Australian Rainforests in a Global Context

Living in a Dynamic Tropical Forest Landscape

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4-20

  Stork, Nigel E ^a,d,e   Goosem, Stephen ^b,d   Turton, Stephen M ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Wet Tropics Mgmt Authority   (Australia)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Ecology and Management ^*  (Australia)

^e Earthwatch Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian rainforests and their significance; Australian Rainforests In Global Context; Global distribution of tropical rainforest; Percentage contribution to Australia's present day extent of rainforest; Rainforests as contested landscapes; Tropical rainforests renowned for immense biodiversity; Wet Tropics central position in national environmental politics; Wet Tropics rainforests and changes in human perceptions; World Heritage tropical rainforest properties

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN RAINFORESTS AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; GLOBAL CONTEXT; HUMAN PERCEPTION; RAINFORESTS AS CONTESTED LANDSCAPES; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY;

EID: 77957354177     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444300321.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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