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- Library Collection RecordIt is argued that current policy settings in relation to land administration, drought, taxation and other financial measures (e.g. Farm Management Deposits) do not provide an adequate framework for…Publication Date 2004
- Taxation policies
- Library Collection RecordIn 2001 I diversified our agricultural operation to include livestock production. We are based on the flood plains of the Darling River in the Bourke district of Western NSW. Unfortunately, or…Publication Date 2004
- diversification
- drought
- Library Collection RecordLand policy and legislation have been the major factors driving fragmentation of Australian rangelands. At the regional scale, fragmentation of rangelands has facilitated the development of private…Publication Date 2004
- Land Policies
- pastoralism
- Library Collection RecordThe IPCC Third Assessment Report confirms that the evidence for global climate change is now stronger than ever. While efforts to minimise climate change are critical, some degree of change is…Publication Date 2004
- sustainable agriculture
- analysis
- Library Collection RecordThe paper describes lessons learnt from historical degradation episodes in Australia's rangelands. We have recently reviewed eight well -documented episodes and the processes that led to…Publication Date 2004
- drought
- El Nino
- Library Collection RecordThe future of outback Australia depends on the creation of new regional economic development opportunities. We argue that these are likely to be based on a new approach to valuing our current or…Publication Date 2004
- economics
- collaboration
- Library Collection RecordRecently there has been a great deal of interest in applying the concept of resilience to pastoral systems and to development programs in pastoral systems. This paper addresses pastoralism and its…Publication Date 2014
- food security
- climate
- Library Collection RecordIn Queensland, Grazing Land Management packages are becoming widely adopted as a tool for assessing land condition, and the relative "health" of country. Within these packages, land…Publication Date 2004
- health
- tools
- biodiversity
- Library Collection RecordAustralia has experienced the highest recorded rate of recent mammal extinctions and range declines, and losses from the arid zone have been significant (Morton 1990). The Burrowing Bettong (…Publication Date 2004
- extinction
- landscape heterogeneity
- Library Collection RecordThere is increasing impetus for the maintenance of biodiversity values throughout Australia's rangelands. This necessitates an improved understanding of the effects of grazing management on…Publication Date 2004
- grazing management
- assessment
- Library Collection RecordCafeAnimal is a spatially explicit, rule -based simulation program for modelling the population dynamics of territorial vertebrates. Model features include territories with floating boundaries; the…Publication Date 2004
- simulation models
- grazing systems
- Library Collection RecordOff-reserve conservation in the southern rangelands of Western Australia (WA) is gaining momentumat the enterprise level through the participatory Ecosystem Management Understanding (EMU) process.…Publication Date 2004
- indigenous peoples
- mining
- pastoralism
- Library Collection RecordThe Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands cover 10.7 million hectares, approximately 118th of the state of South Australia, in its remote and arid northwestern corner. A population of 2000 - 3000 anangu (…Publication Date 2004
- indigenous peoples
- land management
- Library Collection RecordLand management offers real opportunities for Indigenous employment in the rangelands. The provision of education and training programs to meet land management objectives is a challenge forboth…Publication Date 2004
- employment
- indigenous peoples
- Library Collection RecordCSIRO's interest in research partnerships with Indigenous organisations is part of its overall concern with research approaches that benefit both the public good and private stakeholders. CSIRO…Publication Date 2004
- biodiversity
- cultural values
- Library Collection RecordThe Indigenous Pastoral Project (IPP) was developed during 2003 to improve land management and pastoral outcomes for Aboriginal people in the rangeland regions of the Top End of the Northern…Publication Date 2004
- land management
- multiple land use
- Library Collection RecordAlthough small businesses are the lifeblood of desert Australia, there is a lack of readily accessible information on the success factors and special needs of these enterprises. A pilot project `…Publication Date 2004
- Business Management
- Aboriginal communities
- Library Collection RecordSustainability is clearly the guiding principle of Natural Resource Management in Australia. All the regions in Australia require a Natural Resource Management (NRM) Strategy which sets targets and…Publication Date 2004
- biodiversity
- pastoralism
- Library Collection RecordBestprac is a group based benchmarking and continuous improvement program funded by Australian Wool Innovation and Meat and Livestock Australia. The Bestprac network started in 1998 and aims to…Publication Date 2004
- tools
- Management information systems
- Queensland
- New South Wales
- South Australia
- Western Australia
- Library Collection RecordChange is going on in everyone's life. While some change is forced on us, most occurs because we decide to make a change to achieve a different outcome. During the Sustainable Grazing Systems (…Publication Date 2004
- tools
- sustainability
- Library Collection RecordAdvances in information and communication technologies (ICT) are increasingly enabling improvement in public and private service deliveries to communities. Various types of communities (communities…Publication Date 2004
- communication technology
- planning
- Library Collection RecordIn order for outback Australia to sustain itself, a balance has to be struck between seemingly incompatible demands: economic, social, ecological. These demands can act as barriers, polarizing…Publication Date 2004
- economics
- social aspects
- Ecological Factors
- Library Collection RecordAs the impacts of grazing on the rangeland environment are increasingly being scrutinised by the wider community, the central Australian beef industry has an opportunity to review current management…Publication Date 2004
- Impact assessment
- Meat industry
- Library Collection RecordFor decades pastoralists and researchers have been trying to find better ways of matching stock numbers to rangeland conditions, where rainfall and grass production are more variable and less…Publication Date 2004
- models
- arid zones
- cattle
- Library Collection RecordSustainable management of natural resources and development in agricultural productivity through community driven projects has been the highlight of the implementation of the Rangeland Management…Publication Date 2004
