2011 Rangeland Journal Lecture Series 

 This special lecture series was held in November 2011 during the visit to Australia of Professor John Milne, the Editor-in-Chief of The Rangeland Journal.

Four lectures were given and the first three were videoed. 

Lecture 1 - 17 November 2011 at the Australian National University, CANBERRA. Mark Stafford Smith presented this lecture entitled Sustaining the Outback: from rangelands ecology to a science of desert living. Ken Hodgkinson introduces Mark and the Lecture Series view (58 min.)

Lecture 2 - 22 November 2011 at the Desert Knowledge Precinct, ALICE SPRINGS. Grant Allan presented this lecture entitled Seeing through the smoke: the challenges of fire management in central Australia view (50 min.)
 

Lecture 3 - 25 November 2011 at the EcoSciences Precinct, BRISBANE. Andrew Ash presented this lecture entitled Is proactive adaptation to climate change necessary in grazed rangelands? view (41 min.)
  

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Restoring Disturbed Landscapes: putting principles into practice

by David Tongway and John Ludwig.

Restoring Disturbed Landscapes is a hands-on guide for individuals and groups seeking to improve the functional capacity of landscapes. The book presents a five-step, adaptive procedure for restoring landscapes that is supported by proven principles and concepts of ecological science.

This book is an immensely valuable resource for anyone interested in self-learning about how to restore landscapes.

David Tongway explains how he and John Ludwig came to write this book. "Although we began the landscape analysis work in Rangelands, circumstances drew us towards other land uses and different climates. We were surprised to find that the principles worked out in semi-arid lands also applied to more mesic landscapes and to highly disturbed landscapes such as open-cut coal mines. Minesite rehabilitation is rather more hard-edged than improving rangelands, because there is a responsibility to do this well, with a financial penalty when not done well enough. Both John and I have worked on a variety of landscape types and problems constantly testing and modifying the principles first elucidated at Lake Mere Station, NSW, in the period 1985 to 1990. We have of course drawn on the work of most of our direct colleagues working with us during those years".
 

In the Preface of the book they write "At the heart of Restoring Disturbed Landscapes is the five-step procedure of setting clear goals, defining the problem, designing solutions, applying technologies, and monitoring their effects, and, if needed, adaptively improving technologies. We will explain the principles behind this adaptive landscape restoration procedure and present examples to demonstrate why we believe that putting these principles into practise leads to successful landscape restoration."

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