Australia's biodiversity and climate change (book review)

View/ Open
Author(s)
Buckley, Ralf
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2010
Metadata
Show full item recordAbstract
This book is a solid summary of the current situation, by the Australian Government's Expert Advisory Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change. It includes lots of good information, is logically assembled and well presented. The book is published by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the Australian Government and has a ‘CSIRO report’ style, covering the bases broadly rather than homing in or hammering home a single point. It assembles research from a range of sources, but it is not in itself a research publication. It will be a useful reference for natural resource management ...
View more >This book is a solid summary of the current situation, by the Australian Government's Expert Advisory Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change. It includes lots of good information, is logically assembled and well presented. The book is published by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the Australian Government and has a ‘CSIRO report’ style, covering the bases broadly rather than homing in or hammering home a single point. It assembles research from a range of sources, but it is not in itself a research publication. It will be a useful reference for natural resource management coordinators, but it is too detailed to be read by practising politicians. It will be useful in teaching, though the introductory chapters should already be familiar to most biology students.
View less >
View more >This book is a solid summary of the current situation, by the Australian Government's Expert Advisory Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change. It includes lots of good information, is logically assembled and well presented. The book is published by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the Australian Government and has a ‘CSIRO report’ style, covering the bases broadly rather than homing in or hammering home a single point. It assembles research from a range of sources, but it is not in itself a research publication. It will be a useful reference for natural resource management coordinators, but it is too detailed to be read by practising politicians. It will be useful in teaching, though the introductory chapters should already be familiar to most biology students.
View less >
Journal Title
Austral Ecology
Volume
35
Issue
6
Copyright Statement
Author Posting. Copyright 2010. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Austral Ecology, Volume 35, Issue 6, page 712, September 2010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-9993.2010.02166.x
Subject
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Environmental Sciences
Biological Sciences