Research and Development in the rangelands of Australia has typically been reductionist in nature, focussing on segments of what is in reality a deeply integrated system of interaction containing social and natural elements. For example, work on production and productivity has been poorly integrated with the issues of social systems (markets and marketing) and ecological sustainability, biodiversity and lately carbon storage and sequestration. The landscape’s main resource has been seen as based in agriculture, and this in turn has been driven by the issues of production and productivity. ...
Full-text publications from the Australian Rangelands Society (ARS) Biennial Conference Proceedings (1997-), Rangeland Journal (ARS/CSIRO; 1976-), plus videos and other resources about the rangelands of Australia.