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Last updated on 20 May 2008

Encouraging revegetation in Australia with a groundwater recharge credit scheme

This paper describes a comprehensive method to design, test and then implement a Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) framework to combat the environmental consequences of extensive native vegetation clearance in Australia. (CSIRO: 2007) More info >>

The sustainability of mining in Australia: key production trends & environmental implications

This report has been undertaken to determine the long term sustainability of a range of Australia's mineral resources. (The Mineral Policy Institute: 2007) More info >>

Soil and water conservation initiatives worldwide: case studies & analysis

This book looks at soil and water conservation from a global perspective, covering 42 soil and water conservation technologies and 28 approaches from case studies around the world. (World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies: 2007) More info >>

Soil management & crop nutrition

Outline of two programs addressing water management, agriculture and environmental quality of broadscale resources, land, cropping systems and soil management at the field scale. (Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)) More info >>

Developing project proposals for the Global Environmental Facility

This guide is designed to provide people and organizations that have ideas about how to prevent land degradation or rehabilitate degraded land with plain-language, step-by-step directions for accessing funds from the Global Environmental Facility for sustainable land management. (The World Conservation Union: 2005) More info >>

Precaution principles and practice in Australian environmental and natural resource management

The paper looks at the use of the precautionary principle in relation to environmental and natural resource management in Australia. (Productivity Commission: 2006) More info >>

Land degradation

This paper defines and describes the implications of land degradation. (Agriculture and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin: 2007) More info >>

Land degradation: guidelines for field assessment

This practical handbook sets out rapid and non-technical methods for measuring and assessing land degradation in the field. (United Nations University) More info >>


 

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