Systematics and taxonomy of Australian birds

by Les Christidis and Walter E. Boles.

"This book presents an up-to-date classification of Australian birds. Building on the authors 1994 book, The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of Australia and its Territories, it incorporates the extensive volume of relevant systematic work since then. The findings of these studies are summarised and evaluated in the explanations for the taxonomic treatments adopted, and with the extensive citations, it serves as a comprehensive introduction to the recent systematic literature of Australian birds."--Publisher.
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The state of Australia’s birds 2008

Compiled by Penny Olsen

“This report is an overview of the status of Australia’s birds, the threats they face and the conservation actions taken. This 2008 report focuses on trends in bird populations revealed by about 50 long-term monitoring programs running for up to 40 years. ... Although the report deals with birds, the findings have much broader implications for nature and society – birds are indicators of national quality of life. The latest results show that populations of many common bird species are in decline, evidence that the natural environment is continuing to be eroded through over-use, underinvestment and its care and restoration, and undervaluing of its importance” – author’s preface.
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Changing sea levels

David Pugh

"Changing Sea Levels is a basic sea level text for all related interdisciplinary studies. It presents an introduction to measurement techniques including satellite altimetry, tidal analysis and prediction, storm surges and flooding risks, and discusses how they are estimated. The author explains the concepts involved in understanding and forecasting future sea level changes and impacts. Examples and illustrations are drawn from all around the world as befits the global nature of the topic."
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System innovation for sustainability 1

edited by Arnold Tukker and others.

This book "examines what SCP is and what it could be, provides a state-of-the-art review of the governance of change in SCP policy and looks at the strengths and weaknesses of current approaches...
Each chapters of this book examines problems and suggests solutions from a business, design, consumer and system innovation perspective..." - book jacket.
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Sustainable value

by Chris Laszlo.

"In this outstanding book, Chris Laszlo defines, illustrates, and shows how business can action "Sustainable Value" through a management fable, inside stories from some of the largest corporations in the world, and with frameworks, tools, and methods that will make Sustainable Value creation concrete for business practitioners everywhere." book jacket.

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The state of food and agriculture

Issued by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

This 2008 edition "explores the implications of the rapid recent growth in production of biofuels based on agricultural commodities. The boom in liquid biofuels has been largely induced by policies in developed countries, based on their expected positive contributions to climate-change mitigation, energy security and agricultural development. The growing demand for agricultural commodities for the production of biofuels is having significant repercussions on agricultural markets, and concerns are mounting over their negative impact on the food security of millions of people across the world..." - back cover

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Making sustainability work

by Marc J. Epstein.

Marc Epstin has produced the ultimate "how-to-do-it" guide for corporate leaders, strategists, academics, sustainability consultants, and anyone else with an interest in actually making sustainability work for organizations. With a growing number of corporate leaders asking for urgent help in "getting this done," the timing of the book could not be better." - book jacket.

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The difference makers

by Sandra Waddock.

"The Difference Makers is a history and detailed analysis of how corporate responsibility has emerged as a key political, social, and business issue, and why it has evolved so quickly, and what the visions of its thought leaders are for the future. It will be essential reading for academics, business people, and all those who are interested in the future of the corporation" - book jacket.

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The Garnaut climate change review

by Ross Garnaut

The Garnaut Climate Change Review examines the impacts of climate change on the Australian economy and the costs of adaptation and mitigation. It analyses the elements of an appropriate international policy response, and the challenges that face Australia in playing it proportionate part in that response.

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Australian code for the transport of dangerous goods by road and rail

"The 7th edition of the Code adopts the structure, format, definitions and concepts of the United Nations Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods Model Regulations fourteenth revised edition while retaining Australian specific provisions"--Foreword.
"The Code is supported by a revised legislative framework consisting of a Model Act, and a model set of regulations (or Model Subordinate Law)."--Foreword.

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Biodiversity : integrating conservation and production

Editors: Ted Lefroy, Kay Bailey, Greg Unwin & Tony Norton

"In June 2007, 20 years after the Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke announced the Decade of Landcare, 250 farmers, foresters and fishers from all states met in Launceston as guests of the community Group Tamar Natural Resource Management to reflect on the question Is it possible to be good environmental managers and prosper in our businesses? This book contains 17 of their stories. They include heroic accounts of families who changed their way of farming and their relationship to the land so significantly they found they could stop hand feeding stock during a drought and see the bush coming back. It describes the experience with bush tenders that were over subscribed as farmers competed with each other for stewardship payments to manage their grazing lands for endangered ground-nesting birds as well as beef and wool. And a group of wheat growers who plant patches of grassland for beneficial insects that save them tens of thousands of dollars a year in pesticide bills. Australia’s experiment in community based environmental repair is unique in the world, and there has been no shortage of analysis by bureaucrats, academics and environmentalists. This collection of case studies gives us the view from ground level. As well as tales of environmental hope, there are also messages about the limits of duty of care, the need to share the costs of achieving society’s expectations, and the possibility of learning from unlikely places. "--Provided by publisher.

