State of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area
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Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Conservation of natural resources |
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Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Conservation of natural resources |
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Author | : David Wachenfeld |
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Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Science |
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Author | : Pat Hutchings |
Publisher | : CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2008-11-07 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0643099972 |
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is 344 400 square kilometres in size and is home to one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world. This comprehensive guide describes the organisms and ecosystems of the Great Barrier Reef, as well as the biological, chemical and physical processes that influence them. Contemporary pressing issues such as climate change, coral bleaching, coral disease and the challenges of coral reef fisheries are also discussed. In addition,the book includes a field guide that will help people to identify the common animals and plants on the reef, then to delve into the book to learn more about the roles the biota play. Beautifully illustrated and with contributions from 33 international experts, The Great Barrier Reef is a must-read for the interested reef tourist, student, researcher and environmental manager. While it has an Australian focus, it can equally be used as a baseline text for most Indo-Pacific coral reefs. Winner of a Whitley Certificate of Commendation for 2009.
Author | : David Raymond Wachenfeld |
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Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Conservation of natural resources |
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Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) |
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This 2014 State Party Report is a progress report outlining Australia's substantial progress in implementing key requests made by the World Heritage Committee (Decisions 35 COM 7B.10, 36 COM 7B.8 and 37 COM 7B.10) and recommendations of the Mission Report, Reactive Monitoring Mission to the Great Barrier Reef (Australia) 6th to 14th March 2012). This 2014 report builds on the extensive information already provided in the 2012 and 2013 State Party reports. Australia will continue to keep the World Heritage Committee informed of progress and will provide a further State Party Report by 1 February 2015.
Author | : James Bowen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 746 |
Release | : 2011-02-17 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9781139440646 |
One of the world's natural wonders, the Great Barrier Reef stretches more than 2000 kilometres in a maze of coral reefs and islands along Australia's north-eastern coastline. Now unfolding the fascinating story behind its mystique this 2002 book provides for the first time a comprehensive cultural and ecological history of European impact, from early voyages of discovery to developments in Reef science and management. Incisive and a delight to read in its thorough account of the scientific, social and environmental consequences of European impact on the world's greatest coral reef system, this extraordinary book is sure to become a classic.
Author | : James Bowen |
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Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2004-12-20 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0511055889 |
This 2002 book provides a cultural and ecological history of European impact on the Great Barrier Reef.
Author | : Ben Daley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2014-07-17 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 113593441X |
The Great Barrier Reef is located along the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia and is the world's largest coral reef ecosystem. Designated a World Heritage Area, it has been subject to increasing pressures from tourism, fishing, pollution and climate change, and is now protected as a marine park. This book provides an original account of the environmental history of the Great Barrier Reef, based on extensive archival and oral history research. It documents and explains the main human impacts on the Great Barrier Reef since European settlement in the region, focusing particularly on the century from 1860 to 1960 which has not previously been fully documented, yet which was a period of unprecedented exploitation of the ecosystem and its resources. The book describes the main changes in coral reefs, islands and marine wildlife that resulted from those impacts. In more recent decades, human impacts on the Great Barrier Reef have spread, accelerated and intensified, with implications for current management and conservation practices. There is now better scientific understanding of the threats faced by the ecosystem. Yet these modern challenges occur against a background of historical levels of exploitation that is little-known, and that has reduced the ecosystem's resilience. The author provides a compelling narrative of how one of the world's most iconic and vulnerable ecosystems has been exploited and degraded, but also how some early conservation practices emerged.
Author | : Australia. Department of the Environment |
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Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) |
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Total Pages | : 61 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) |
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