changes.

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322

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Springer Nature

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9819971926

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9789819971923

Urban Microclimate

Designing the Spaces Between Buildings

By: Evyatar Erell,David Pearlmutter,Terence Williamson

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Urban Microclimate

Designing the Spaces Between Buildings

By: Evyatar Erell,David Pearlmutter,Terence Williamson

The quality of life of millions of people living in cities could be improved if the form of the city were to evolve in a manner appropriate to its climatic context. Climatically responsive urban design is vital to any notion of sustainability: it enables individual buildings to make use of renewable energy sources for passive heating and cooling, it enhances pedestrian comfort and activity in outdoor spaces, and it may even encourage city dwellers to moderate their dependence on private vehicles. Urban Microclimate bridges the gap between climatology research and applied urban design. It provides architects and urban design professionals with an understanding of how the structure of the built environment at all scales affects microclimatic conditions in the space between buildings, and analyzes the interaction between microclimate and each of the elements of the urban landscape. In the first two sections of the book, the extensive body of work on this subject by climatologists and geographers is presented in the language of architecture and planning professionals. The third section follows each step in the design process, and in part four a critical analysis of selected case study projects provides a demonstration of the complexity of applied urban design. Practitioners will find in this book a useful guide to consult, as they address these key environmental issues in their own work.

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Routledge

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1136539425

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Absent Friends

By: David J.Butler M.B.E.

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Absent Friends

By: David J.Butler M.B.E.

All proceeds from the sale of this book will go to the Madrid British Cemetery El total de la venta se destinará al Cementerio Británico en Madrid

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Editorial Circulo Rojo

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8413741564

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Wildlife Tourism

By: David Newsome,Ross K. Dowling,Susan A. Moore

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Wildlife Tourism

By: David Newsome,Ross K. Dowling,Susan A. Moore

This book is a landmark contribution to the rapidly growing field of wildlife tourism, especially in regard to its underpinning foundations of science, conservation and policy. Written by a number of environmental and biological scientists it explains the synergy between wildlife and tourism by drawing on their global experiences.

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Channel View Publications

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1845413164

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9781845413163

Lessons for the Future

The Missing Dimension in Education

By: Dr David Hicks,David Hicks

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Lessons for the Future

The Missing Dimension in Education

By: Dr David Hicks,David Hicks

Drawing on the latest research in futures studies, this book provides new insights into ways of helping both students and teachers think more critically and creatively about their own future and that of wider society. It acknowledges the crucial role of education in helping young people understand the nature of local and global change and the social and environmental impacts such change will have on their future. Setting out a clear educational rationale for promoting global and futures perspective in education, it provides helpful and stimulating examples of futures-orientated classroom activities. It also includes fascinating research into children's views of the future.

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Routledge

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1134474490

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9781134474493

Practical Conservation Biology

By: David Lindenmayer,Mark Burgman

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Practical Conservation Biology

By: David Lindenmayer,Mark Burgman

Practical Conservation Biology covers the complete array of topics that are central to conservation biology and natural resource management, thus providing the essential framework for under-graduate and post-graduate courses in these subject areas. Written by two of the world’s leading environment experts, it is a ‘must have’ reference for environment professionals in government, non-government and industry sectors. The book reflects the latest thinking on key topics such as extinction risks, losses of genetic variability, threatening processes, fire effects, landscape fragmentation, habitat loss and vegetation clearing, reserve design, sustainable harvesting of natural populations, population viability analysis, risk assessment, conservation biology policy, human population growth and its impacts on biodiversity. Practical Conservation Biology deals primarily with the Australian context but also includes many overseas case studies. The book is the most comprehensive assessment of conservation topics in Australia and one of the most comprehensive worldwide. Winner of the 2006 Whitley Award for Best Conservation Text.

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CSIRO PUBLISHING

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0643099468

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9780643099463

Harry Boland's Irish Revolution

By: David Fitzpatrick

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Harry Boland's Irish Revolution

By: David Fitzpatrick

Along with his close comrades Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera, Harry Boland (1887-1922) was probably the most influential Irish revolutionary between 1917 and 1922. His sway extended to almost every aspect of republican activity. Already prominent as a hurler before 1916, he was convicted and imprisoned after an energetic Easter Week. He subsequently became Honorary Secretary of Sinn Fein, T.D. for South Roscommon in the First Dail, President of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's Supreme Council, and a republican envoy in the United States between May 1919 and December 1921. He broke with Collins over the Treaty, but became the chief intermediary between the factions. Early in the Civil War, however, he was killed by National army officers in the Grand Hotel, Skerries. Boland's influence was the product of charm, gregariousness, wit, and ruthlessness. After his rebel father's early death, Boland's mother raised him in a spirit of intransigent hostility to Britain. Yet he was also stylish, cosmopolitan, and humane. His celebrated contest with Collins for the love of Kitty Kiernan is perhaps the most intriguing of all Irish political romances. Attractive yet elusive, his personality helped shape the Irish revolution. David Fitzpatrick's biography draws upon documents in Irish, British, and American archives, including his American diaries and thousands of letters to, from, and about Boland. Extensive use has been made of family papers and de Valera's vast archive on the Irish campaign in America. These and other recently released documents illuminate the inner workings of Irish republicanism, and the critical importance of brotherhood in the revolution. As an old-fashioned republican and advocate of 'physical force', Boland is still venerated as a martyr by revolutionary republicans. Yet, in his conduct, he practised the ambiguities associated with Sinn Fein in today's Northern Ireland. Doctrine was subordinated to the twin quests for republican unity and political supremacy, entailing reiterated compromise, systematic duplicity, and mastery of propagandist techniques. If his outlook seems archaic, his practice was astonishingly modern. Harry Boland was a forerunner for Adams and McGuinness. -- Publisher description.

