Listen. Our Land Is Crying: Australia's Environment: Problems and Solutions
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Water in a Changing Land, "WATERalways running downacross landscapes, through the eons and the ages, carving creases and wrinkles on the face of ancient continents. Life-giving, the essential resource for survival of Earth as a Living Planetyet running down, degrading, under our selfish human stewardship ... In Australia, the driest vegetated continent, water is the most precious resource and how we manage it will determine the future prospects of the nation. RUNNING DOWN Water in a Changing Land gives a deep-time perspective to the story of the co-evolution of water resources, the environment and the animal and plant life it supports. It sets the scene for an understanding of the geological history of the continent, the past history and the modern status of its water systems, and the impact of European land use and activities on our two main life-support systemswater and soil. Sustainable management of our land and water resources can only be achieved if the ancient history of the continent is taken into A.

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Australia has extremely serious problems of land and water degradation. After only two hundred years of our use, the damage to basic, life-supporting resources met systems, and the loss of biodiversity have been such that crisis point has been reached in many areas. Our land is crying out for help. The situation can no longer be ignored or shelved, nor can it continue to be dealt with in a piecemeal fashion, treating the symptoms of its declining health and not the causes the ëunsustainabilityí which is built into the land-use practices to which it is subjected. In order to understand the problems and to find long-term solutions, we need to see the big picture. When we see Australia in the global context, we find that it suffers the same problems as the rest of the world, created by pressures of expanding human populations and unsustainable use of basic resources. Global climate change will affect our continent and our lives just as it affects other lands and peoples. In the context of its island continent status, Australia has had a unique geological history which accounts for its poor soils and their erodibility; the nature of its rivers and groundwater supplies; its problems with salinity; and the specialised adaptations of its flora and fauna and the ecosystems which they comprise to the uniquely Australian environments which evolved through geological time. It is the driest vegetated continent, with 75% of its area under arid regimes - and arid lands are inherently fragile; it has a highly variable climate which compounds the effects of aridity; it is the flattest continent, with lowest overall relief, and its poor drainage accounts for its saline water-table; its biodiversity and the high level of endemism of its plants and animals are the result of its geological history, and preserving that biodiversity and preventing extinctions is our responsibility, and ours alone. Understanding the geological history which has made Australia unique enables us to understand why the imposition of European agriculture and land-use practices on this ancient, fragile land and the introduction of foreign animals and plants, has had such disastrous consequences. Listen. Our Land is Crying presents the big picture of land-use, the degradation of land and water resources, and some of the wonders of this amazing continent, and provides a prescription for ensuring a bright future for Australia. Hardcover, Label: Rosenberg Publishing, Rosenberg Publishing, Product group: Book, Published: 1997-01-01, Studio: Rosenberg Publishing, Sales rank: 16550462.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, THE CROSS Art + Books [2544790], Sydney, NSW, Australia.
28.0 x 21.0cms, 278pp, b/w & colour illusts, very good+ hardback & dustwrapper The chapters are:Australia's climate; Australia's geological history; biodiversity; soil; salt & slaination of soil & water; the Murray-Darling basin & river system; the Riverine Plain of the Murray Basin; Australia's grasslands; the 5 focal catchments of the national dryland salinity program; out of control; the tropical North; the arid range lands; mining & the environment; forests & wilderness; coastal & marine environments & the eastern green crescent.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, HPB-Ohio.
"WATERóalways running downóacross landscapes, through the eons and the ages, carving creases and wrinkles on the face of ancient continents. Life-giving, the essential resource for survival of Earth as a Living Planetóyet running down, degrading, under our selfish human stewardship ... In Australia, the driest vegetated continent, water is the most precious resource and how we manage it will determine the future prospects of the nation. RUNNING DOWN Water in a Changing Land gives a deep-time perspective to the story of the co-evolution of water resources, the environment and the animal and plant life it supports. It sets the scene for an understanding of the geological history of the continent, the past history and the modern status of its water systems, and the impact of European land use and activities on our two main life-support systemsówater and soil. Sustainable management of our land and water resources can only be achieved if the ancient history of the continent is taken into account and the limitations set by this unique land itself are recognised, RUNNING DOWN is thus a companion volume to Listen Our Land is Crying; complementing it and expanding the big picture, explaining modern water-related problems against the prehistoric background. Exploration of the subject confirms that Australia is unique and that this ancient land has some of the oldest landscapes preserved anywhere on Earth as well as some of the most ancient drainage patterns. What comprises a river system in Australia is usually far removed from the accepted concept of a river in Europe. Many of our rivers occupy ancient valleys, incised by their ancestors multi-millions of years ago or are superimposed on palaeoriver systems. Flat, poorly drained landscapes and an inwardly-draining centre of the continent have led to a vast accumulation of sediments and of salt, and much of Australia comprises floodplains spread by ancestral rivers, The floodplains of our modern rivers are as essentially part of the river systems as are the channels and banks, While the ancient history through geological time provides a background necessary for the understanding of the modern hydrology of the continent, the modern information gleaned from writings of explorers and pioneers on the status of rivers and landscapes at the time of European settlement establishes a benchmark against which changes due to human activities can he measured. It is surprising to find just how much change has in fact occurred, Changes resulting from our land-use practices and use of water resources have turned many rivers into drains. (A river is a living ecosystem, a drain is simply a conduit which carries water through a landscape.) Deep incision of stream beds; loss of chains of ponds or swamps in headwaters; loss of reedbeds; siltation and widening of channels; degradation of reaches downstream of dams and weirs; salination of riverwater; pollution with agricultural chemicals, sewage, industrial waste; increased nutrients promoting algal blooms; over-exploitation for irrigationóan endless list of changes result from human activities. Many rivers, including the Darling, are slowly dying. Groundwaters have been wantonly exploited without regard for the future, and in many cases it is fossil water which is being exploited. Unless the past history of the continent and the evolution of its hydrology are understood and taken into account there is no hope of curing todayís problems and achieving a situation which approaches sustainability of Australiaís precious water resources. ", Hardcover, Label: Rosenberg Publishing, Rosenberg Publishing, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2000-01-01, Studio: Rosenberg Publishing, Verkaufsrang: 13313913.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Fine Print Books (ABA) [42376], Erskineville, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
hardcover in very good condition, some shelf wear, dustwrapper a little worn on edges; 296pp, colour illusts, heavy book which will require excess postage outside Australia.

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Listen...Our Land Is Crying: Australia's Environment: Problems and Solutions by White, Mary E., 1997-01-01. Hard cover.

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