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    Preventing illegal fishing
    (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025-02-11) ; ;

    Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is the term given to particular kinds of fishing activity that in some way contravene national or international laws (DAFF, 2019). This activity has numerous environmental impacts, such as depleting fish stocks (especially of vulnerable species) and causing damage to ecosystems. It also impacts both socially and economically, such as through disrupting the livelihood of lawful fishers, removing a source of protein for those who rely on fish for consumption, and diminishing amenity and activity for tourism and recreation. Left unchecked, IUU fishing can create irreversible harms. IUU is largely concealed, with illegal catches easily intermingled with lawful catches, making prevention, detection and thus penalisation difficult. Nevertheless, various laws, treaties and monitoring programmes combined with technological and other surveillance tactics seek to offer some level of traceability and deterrence.

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    Agriculture
    (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025-02-18) ; ;

    Whilst farming practices (as opposed to hunting and gathering) have existed for eons, by the twentieth century these had evolved in many parts of the world into large-scale commercial enterprises. Contemporary practices incorporate crop and animal specialisation, uniform monocultures, mechanisation of labour, consolidation of farms and market concentration, the application of chemical inputs, and the use of genetically modified crops. Evolving cultural values and political sensibilities mean that modern agriculture is fraught with conflict, with animal welfare and climate change being most prominent. Agriculture broadly and farmers individually can be pre-eminent in environmental harm and crime. Farmers are also victims of the effects of climate change and in some instances are at the forefront of conservation efforts.

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    Illegal hunting and shooting
    (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025-02-18)
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    Illegal hunting/shooting (and poaching) involves the illegal killing or taking of wildlife. It is a phenomenon which, amongst an array of impacts, has driven some species towards extinction, and can take many forms depending on its location and target. This entry provides a definition of illegal hunting/shooting, placing it within the wider gambit of environmental crimes, and overviews the phenomenon and those involved. The notion of hunters possessing a social licence and their overall motivations are considered, along with consideration of preventive and enforcement measures. Such criminal behaviour is oftentimes difficult to detect and enforce owing to the remoteness of where the offending frequently occurs, and thus there is a lack of both formal and informal guardianship. The entry concludes with a discussion of measures used to promote legal hunting.

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    ‘Oceanic Criminology’ and Rural Access to Justice Across the Pacific
    (Bristol University Press, 2025-01-30) ;
    Watson, Danielle
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    Rural criminology scholarship as an area of concentrated study across Oceania is scattered. For work theorising and with an empirical research focus, literature from Australia dominates, although has been somewhat ad hoc with an emphasis on localised case studies as opposed to broader bodies of research. Scholarship pertaining to rurality and crime in New Zealand is yet to emerge, although there has been some work on rural policing specifically. Focused research aimed at developing understandings about rurality and crime in the South Pacific context are not yet visible in existing literature. Adopting a hybridised theoretical approach, this chapter charts the notion of ‘access to justice’ and addresses seven specific access issues throughout Oceania, assessing how access can be conceived, measured and responded to in regional, rural and remote areas. Whilst reflecting on the existing canon of relevant works, the chapter will also look to the future ‘state of the art’, nominating areas for new scholarship pertaining to access to justice across the region.

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    House of horrors: What the ABC revealed about early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Australia now
    (Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE), 2025-03-18)

    The ABC’s Four Corners television episode ‘Betrayal of Trust: Australia’s Childcare Crisis’ into the worst excesses of the troubled early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector was gruesome viewing. This article discusses the central challenges the program revealed rather than the horrific stories of abuse, injury, and neglect. Such reports are likely to scare parents with over a million families and almost 1.4 million children using Government-subsidised services.

    The ABC’s six-month investigation revealed what happens when the values and goals of education and care are misaligned with corporate agendas but are fuelled by Government policies and practices. While the program interviewed a service director within a service where the children had a chance to flourish, and the system worked well, these scenes were few and far between.