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Cork University Press

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1859183867

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Exploring Place in the Australian Landscape

In the Country of the White Cockatoo

By: David S. Jones

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Exploring Place in the Australian Landscape

In the Country of the White Cockatoo

By: David S. Jones

This book offers an original framework on how to investigate, understand and translate sense of place at a regional scale. The book explores contemporary sense of place theory and practice, drawing upon the Western District of Victoria, in Australia, being the "Country of the White Cockatoo". It offers a unique multi-temporal and thematical analytical approach towards comprehending and mapping the values that underpin and determine strengths of human relationships and nuances to this landscape. Included is a deep ethno-ecological and cross-cultural translation, that takes the reader through both the Western understanding of sense of place as well as the Australian Aboriginal understanding of Country. Both are different intellectual constructions of thoughts, values and ideologies, but which share numerous commonalities due to their archetypal meanings, feelings and values transmitted to humans.

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Springer Nature

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9811932131

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9789811932137

Resetting the Compass

Australia's Journey Towards Sustainability

By: David Yencken,Debra Wilkinson

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Australia's Journey Towards Sustainability

By: David Yencken,Debra Wilkinson

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Restoring The Land

By: Laurie Cosgrove,David G Evans,David Yencken

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Restoring The Land

By: Laurie Cosgrove,David G Evans,David Yencken

This provocative book brings together scholars and practitioners from many different disciplines. Philosopher and churchman, farmer and feminist, politician and agronomist—each considers environmental issues from a unique perspective. Part I explores the clash between the Western world’s traditional belief in progress and development, and an emerging set of beliefs based on a new environmental ethic. Part II demonstrates that scientific knowledge is not always enough to solve an environmental problem—indeed, to a politician or a farmer, ‘expert’ knowledge may be less important than the attitudes of voters, consumers and the community; and Part III takes agricultural sustainability and the degradation of farming lands as a case study. The special concerns of the farming community and the practical difficulties imposed by the rural crisis are given due weight; and specific problems, such as salinity, are discussed in detail. To create a sustainable future, we must make a renewed attempt to define a human relationship with the spirit of the land. By drawing together authors with many different interests and backgrounds this book makes a valuable contribution to that dialogue. It will be of interest to all who are involved with land use and environmental decision-making, and to all readers who are concerned about Australia’s future.

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Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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0522863078

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9780522863079

Where are We Going

Comprehensive Social, Cultural, Environmental and Economic Reporting

By: David Yencken

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Where are We Going

Comprehensive Social, Cultural, Environmental and Economic Reporting

By: David Yencken

Where are we going: comprehensive social, cultural, environmental and exonomic reporting.

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0858713357

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Into the Future

The Neglect of the Long Term in Australian Politics

By: Ian Marsh,David Yencken

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Into the Future

The Neglect of the Long Term in Australian Politics

By: Ian Marsh,David Yencken

An examination of Australia's current approach to long term issues and its ability to develop informed public opinion about Australia's future.

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Black Incorporated

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1863953256

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The National Estate in 1981

A Report of the Australian Heritage Commission

By: David Yencken

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The National Estate in 1981

A Report of the Australian Heritage Commission

By: David Yencken

Chap.5; The Aboriginal National Estate - summarizes the Commissions work with Aboriginal sites, lists those suitable for nomination to the World Heritage List, discusses archaeological sites, art sites and sites of significance, cites relevant legislation and refers to consultation processes with Aborigines.

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0642068496

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Resetting the Compass

Resetting the Compass

Planning for Urban Country

Planning for Urban Country

Urban Microclimate

Urban Microclimate

Absent Friends

Absent Friends

Wildlife Tourism

Wildlife Tourism

Lessons for the Future

Lessons for the Future

Practical Conservation Biology

Practical Conservation Biology

Harry Boland's Irish Revolution

Harry Boland's Irish Revolution

Exploring Place in the Australian Landscape

Exploring Place in the Australian Landscape

Resetting the Compass

Resetting the Compass

Restoring The Land

Restoring The Land

Where are We Going

Where are We Going

Into the Future

Into the Future

The National Estate in 1981

The National Estate in 1981

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