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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