Author(s): CSIRO Australia Staff (Editor)

Environment, Climate, Ecology - Australian

This volume, comprising a report to the Commonwealth Minister for the Environment, is an independent nation-wide assessment of the status of Australia's environment. It provides a scientific assessment of environmental conditions, focusing on the impacts of human activities, their significance for the environment and societal responses to the identified trends. The issues addressed in the report should assist in the integrated management of our natural resources in a manner which is ecologically sustainable.