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Canberra, Australia, 25 June 2013 - Scientists from Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, are applying their knowledge in transboundary river basin management to improve the livelihoods of people living in some of the poorest parts of Asia. CSIRO and its partners have begun work in the Koshi River Basin which stretches from China, across the Himalayas through Nepal...
Parks Victoria have pioneered the approach that is Healthy Parks Healthy People. Many organisations, inside and outside the parks sector, are realising the potential of this innovative approach to park management and community well being. Parks Victoria chose and developed Healthy Parks Healthy People as it encompasses all that they are committed to as the parks agency for the people of...
The area from the Australian Alps in Victoria to Atherton in Queensland (A2A) is essentially natural and unfragmented for 2800 north-south kilometres along sections of both the Great Dividing Range and the Great Escarpment of Eastern Australia (the great eastern ranges). In human terms, this natural connectedness has always been there. However, there are national scale threats to A2A from...
This publication, intended as a preparatory document for the World Ecotourism Summit in Quebec, 2002, reviews the current status and trends in ecotourism globally, the challenges ahead and the lessons learned in over 15 years of ecotourism development involving a broad range of stakeholders. Written by Megan Wood, the director of the International Ecotourism Society, it incorporates comments...
This publication, intended as a preparatory document for the World Ecotourism Summit in Quebec, 2002, reviews the current status and trends in ecotourism globally, the challenges ahead and the lessons learned in over 15 years of ecotourism development involving a broad range of stakeholders. Written by Megan Wood, the director of the International Ecotourism Society, it incorporates comments...
In the summer of 2003, the Australian Alps experienced their largest bushfires in over 60 years, with an estimated 1.73 million hectares burning. The bushfires burnt across Victoria, New South Wales (NSW), and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) during a drought that ranks as one of the worst in 103 years of official Australian weather records. The Australian Alps are found in southeastern...
This paper explores the notion of pluralism as it relates to the involvement of science in processes of environmental policy formulation. In particular, it focuses attention on the dominance of normal science within the Australian debate on commercial forest use, management, and conservation. It presents case study information from the Western Australian Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) process...
Tourism is a business. Despite attractive brochures that advertise international understanding and exchange between local people and tourists, tourism is clearly a business proposition for those who supply tourist services and those who market these services world-wide. It is also clear that tourists themselves are more interested in relaxation, a change of scenery, and their own enjoyment...
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