Resetting the compass : Australia's journey towards sustainability

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Title:

Author:

Yencken, David.

ISBN:

9780643063853

Personal Author:

Yencken, David.

Edition:

Updated ed.

Publication Information:

Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Publishing, 2001.

Physical Description:

xvi, 400 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Contents:

Chapter 1. The issues -- ch. 2. The physical and global context -- ch. 3. Population, consumption and technological change -- ch. 4. Energy -- ch. 5. Material flows and wastes -- ch. 6. The sustainability of settlements -- ch. 7. Atmosphere -- ch. 8. Biodiversity -- ch. 9. Land and waters -- ch. 10. Estuaries and the sea -- ch. 11. Present policies and future targets -- ch. 12. Political and economic change -- ch. 13. The four pillars of wisdom.

Subject Term:

Environmental protection -- Australia.

Sustainable development -- Australia.

Human ecology -- Australia.

Biodiversity conservation -- Australia.

Added Author:

Wilkinson, Debra.

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Summary

A discussion of Australia's environmental problems and how they can be solved. It argues that, to deal with them, the resource inputs and pressures must be reduced, behaviour and practice must be improved, and the impacts of emissions and waste outputs must be reduced.