Rural Land Use Change Conference 2002 - Proceedings
Drivers of Land Use Change | Driver Research | Conference 2002
Rural Land Use Change – YES! – But will biodiversity be okay?
| The ‘Rural Land Use Change - YES! - But will biodiversity be OK?’ conference was held in August 2002 in Melbourne. The conference was organised early in the life of the Drivers of Land Use Change project in order to bring together people working in the areas of biodiversity conservation, agricultural land uses, land use change, the drivers of change, and policy solutions. It served as an effective catalyst for the project. Speeches to the conference and independently refereed papers have been published in a proceedings document to serve as a guide for people from many walks of life who are interested in seeing our natural heritage improved for future generations. A CD ROM of the proceedings is available from Andrew Straker - andrew.straker@dse.vic.gov.au. Introduction  Rural Land Use Change - Introduction (PDF - 709 KB) |  |
1. Situation report – perspectives on biodiversity maintenance
The biodiversity that we want to maintain: the government perspective. (PDF - 60 KB) The biodiversity we want to maintain and the reasons we want to maintain it. (PDF - 67 KB) Biodiversity maintenance in agricultural landscapes: a spectrum of views and understandings. (PDF - 124 KB)2. Land use change and its drivers
Part A.
Victorian agriculture 1904–2000: land use change or transition? (PDF - 397 KB) Small and lifestyle farms: has the horse bolted for biodiversity gains? (PDF - 91 KB) Raised-bed and controlled traffic cropping. (PDF - 17 KB) Landscape analysis of raised bed cropping potential and biodiversity values in south-western Victoria: defining priority areas for action. (PDF - 1.5 MB)Part B.
Effects of recent changes in grazing and fertilizer management on species richness of native ground-layer vegetation on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales. (PDF - 80 KB) Landscape analysis of raised bed cropping potential and biodiversity values in south-western Victoria: defining priority areas for action. (PDF - 1.5 MB) Trying to understand ‘why’ people change land use. (PDF - 177 KB)3. What future for agriculture and biodiversity?
Challenges for Victoria’s food and agriculture sector and biodiversity - 2020. (PDF - 45 KB) From vision to delivery: Australia’s biodiversity conservation objectives. (PDF - 57 KB) Biodiversity opportunities in Australian agriculture: a national view. (PDF - 60 KB) Towards a policy program for the conservation of native biodiversity in rural Victoria: defining the problem, expanding the toolkit, and engaging the community. (PDF - 97 KB) Using spatial modelling to plan for the conservation of biodiversity within the Goulburn-Broken Catchment, Victoria. (PDF - 331 KB)4. Policies, institutions and planning
Selecting policy mechanisms for biodiversity conservation on private land. (PDF - 56 KB) Current ideas on ways to get long-term involvement in biodiversity maintenance. (PDF - 89 KB) Conserving biodiversity: the importance of institutional structure. (PDF - 168 KB) Protecting biodiversity: property rights and the duty of care. (PDF - 87 KB) Subdivision as an intermediate-scale planning process for combining agricultural and biodiversity outcomes. (PDF - 292 KB) The Victorian Statutory Planning System: working for or against biodiversity? (PDF - 44 KB) The Land use planning system: potential and problems for biodiversity. (PDF - 56 KB) Regional Catchment Strategies and biodiversity enhancement: the East Gippsland experience. (PDF - 56 KB)5. Capitalising on indigenous biodiversity
Land use in catchments: exploring new patterns for fairness and efficiency. (PDF - 52 KB) Native grasses: an example of using on-farm biodiversity. (PDF - 198 KB) The value of remnants on farms for invertebrate biodiversity: a preliminary study. (PDF - 134 KB)6. Industry initiatives
Environmental management systems in the viticulture industry. (PDF - 127 KB) Using environmental management systems for maintaining native vegetation and biodiversity in rural landscapes. (PDF - 104 KB)7. Achieving landscape change
Landscape change: drivers and opportunities. (PDF - 25 KB) Conserving biodiversity through land use change: some principles and directions for Victoria. (PDF - 21 KB) Accelerating landscape change on the slopes and grazing country. (PDF - 148 KB)Please note: Document(s) on this page are presented in PDF format. If you do not have the Adobe Reader, you can download a copy free from the Adobe website.
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