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Ten commitments

"In Ten Commitments, leading environmental thinkers in Australia have written provocative chapters on environmental issues facing the country. It is organised into three sections: by ecosystem (deserts, rangelands), by sector (fisheries, forestry); and cross-sector and cross-ecosystem themes. Each chapter addresses the question: What are the 10 key things that must be urgently addressed to improve Australia’s environment? Readily accessible using straightforward language, this is a must-read for anyone interested in the environment."--Provided by publisher.

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Economically important sharks & rays of Indonesia

by W.T. White and others.

“This bilingual, full-colour identification guide is the result of a joint collaborative project between Indonesia and Australia and is an essential reference for all shark and ray scientists, fisheries officers, fishers, consumers and enthusiasts.

The first of its kind for Indonesia, this guide contains everything you need to know about recognizing and identifying the sharks, rays and chimaeras that are caught and marketed in Indonesia.” – book jacket.

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A guide to the freshwater wetland birds of Mackay and Whitsunday district

by Maureen Cooper


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Freshwater Stocking in Queensland

by Aimee Moore.

The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of all historic and current knowledge of freshwater fish stocking activities in Queensland. It identifies previous and current management measures, policies governing stocking activities, issues to be addressed and knowledge gaps. This document will be used as a basis for an Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) assessment to determine the impacts of freshwater fish stocking and allow more informed management decisions by DPI&F.


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Economic aspects of adaptation to climate change

edited by Shardul Agrawala and Samuel Fankhauser.

This report provides a critical assessment of adaptation costs and benefits in key climate sensitive sectors, as well as at national and global levels. It also moves the discussion beyond cost estimation to the potential and limits of economic and policy instruments - including insurance and risk sharing, environmental markets and pricing, and public private partnerships - that can be used to motivate adaptation actions.

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Hidden Queensland

Edited by Julianne Schultz

Queensland is the new centre of political gravity in Australia. Twenty years ago it was a repressive and corrupt place out of step with the rest of the nation. Hidden Queensland explores the most remarkable transition in Australian political history: in the people, the politics and the policies - and also exposes the lingering impact of secrets. The election of Kevin Rudd as prime minister signalled a momentous change in Australia - political power moved north for the first time. As he said, ’You can take the boy out of Nambour, but you can’t take Nambour out of the boy.’ This edition explains how this happened and what it means for Australia.

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Water Management

Issued by the Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism.

This handbook provides guidance on the processes required to identify the risks (both technical and management) relevant to a particular mining operation, how these might be mitigated, and how this can be supported by the necessary monitoring and audit systems that provide confidence in reporting of activities and outcomes.


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Cyanide Management

Issued by the Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism.

This handbook addresses cyanide management from a sustainable development perspective and updates the principles and procedures of cyanide use outlined in the Best Practice Environmental Management Cyanide Management booklet (Environment Australia,2003). It also relates to sustainable development issues as discussed in the Mineral Council of Australia's Enduring Value (MCA2004).. - Introduction

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The New Taxonomy

Edited by Quentin D. Wheeler.

"The book examines the efforts of several international groups to catalog the world's biodiversity and make it accessible. An answer to Julian Huxley's "The New Sytematics", the book signals the beginning of an upward trajectory of taxonomy to meet the unprecedented challenges of the biodiversity crisis" - Cover


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Water quality of the Great Barrier Reef

by Glenn De’ath and Katharina Fabricius.

This report to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority provides technical background information and statistical data analysis for defining improved water quality guidelines trigger values for the Breat Barrier Reef Water Quality Guidelines. - Executive summary.


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Land for Wildlife Queensland

Issued by Land for Wildlife.

"This publication celebrates the people and achievements of Land for Wildlife and other more formal covenants. It demonstrates a great diversity both in the properties involved and of those who participate.

Land for Wildlife is about people as much as habitat." - Forward


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The limits to travel

by David Metz

[This book]examines the inadequacies inherent in the current thinking [about travel], along with the resulting problems, such as pollution, congestion and noise. He highlights the impact of the rapid increase in car use in China and India, and explores the general travel experinece, public vs private transport, and transport technology. In considering to what extent travel could be avoided, he arrives at a new paradigm to underpin sustainable transport policies..."- back cover

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Undersea jewels : a colour guide to nudibranchs

by Gary Cobb and Richard C. Willan.

