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Why forests inspire: review of Australian tropical rainforests: science-values-meaning
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Bowman, DMJS, Why forests inspire: review of Australian tropical rainforests: science-values-meaning, Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters, 1, (4) pp. 128. ISSN 0960-7447 (1991) [Letter or Note in Journal]
Abstract
Review of L. J. Webb and J. Kikkawa (eds.). 1990. Australian tropical raintorests: science - values - meaning. East Melbourne, Australia: CSIRO Publications. ix, 185pp., tables, figs, photos, index. Hardback: price $55 (Australian). ISBN 0-643-05055-8.
The way Australian's treat their tropical rain forests is of global interest, not because this atypical Australian vegetation is any more unique than other tropical rain forests, but because Australia has advantages not shared by other nations with custodianship of this forest type. For this reason Australian tropical rain- forests is an important and timely book.
The book is a collection of nineteen papers that were originally presented at the 57th ANZAAS conference in 1987. Recent political developments have dated some of the text. Nonetheless, it is a useful summary of the motivation and arguments for the ces- sation of logging within the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area which was declared in December 1988.
Item Details
Item Type: | Letter or Note in Journal |
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Research Division: | Biological Sciences |
Research Group: | Ecology |
Research Field: | Ecology not elsewhere classified |
Objective Division: | Environmental Management |
Objective Group: | Fresh, ground and surface water systems and management |
Objective Field: | Assessment and management of freshwater ecosystems |
UTAS Author: | Bowman, DMJS (Professor David Bowman) |
ID Code: | 69113 |
Year Published: | 1991 |
Deposited By: | Plant Science |
Deposited On: | 2011-04-19 |
Last Modified: | 2011-06-17 |
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