Improving Fox Management Strategies in Australia

By Glen Saunders and Lynette McLeod

A comprehensive review of fox management strategies, impacts and monitoring techniques including a critical appraisal of past research studies. Key recommendations are included to enable research agencies, land managers and policy-makers to improve approaches to measure and manage fox impacts.

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Managing Bird Damage to Fruit and Other Horticultural Crops

By John Tracey et. al.

This book advocates a more strategic approach to bird management, including use of better techniques to reduce damage and increase cooperation between neighbours. The focus is on pest bird impacts on horticulture. However, the issues are of relevance to pest bird management in general.

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Climate Change and the Great Barrier Reef: A Vulnerability Assessment

Edited by Johanna E Johnson and Paul A Marshall

A valuable tool for marine managers, policy makers and anyone interested in the future of coral reef ecosystems. Commissioned by GBRMPA, this “assessment identifies specific strategies for reducing the vulnerability of … sensitive species and habitats” to the effects of climate change.

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Design for Water: Rainwater Harvesting, Stormwater Catchment and Alternate Water Reuse

By Heather Kinkade-Levario

An accessible guide focusing on alternate water collection, including a focus on rainwater harvesting in the urban environment.

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Cool it, the Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming

By Bjorn Lomborg

Bjorn Lombok argues that panic about global warming is not constructive and that we should focus our resources on more immediate concerns, such as HIV/AIDS and ensuring a clean water supply.

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