This paper describes three very different scenarios for the future of agriculture in Australia. Each scenario has a mixture of social, economic and environmental benefits and costs. The scenarios serve to challenge preconceptions about the future and focus attention on long-term sustainability of ...
SK Redfern,N Azzu,JS Binamira - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 被引量: 64发表: 2012年 Review of rice-fish culture in Southeast Asia The methods of fish culture in Southeast Asian rice fields are reviwed with comparisons between the captural system (in which...
Queensland is a state in northeastern Australia, which is the wettest and most tropical part of the continent. The second largest of Australia’s states, Queensland occupies nearly one-fourth of the continent. The capital is Brisbane, on the state’s sou
and became extinct by the 15th century. The 18th-century Māori population was densest in the warmer northern parts of the country, where the Māori variant of Polynesianculturehad reached its high point, particularly in the arts of war, canoe construction, building, weaving, and agriculture. ...
Grassland distributions today are closely linked to human activities, herbivores, and fire, but many have been converted to urban areas, forests, or agriculture fields. Roughly 80% of fires globally occur in grasslands each year, making fire a critical process in grassland dynamics. Yet, little ...
The main industries in Australia are mining (such as coal and natural gas), industrial and transportation equipment, food processing, chemicals, and steel manufacturing. Agriculture also plays a role in the country's economy, and its main products include wheat, barley, sugarcane, fruits, cattle,...
Examination of a phytolith assemblage from the archaeological site of Carpenter's Gap 1 provides an hitherto unrecognised source of vegetation history for the tropical savannah region of north western Australia. Two predominant mechanisms contributed to the formation of the phytolith assemblage: firstly, ...
Following enthusiastic reviews of scientific lectures for women in previous decades, Nature continued with its then forward-looking attitude towards the role of women in science in a book review in 1904. Eleanor Anne Ormerod was an entomologist who applied her skills to agriculture and helped to ...
Rock painting at Ubirr inKakadu National Park. Evidence ofAboriginal artin Australia can be traced back some 30,000 years. The ancestors ofIndigenous Australiansare believed to have arrived in Australia some 40,000 to 60,000 years ago, but possibly as early as 70,000 years ago.[7][8]They...
largely because of the increasing scale of farming and the mechanization of agriculture. Tasmania thus differs from the mainland in having the smallest proportion of population in thelabour forceand the lowest growth rate of any state. A drop in birth rate in the late 20th century indeed brought...