"This book is essentially the result of study of sea slugs conducted by Gary Cobb from March 2003 to May 2006 on the coast of Southern Queensland in the area popularly known as the Sunshine Coast...
This coastline comprises a multitude of intertidal and subtidal marine habitats, with a prevalence of open sandflats, boulder fields and deep kelp-covered rocky reefs...Coral reefs are not well represented, but there are coral formations on offshore reefs such as Flinder Reef. All these habitats support assemblages of nudibranchs." - publisher's blurb.


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Kyoto2 : how to manage the global greenhouse

by Oliver Tickell.
"In Kyoto2, Oliver Tickell presents us with a strikingly original solution. The funds generated from a system of finite production rights for greenhouse gases, which would be traded on a global auction, could be poured back into healing the wounds inflicted by climate change. In his combination of idealism wit realistic proposals based on sound economics. Tickell exposes the flaws in current approaches and envisions a fairer and more effective system." - book cover.


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The Future of Management

by Gary Hamel with Bill Breen.

"In the Future of Management, Gary Hamel argues that organizations need bold management innovation now more than ever. The current management model - centred on control and efficiency - no longer suffices in a world where adaptability and creativity drive business success.
In his most provocative book to date, Hamel takes aim at the legacy beliefs preventing twenty-first-century companies from surmounting new challenges." - book jacket.


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Common wealth : economics for a crowded planet

by Jeffrey Sachs.

The book addresses the great, and interconnected, global challenges of the twenty-first century.
The author argues that our task is to achieve truly sustainable development by finding a global course which enables the world to benefit from the spread of prosperity while ensuring that we don't destroy the eco-systems which keep us alive and our place in nature which helps sustain our values.He shows that there are different ways of managing the world's technologies, resources and politics from those currently being followed ...book cover


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Designing interpretive signs

by Gianna Moscardo, Roy Ballantyne, and Karen Hughes

"This guide provides a series of principles for effective sign design, with instruction based on research, the latest in educational and psychological theory, real-world examples, and practical guidelines. Designing Interpretive Signs includes information about choosing sign location, attracting and keeping visitors’ attention, organizing information so that visitors can easily follow it, and generally improving signs for a range of uses."--BOOK JACKET.

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A guide to writing and editing for EPA's strategy and policy writers

"This guide oultines principles for developing text and applying written style, as well as editorial practices specific to the EPA.

The reference sources listed provide more detailed guidance on sentence construction, content development, style, punctuation and spelling." - Preface


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Draft Byfield area management plan 2008

Issued by the Environmental Protection Agency

This draft management plan provides the Queensland Government’s proposed framework for the coordinated management of Byfield National Park, Byfield Conservation Park, Byfield State Forest (areas managed by EPA), Reserve for Departmental and Official Purposes, Stockyard Point, Corio Bay and Beaches adjacent to these lands.

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The mammals of Australia

Edited by Steve Van Dyck and Ronald Strahan
This is an account of every species of native mammal known to have existed in Australia since European settlement. This third edition includes an additional 91 species accounts – including for the first time, all the whales and dolphins that occur in Australian territorial waters – along with more than 200 new photographs.


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Removing asbestos cement

Produced by Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union.

This DVD explains the occupational health, safety and legal requirements for asbestos removal and has been produced in a form suitable for the training of workers involved in asbestos removal


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Our lives on the line

Produced by Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union.

This DVD documents the correct procedures for removing asbestos. It is a vital addition to occupational health and safety induction for asbestos removal contractors. It is also a valuable guide for clients and builders who need to have asbestos removed.


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Results Without Authority

by Tom Kendrick

"This book delivers proven techniques for controlling projects and managing diverse teams in wide variety of situations, and bringing those projects to successful closure. The concepts in this book are essential for all project managers, with and without authority, because they offer a productive alternative to "command and control" management techniques." - book cover


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Coal-biomass Cofiring Handbook

edited by Behdad Moghtaderi and James Ness

"The drivers for cofiring coal and biomass are a net reduction in harmful emissions, a higher thermal efficiency compared with purpose-built biomass-fired power plants and a low capital investment route to achieve these outcomes. In Australia the Mandatory Renewable Energy Target )MRET) provides added incentive for adoption through recognition of biomass cofiring as a accredited method of reducing greenhouse gases. -- Foreword


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Australian Policy Handbook

by Catherine Althaus

"The authors systematically explain the relationships between political decision-makers, public service advisers, other community participants, and those charged with implementing the programs that result. The Australian Policy Handbook is a unique contribution to improving public policy.The fourth edition of this widely used text is fully updated, and includes new material on evidence-based policy making, deliberative democracy and consultation processes, the media, community engagement and networks." - Publisher


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Australia's State of the Forests Report 2008

issued by Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

"This is the third five year report on Australia's forests. It presents data obtained from a wide range of sources, including the public and private sectors."


