The land managers, planners and policy makers associated with
the tropical savannas are often dealing with issues that are unique
to remote northern Australia – and often the Natural and
Cultural Resource Management (NCRM) knowledge for these areas is
not easy to access. The Tropical Savannas CRC took advantage of its
links to a broad range of knowledge providers across the north to
make this knowledge more easily accessible. This lead to the
following initiatives:
Establishing a Savanna “Library”
The Centre has produced or supported the production of around
one hundred different books, booklets or reports on various aspects
of savanna NCRM. These include
Ground-breaking books that for the first time bring together a
broad range of knowledge on the savannas:
·
Savanna
Burning: Understanding and Using Fire in Northern
Australia
·
The
Nature of Northern Australia: Natural values, ecological processes
and future prospects
·
Culture,
Ecology and Economy of Fire Management in North Australian
Savannas: rekindling the wurrk tradition
·
The Bush book: A manual for managing native vegetation across
northern Australia
Books that profile aspects of a region
·
Slower
than the eye can see: Environmental change in northern
Australia’s cattle lands – a case study from the
Victoria River District, Northern Territory
·
Healthy
Rangelands: Principles for sustainable systems. Focus on
Australia’s Burdekin rangelands
·
Managing for
healthy country in the VRD
·
Threatened
Plants of Cape York Peninsula
Practical, hands-on guides
·
North
Australian Grasslands Fuel Guide: Sturt Plateau and Victoria River
District, N.T.
·
Healthy
country indicator species for Cape York Peninsula
·
A
field guide to assessing Australia’s Tropical Riparian
Zones
Reports on practical aspects of savanna management
·
Weed
Management on Aboriginal Land
·
Using
satellite remote sensing to gauge grazing land condition
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Monitoring biodiversity
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And many others
Reports that inform better planning and policy for Savanna
management
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Reports on the regional dynamics of the savannas
·
Reports that evaluated regional planning used by the
regional NRM groups in the savannas
·
Reports on tourism and its impact in the tropical
savannas
In total over 14,400 of these publications were sold and over
14,800 were distributed free of charge to people involved with
managing the tropical savannas between 2001 and 2009.
Developing web-based access to savanna NRM
information
The North Australian Land Manager website (www.landmanager.org.au) is a
clearinghouse for a range of information and research findings on
Natural and Cultural Resource Management in northern Australia. It
allows users to browse for information using a combination of
regions and topics.
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The north Australian Land Managers website
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Since it was launched in early 2007, over 220,000
pdf publications related to savanna NRM have been
downloaded.
