Sustainable Land Sector Development in Northern Australia

Sustainable Land Sector Development in Northern Australia

Author: Jeremy Russell-Smith

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-09-03

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0429895585

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Key Features: Provides clear and authoritative recommendations for managing fire in ecological and social contexts Authors are all international leaders in their fields and include not only academics but also leaders of Indigenous communities Explains Indigenous cultural and knowledge systems to a degree that has rarely been accessible to lay and academic readers outside specialized disciplines like Anthropology Responds to growing need for new approaches to managing human-ecological systems that are in greater sympathy with Australia’s natural environments/climate, and value the knowledge of Indigenous people Timely for scholarly and interest groups intervention, as the Australian government is again looking to ‘develop the north' Sustainable Land Sector Development in Northern Australia sets out a vision for developing North Australia based on a culturally appropriate and ecologically sustainable land sector economy. This vision supports both Indigenous cultural responsibilities and aspirations, as well as enhancing enterprise opportunities for society as a whole. In the past, well-meaning if often misguided policy agendas have failed - and continue to fail - North Australians. This book helps breach that gap by acknowledging and harnessing Indigenous cultural strengths and knowledge systems for looking after the country and its people, as part of a smart, novel and diversified ecosystem services economy.


Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability

Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability

Author: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Working Group II.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-07-02

Total Pages: 1044

ISBN-13: 9780521015004

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Some issues addressed in this Working Group III volume are mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, managing biological carbon reservoirs, geo-engineering, costing methods, and decision-making frameworks.


Sustaining Eden

Sustaining Eden

Author: Jocelyn Davies

Publisher: IIED

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 190403523X

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The report focuses on Australian indigenous peoples' use and management of terrestrial vertebrates and some marine species.


Climate Change and Adaptation for Food Sustainability

Climate Change and Adaptation for Food Sustainability

Author: Ferdous Ahmed

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-01-03

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 3030853756

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This book assesses the vulnerability impacts of climate change on food security by examining a 50 years scenario (2015- 2065) and following a top-down approach. Importantly, looking at the sustainable food production, the authors compared the cost-benefit of adaptation costs from 2015 to 2065. It was found that a 15% adaptation capacity is more efficient for Malaysia in order to combat the climate change effects on the food sector. This book has developed a quantitative adaptive model namely, the Malaysian Climate and Economy (MCE) model, based on the dynamic Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modeling structure to examine food sustainability and adaptation strategies. Malaysia experiences an unusual combination of droughts and extreme rainfall events that can be attributed to climate change. These unusual events and consequences leave Malaysian policymakers looking for ways to make Malaysia self-sufficient in terms of agriculture. It is assumed that climate change effects may result in increasing food insecurity and vulnerability in the future. Policy measures are in place to lessen the likely climatic effects overall, but there is an urgent need to develop an adaptation policy for the future.