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Title: | Evaluating Australian fresh waters for nature conservation | Contributor(s): | Nevill, Jon (author); Boulton, Andrew (author) | Publication Date: | 2009 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4884 | Abstract: | Australia is the driest inhabited continent, with its population of around 20 million people mostly concentrated on the well-watered eastern seaboard. Despite only 200 years of European occupation, water quality and native freshwater ecosystems have deteriorated seriously owing to over-extraction, flow regulation, pollution (especially salinization and eutrophication), urbanization and exotic pest invasion (reviews in Boulton & Brock, 1999; Schofield et al., 2000; Arthington & Pusey, 2003). Although European settlement in Australia has been largely limited to the coastal cities (and nearby regions) of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide (Figure 10.1), inland waters have also been heavily exploited and regulated. Water resource development during the nineteenth century focused on water supply and waste disposal, while in the arid inland, successful agriculture and mining often relied on isolated feats of engineering to provide a reliable water resource (Evans, 2001). In this first century of European occupation, there was limited impact upon the landscape yet considerable development of legal and institutional arrangements relating to water supply (Smith, 1998) - many of which remained in place until the early 1990s. | Publication Type: | Book Chapter | Source of Publication: | Assessing the Conservation Value of Fresh Waters: An International Perspective, p. 218-236 | Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | Place of Publication: | Cambridge, United Kingdom | ISBN: | 0521613221 9780521848855 0521848857 9780521613224 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 050104 Landscape Ecology 050102 Ecosystem Function |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 960608 Rural Water Evaluation (incl. Water Quality) | HERDC Category Description: | B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book | Publisher/associated links: | http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/31617334 http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521613224 |
Series Name: | Ecology, biodiversity, and conservation | Editor: | Editor(s): Philip J Boon and Catherine M Pringle |
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