Edited by Marnie McCullough and Barbara Musso
Price: 49.95; 240 pp; ISBN: 0 9581014 4 2
AT more than 240 pages, Healthy Rangelands: Principles for
Sustainable Systems, Focus on Australia’s Burdekin
Rangelands , brings together an extensive array of information
on land use, management and biophysical systems in this
Queensland catchment. The Burdekin Catchment is an important
component of the pastoral estate in the north Australian
rangelands, and one that plays a significant role in the regional
economy.
The book’s purpose is to take an integrated approach to
sustainable management based on knowledge of the various landscape
components and their complex interactions. Issues facing natural
resource managers in the catchment are both localised, such as the
long-term sustainability of the resource base for grazing and other
land uses, and external, such as the relationship between the
catchment and the neighbouring Great Barrier Reef lagoon.
Healthy Rangelands takes a carefully structured, systematic
approach to the management of the upper Burdekin rangelands,
drawing on the best available knowledge from a wide variety of
sources. Information is presented in a way that links sophisticated
scientific insight with practical management approaches, focusing
on the special features and challenges of the Burdekin catchment.
— Gordon Duff
You can order the book from this website by downloading the
order form at right. You can also order the book from the
Queensland Government Bookshop, link at right.
