In 2005, researchers from four Australian universities and CSIRO joined forces with environmental managers from three state agencies and six regional catchment management authorities to answer the question: 'Can we detect the influence …
[ Books ] Natural Environment — Natural Environment / Environmental Management
Geelong's Changing Landscape offers an insightful investigation of the ecological history of the Geelong and Bellarine Peninsula region. Commencing with the penetrating perspectives of Wadawurrung Elders, chapters explore colonisation …
[ Books ] Built Environment — Built Environment / Planning and Design
This second edition of the award-winning Soils for Landscape Development provides a globally applicable method for landscape architects and designers, specification writers, landscape contractors, nursery growers, turf specialists …
[ Books ] Natural Environment — Natural Environment / Soils
This book encapsulates the extensive knowledge developed by CSIRO's National Rangelands Program on how rangeland landscapes function and the implications for management. It looks at the ecology of rangeland landscape processes and deals …
[ Books ] Natural Environment — Natural Environment / Biodiversity and Ecology
Shortlisted in TAFE Vocational Education category in the 2004 Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing. The devastation wreaked by bushfires on Australian homes and landscapes is an all too familiar scenario. …
[ Books ] Built Environment — Built Environment / Building
Achieving high water use efficiency in maintaining turf, trees and landscape areas is a core responsibility of open space managers. Water Use Efficiency for Irrigated Turf and Landscape provides a logical and scientifically sound …
[ Books ] Gardening & Horticulture — Gardening & Horticulture / Horticulture
These soil specifications have been extracted from the second edition of Soils for Landscape Development and are provided as an editable PDF for ease of use in reports compiled by landscape designers for their clients. Please note …
[ Books ] Built Environment — Built Environment / Landscape Architecture
The third title in the CSIRO Gardening Guide series, Sustainable Gardens by Roger Spencer and Rob Cross shows how horticulture can contribute towards a more sustainable future. Written for home gardeners, professional horticulturists, …
[ Books ] Gardening & Horticulture — Gardening & Horticulture / Sustainability
Wetland planting can bring back biodiversity, reduce the impact of drought and flood, improve water quality and conserve beauty in a mismanaged landscape. Planting Wetlands and Dams is a step-by-step, plain language guide to the creation …
[ Books ] Food & Agriculture — Food & Agriculture / Landcare
This comprehensive reference on the fundamentals of regolith geoscience describes how regolith is developed from parental rocks and emphasises the importance of chemical, physical, water and biological processes in regolith formation. It …
[ Books ] Natural Environment — Natural Environment / Soils
Come on an action-packed adventure with an amazing mob of animal eco-warriors as they use their special talents to help solve our planet’s environmental problems! From the nosy noses of biosecurity beagles at airports to rats learning …
[ Books ] Children — Children / Children and Teen Non-Fiction
It must be appreciated that no building surface is perfectly flat and that the best that can be expected is the appearance of flatness. Unfortunately, this appearance can easily be destroyed by the effect of glancing light, whether natural …
[ Books ] Built Environment — Built Environment / Building
Many florists and consumers still believe in old myths such as burning, bashing or boiling stems and adding aspirin to vase water. Scientific trials now show that such methods rarely help and some are actually damaging. Caring …
[ Books ] Gardening & Horticulture — Gardening & Horticulture / Horticulture
The Hymenoptera is one of the largest orders of terrestrial arthropods and comprises the sawflies, wasps, ants, bees and parasitic wasps. Hymenoptera: Evolution, Biodiversity and Biological Control examines the current state of all …
[ Books ] Animals — Animals / Invertebrates
This essential reference provides an introduction to the remarkable soils and landscapes of Australia. It reveals their great diversity and explains why an understanding of soil properties and landscape processes should guide our use of …
[ Books ] Natural Environment — Natural Environment / Soils
Within the Yarra River catchment area nestles the valley of Steels Creek, a small shallow basin in the lee of Kinglake plateau and the Great Dividing Range. The escarpment walls of the range drop in a series of ridges to the valley and form …
[ Books ] Natural Environment — Natural Environment / Fire
Did you ever wonder why some insects can walk on water? Or how the ancient Egyptians made mummies? Are you curious about why a guitar sounds different from a flute? Gather some everyday materials from around your home and find out the answers …
[ Books ] Children — Children / Activity Books
Mining in Ecologically Sensitive Landscapes explores the interface between geology and botany, and mining and conservation. Many areas of unusual geology that contain ore-bearing bodies also support unique ecological communities of …
[ Books ] Natural Environment — Natural Environment / Environmental Management
Australian Planting Design identifies and explores all aspects of developing better planting designs on any scale, raising awareness of the essential elements and encouraging readers to look with fresh eyes, to create anew. This …
[ Books ] Built Environment — Built Environment / Landscape Architecture
Weak rocks encountered in open pit mines cover a wide variety of materials, with properties ranging between soil and rock. As such, they can provide a significant challenge for the slope designer. For these materials, the mass strength can …
[ Books ] Physical Sciences — Physical Sciences / Mining and Resources