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    Vitamin D mediated Calcium and Phosphorus metabolism in cattle
    Vitamin D metabolites and the major mammalian minerals phosphorus (P) and calcium (Ca) have a complex and detailed relationship. The relationship, especially for Ca, is delicately controlled by a range of hormones and is largely dependent on the animal's physiological state. Studies have identified that Vitamin D metabolites given in supraphysiological doses to cattle can manipulate Ca and P metabolism. Furthermore, large doses of the metabolite 25-hydroxy vitamin D (25-vitD) can replace the actions of active vitamin D, 1,25-dihydroxy vitamin D (1,25-vitD) and initiate increased absorption of both Ca and P from the digestive tract in mice. These findings led to the hypothesis that 25-vitD could be used to favorably manipulate the metabolism of both Ca and P in cattle. The studies undertaken within this thesis are focused on the use of 25-vitD in both the beef and dairy industries. A group of beef breed steers were recruited and trained to halter, stand in metabolism crates and spend extended periods of time in individual pens. For studies concerning Ca, urine was the most important measurement. An increase in urinary Ca excretion demonstrated that there has been an increase in available Ca, either from the diet or skeletal reserves. With P studies faecal P excretion and plasma P were important guides to changes in P metabolism. The results of the metabolism studies undertaken in the thesis identify that Ca and P homeostasis is manipulated by 25-vitD and the majority of the increase in availability of both Ca and P originates from the diet. This is further supported by the absence of bone degradation. Thus, the inclusion of 25-vitD in a typical anionic transition diet will increase Ca absorption prior to parturition, enabling labile bone Ca stores to remain intact and available for immediate use at parturition whilst increasing the amount of Ca available to the animal from both bone and diet. Furthermore, the combination of 25-vitD and anionic salts has physiological implications that allow sufficient generation of extracellular Ca at parturition. An increase in plasma 25-vitD concentrations, to approximately 375 ng/ml, facilitated an increase in the concentration of plasma P and a reduction in faecal P, which indicates that dietary P absorption was increased.
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    Management of migratory Helicoverpa spp. moths in Australia
    (Entomological Society of Korea, 2012) ; ;
    The two major pest species of Helicoverpa in Australia are 'H. armigera' and 'H. punctigera'. Both are capable of long distance migration, but despite considerable research, uncertainty surrounds the frequency, extent and patterns of migration. 'H. armigera' has been characterised as a facultative migrant, leaving cropping areas only when conditions are unfavourable, and often overwintering there. 'H. punctigera', by contrast, has been regarded as an obligate migrant, breeding in winter on native hosts in remote areas of inland Australia and migrating to cropping areas in the south and east every spring, when these hosts senesce with the onset of hot, dry weather. These differences have been invoked to explain differences in seasonal phenology and tendencies to develop resistance to insecticides and transgenic crops. However, recent trends have cast some doubt on these assumptions. Eastern Australia, and particularly inland regions, was affected by an unprecedented drought from 2001 to 2008, and this may have changed the capacity of inland regions to support H. punctigera populations or the migratory behaviour of the pests. Similarly, extensive deployment of transgenic (Bt) cotton in the eastern cropping areas may have affected the season population dynamics of both species. Understanding medium to long term changes in the migration systems of these pests is crucial for developing forecasting techniques for the crops affected (including many grains, oilseeds and cotton), and for devising Resistance Management Plans for Bt cotton.
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    Architecture and Protocols for Inter-cell Device-to-Device Communication in 5G Networks
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2016)
    Murkaz, A
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    Chung, M Y
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    Seet, B.-C.
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    Chong, P H J
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    Shah, S T
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    Malik, S A

    The massive admiration of cellular devices has stimulated a flourishing growth of high data rate wireless services, which has sparked an insisting need for more efficient spectrum usage as well as reduced power consumption. This has given rise to Device-to-Device (D2D) communication, which offloads the relaying burden of the base station to direct links between the users. Recent studies have shown that D2D communication results in higher data rates, lower energy consumption and time delay. In this paper, the architecture and a set of protocols for enabling inter-cell D2D communication in 5G networks have been proposed. More specifically, device discovery and session setup protocols for different applications have been presented.

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    Green Power voluntary purchases: Price elasticity and policy analysis
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2011)
    Mewton, Ross
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    Green Power schemes offer electricity from renewable energy sources to customers for a higher price than ordinary electricity. This study examines the demand characteristics of Green Power in Australia and policies which could increase its sales. A sample of 250 pooled time series and cross sectional observations was used to estimate a statistically significant elasticity of demand for Green Power with respect to price of -0.96 with a 95% confidence interval of ± 68%. The wide variation in market penetration between jurisdictions and between countries for Green Power, and the low awareness of Green Power found by surveys indicate that Green Power sales could be increased by appropriate marketing and government policies. The most cost effective means to increase sales was found to be advertising campaigns although only one Australian example was found, in the state of Victoria in 2005. It was also found that full tax deductibility of the Green Power premium to residential customers, exemption from the Goods and Services Tax and a tax rebate for Green Power are all probably less cost effective for promoting sales than direct government purchase of Green Power, in terms of cost per unit of increased sales.
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    Designing Behaviourally Informed Policies for Land Stewardship: A New Paradigm
    (University of Technology Sydney ePress (UTS ePress), 2015)
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    Crofts, Roger
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    Becker, John
    This paper argues the case for a new approach to the stewardship of land resources that uses behavioural science theory to support the design and application of policies that facilitate changes in behaviour by those who develop policy and the farmers who implement it. Current approaches have: focused on legally-based expert system; and have been devised by national and international bureaucracies with little or no knowledge of how land owners and managers are motivated, and how they think, behave and operate as stewards of their natural resources. A review of current approaches from the social scientific literature is provided, with a particular focus on principles from social psychology. This is followed by an examination of how these principles can be applied to influence behaviour related to land restoration and soil conservation. Examples of the problems with traditional approaches and the evolution of new approaches with full engagement of farmers as the delivery agents are provided from within the European Union, Iceland and Scotland. In the light of these examples and emerging thinking in other parts of the world, the paper sets out the basis for a new approach based on behavioural science theory and application, reinforcing the arguments already made in the literature for a social license for farming.