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Climate Change: what you can do about it

by Paul n. Holper

"Climate change, brought on by global warming, is the most vital issue on the planet. It will profoundly affect our lives, the lives of our children and our children’s children. This book tells you everything you need to know about the causes and mechanisms of climate change and global warming and, vitally, what YOU can do about it as an individual."--Publisher


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Defining Boundaries

prepared by Cultural Heritage Branch, Queensland Environmental Protection Agency

The subtitle of this publication is "a guide to determining boundaries for places entered in the Queensland Heritage Register" and it provides the user with a framework to identify and assess significance at state and local levels.


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From Gillies to Gateway

by Des Simmonds

This is a history of the surveying sector within the Queensland Main Roads Department during years 1920-1988. While it is a history of the development of the survey organisation it also portrays the lives of the surveyors, the work they performed and the conditions under which they worked.


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The ecological footprint of consumption in Queensland

prepared by Thomas Weidmann...[et al.]

"The aim of the proposed project was to carry out the necessary calculations for determining the Ecological Footprint in Queensland and to present the findings in a clear and concise format, such that they can be directly incorporated into the SoE Report."


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The sustainable enterprise fieldbook

Edited by Jeana Wirtenberg with William G. Russell and David Lipsky in collaboration with The Enterprise Sustainability Action Team

"This book aims to teach and guide leaders, managers, practitioners, students, and professors in every sector of society, and in every industry, in creating a successful and sustainable enterprise." - book cover


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Garnaut Climate Change Review :Draft report

The Draft Report describes the methodology that the Review is applying to evaluation of the costs and benefits of climate change mitigation; to the application of the science of climate change to Australia; to the international context of Australian mitigation, and to Australian mitigation policy.


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The Difference Makers

Sandra Waddock

"The Difference Makers" is a history and detailed analysis of how corporate responsibility has emerged as a key political, social, and business issue, why it has evolved so quickly, and what the visions of its thought leaders are for the future. It will be essential reading for academics, business people, and all those who are interested in the future of the corporation" - book jacket.


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A Reef in Time

by V.E.N. Veron

"[This] is...a solid contribution to reef science, accessible by a broad audience, and important in its focus. Veron has combined his extensive personal experience with the refereed literature to make a number of compelling arguments on the future of the Great Barrier Reef, and reefs worldwide, in the face of global climate change. Veron expertly places the data, observations, and predictions in perspective and his synthesis goes beyond any previous work." - book jacket


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The Indexing Companion

by Glenda Browne and Jon Jermey

"Indexing is a crucial activity, but it is inconspicuous. Indexes are systematic guides that help people find information in a document, or documents in a collection. Although most people use them frequently, hardly anyone thinks of the creative activity that went into their making.....
[This book]covers the basic principles of indexing, examines controversial areas and speculates on future directions.

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Cities on the Edge

Editor, Julianne Schultz

"For the first time in history most people in the world now live in cities. This is an enormous change of profound importance. The sheer pressure of numbers will test the old adage, that cities are the heart of civilization. Many already teeter on the brink of chaos.
Climate change is the great new challenge confronting cities and the billions of people who live in them. ... Making cities more liveable, more sustainable ond more fun is one of the great new global tasks."

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Mater Misericordiae

by Cheryl Camp and Gretta McCourt

"Cheryl Camp has provided a meticulous and detailed recording of events, times and places that capture the essence of the unfolding story of, energy, determination, courage and self-sacrifice that forever imprints the Mater story in the psyche of the City of Townsville and its neighbouring regions. The current Mater Archivist, Gretta McCourt, was a leading lady in much of the Mater story and contributed a great deal to the research behind the compilation of the history." - foreward

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Living in a dynamic tropical forest landscape

Edited by Nigel E. Stork and Stephen M. Turton

This book is "a compendium of current knowledge of the..."Wet Tropics" landscapes of Northeast Australia...The book is presented in six sections with summaries by international luminaries who have placed the chapters in a global context. Social, cultural and economic dimensions are discussed, providing a holistic view of tropical landscape environments...[T]his book will be of great interest to a wide range of readers including...policy makers and natural resource managers."

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Behavioural economics and public policy

Productivity Commission

Proceedings of the Roundtable convened by the Productivity Commission on the policy implications of behvioural economics.


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