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Listen-our land is crying : Australia's environment: problems and solutions / Mary E. White.

Title: Listen-our land is crying : Australia's environment: problems and solutions / Mary E. White.
Author: White, M. E. (Mary E.)
Publication: Kenthurst, N.S.W. : Kangaroo Press, 1997.

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296 p. : col. ill., col. maps; 30 cm.

Summary

Australia has extremely serious problems of land and water degradation. Our land is crying out for help. In order to understand the problems and to find long-term solutions, we need to see the big picture.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-290) and indexes.

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Contents

Introduction: Water, land and life -- 1. Australia's climate, global and local -- 2. Australia's geological history -- 3. Biodiversity -- 4. Soil -- a non-renewable resource in serious trouble -- 5. Salt and the salinisation of soil and water -- 6. The Murray-Darling Basin and river system -- 7. The Riverine Plain of the Murray Basin in New South Wales -- 8. Australia's grasslands -- 9. The five focal catchments of the National Dryland Salinity Program -- 10. Out of control -- 11. The tropical north -- 12. The arid rangelands -- 13. Mining and the environment -- 14. Forests and wilderness -- 15. Coastal and marine environments and the eastern green crescent -- Epilogue.

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0864178441 :

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