Environmental indicators for national state of the environment reporting : Biodiversity
Saunders, Denis1998
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A key set of environmental indicators for biodiversity recommended for Australian state of the environment reporting at the national scale. Monitoring strategies, approaches to interpreting and analysing, sources of data and recommendations.
Main title:
Environmental indicators for national state of the environment reporting : Biodiversity / by Denis Saunders, Chris Margules and Burke Hill
Imprint:
Canberra Environment Australia Department of the Environment 1998
Collation:
68 pages
Contents:
Commonwealth state of the environment reporting - Environmental indicators - Scope of biological diversity - Indicators for biological diversity - Conceptual and policy approaches to biological diversity - Approach to selecting indicators - Regionalisations and scales for reporting on national environmental indicators - Vegetation types - Target taxa - Key indicators - Pressure: human population growth, density and demand - Pressure: clearing/fragmentation/degradation of native vegetation or marine habitat - Pressure: alien or exotic species - Pressure: genetically modified organisms (GMOs) - Pressure: pollution - Pressure: altered fire regimes - Pressure: human-induced climate change - Pressure: harvesting - Indicators of condition of biological diversity - Condition: condition of genetic diversity - Condition: condition of species diversity - Condition: condition of ecosystem diversity - Indicators of responses to pressures and condition of biological diversity - Response: regional planning and management, and integrated land and sea management - Response: establishment and management of a comprehensive, adequate and representative system of protected areas - Response: knowledge of biological diversity and existing conservation arrangements - Response: management of threatened species and ecological communities - Response: ex-situ conservation - Response: harvesting of native biota - Response: retention and management of native biota - Response: control of alien species and genetically modified organisms - Response: control of the impacts of pollution on biological diversity - Response: reduction of the impacts of altered fire regimes on biological diversity - Response: minimising the potential impacts of human-induced climate change on biological diversity - Response: planning to minimise the impacts of development on biological diversity - Response: improving our knowledge of biological diversity - Response: involving the community in conservation and management of biological diversity - Response: Australias international role in conservation of biological diversity
ISBN:
0642545219
Dewey class:
333.7 ENV
Local class:
333.7
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
41686
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