- sustainable land management
- productivity
- Library Collection RecordThe aim of the Australian Government's National Landcare Program (NLP) is to increase involvement by industry, farmers and the wider community in landcare and other natural resource management (…Publication Date 2004
- sustainable agriculture
- rural areas
- urban areas
- Library Collection RecordPastoral managers who over-estimate the chance of good rainfall are likely to carry too many livestock and retain them too long into a dry period. By having an overly optimistic, rather than…Publication Date 2004
- pastoralism
- Arid climate
- Library Collection RecordThe main objective of this project was to observe short-term changes in the regeneration of trees, shrubs and herbage species after fires of different intensities on pastoral land near Alice Springs…Publication Date 2004
- ground cover plants
- trees
- shrubs
- Library Collection RecordThis paper outlines the aims and early findings of a project exploring Environmental ManagementSystems (EMS) in the Central Australian beef industry. This project is one of 15 funded under the…Publication Date 2004
- cattle
- efficiency
- Library Collection RecordAustralia's rangelands have a history of degradation. This legacy arises from inappropriate management strategies and a poor understanding of rangeland ecosystem interaction and the patterns and…Publication Date 2004
- degradation
- Catchment areas
- Library Collection RecordAlthough many pastoralists use the Department of Land Information's (DLI) Satellite Remote Sensing Services (SRSS) website (http : / /www.dli.wa.ciov.au/ corporate .nsf /web /Fire +Hotspots) to…Publication Date 2004
- satellite imagery
- pastoralism
- Library Collection RecordCalotrope (Calotropis procera), also known as `rubber bush', is an exotic weed from Africa and Asia which has invaded tropical and sub tropical rangelands in northern Australia. The plant is a…Publication Date 2004
- exotic species
- Calotrope
- Library Collection RecordThe Australian climate is one of the most variable in the world. Better understanding of this variability, and how to use seasonal climate forecasts, is essential for maintaining profitable rural…Publication Date 2004
- sustainability
- climate variability
- Library Collection RecordGraziers in Queensland (Qld) currently have a range of decision -support information available to them on current and forecasted seasonal conditions. This includes spatial mapping information down to…Publication Date 2004
- tools
- Spatial modeling
- Library Collection RecordSimilar surveys were conducted in western Queensland in 2000 and 2003 to compare graziers' knowledge and use of climate information and seasonal climate forecasting. There was a decline…Publication Date 2004
- surveys
- climate information
- Library Collection RecordEDGEnetwork is the education arm of Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA). EDGE currently provides a number of courses and workshops for people in the pastoral industry. EDGE now provide courses…Publication Date 2004
- worskshops
- Pastoral Industry
- Library Collection RecordHeteropogon contortus (black speargrass) dominant pastures occupy 25 M ha and occur on a wide variety of soil types which receive between 700 and 1200 mm annual rainfall. They are an important forage…Publication Date 2004
- beef cattle
- grazing studies
- Library Collection RecordDrought is an ever-present problem for sustainable grazing enterprises in the semi-arid and arid zones of Australia. Little is known of the long-term responses of pastures to drought although some…Publication Date 2004
- drought
- sustainability
- Library Collection RecordCurrent recommended strategies to cope with climate variability are not widely adopted, due partly to the perception that sustainable strategies are uneconomic. In this paper we provide preliminary…Publication Date 2004
- light stocking
- grazing enterprises
- Library Collection RecordBeef producers of the Burdekin rangelands, the speargrass country of the Burnett region, the Mitchell grass country of Western Queensland, and the Victoria River District of the Northern Territory…Publication Date 2004
- beef cattle
- black speargrass
- Library Collection RecordIn arid and semi -arid pastoral areas, if permanent damage to rangelands in the form of accelerated erosion and pasture degradation is to be avoided early in drought periods, it is necessary to…Publication Date 1981
- Library Collection RecordLand degradation in the mulga lands of far south -west Queensland is discussed in relation to the extended drought periods which occur in this area. The use of drought relief measures to provide…Publication Date 1981
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordIn the last two decades hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent by Governments in Australia .on drought relief schemes. In some cases the droughts were simply periods of below average…Publication Date 1981
- Library Collection RecordA comparison in western Queensland of pasture yields and stocking rates indicate that the latter are similar on mulga (Acacia aneura) rangelands to those on the Mitchell grass (Astrebla spp.)…Publication Date 1981
- Library Collection RecordAn experiment to assess the relative importance of rabbits and larger native or feral animals (mainly goats) on the vegetation of the Gammon Ranges National Park is described. The experiment consists…Publication Date 1981
- Library Collection RecordAbstract—Conservation biologists, NGOs, and the USFWS have established a goal of returning a viable population of jaguars into the United States. The source population for this recovery will come…Publication Date 2013
- jaguars
- Arizona
- wildlife management
- population dynamics
- Library Collection RecordThis paper reviews the application of computer models to management in the rangelands. Several models are now available and these have application at the station level for decisions that are…Publication Date 1990
- Australia
- Library Collection Recordthree hypothetical Kimberley cattle herds representing Shorthorn and Brahman cross genotypes were studied to compare potential earning capacities and income variability from different herd structures…Publication Date 1990
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThis paper details an extension initiative implemented by NSW Agriculture & Fisheries staff at Cobar in western New South Wales. With the co- operation of seven local producers a discussion group…Publication Date 1990
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordPalatable shrubs are necessary to ensure continuity of wool production during drought conditions at high stocking rates. Measurements were made of herbage mass, foliage mass of shrubs, bodyweight and…Publication Date 1990
- Australia