The big ecological questions inhibiting effective environmental management in Australia

Austral Ecology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-9

  Morton, S R ^a   Hoegh Guldberg, O ^b   Lindenmayer, D B ^c   Olson, M Harriss ^d   Hughes, L ^e   McCulloch, M T ^f   McIntyre, S ^a   Nix, H A ^c   Prober, S M ^a   Saunders, D A ^a   Andersen, A N ^a   Burgman, M A ^g   Lefroy, E C ^h   Lonsdale, W M ^a   Lowe, I ⁱ   McMichael, A J ^j   Parslow, J S ^a   Steffen, W ^c   Williams, J E ^k   Woinarski, J C Z ^l,m  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d National Business Leaders Forum on Sustainable Development   (Australia)

^e MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

ⁱ GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^j The Australian National University   (Australia)

^k NRM Insights   (Australia)

^l Northern Territory Department of Natural Resources Environment and the Arts   (Australia)

^m CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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Author keywords

Australian ecology; Environmental management; Knowledge gaps

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INHIBITION; KNOWLEDGE; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; POLICY MAKING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 58249106844     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2008.01938.x     Document Type: Article

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