Environmental offsets / editors: Shelley Burgin and Tor Hundloe.
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TextPublisher: Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, [2021]Description: 1 online resource (viii, 131 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781486313198
- 1486313191
- 9781486313204
- 1486313205
- Environmental protection -- Australia
- Environmental protection
- Biodiversity conservation
- Carbon offsetting
- Carbon dioxide mitigation
- Conservation of natural resources
- Environnement -- Protection -- Australie
- Environnement -- Protection
- Biodiversité -- Conservation
- Compensation des émissions de carbone
- Gaz carbonique -- Réduction
- Conservation des ressources naturelles
- environmental protection
- Organic farming
- Science: general issues
- Conservation of natural resources
- Carbon offsetting
- Carbon dioxide mitigation
- Biodiversity conservation
- Environmental protection
- Australia
- Environmental policy & protocols
- Agriculture & farming
- Sustainable agriculture
- Sustainability
- Impact of science & technology on society
- Environmental management
- 363.700994 23
- GE190.A8 E58 2021
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 120-127) and index.
Introduction to environmental offsets / Tor Hundloe and Shelley Burgin -- Crucial and contentious issues in addressing offsets / Tor Hundloe -- Nuts and bolts of biodiversity offsetting / Tor Hundloe and Shelley Burgin -- Management of protected areas : the need for environmental offsets / Shelley Burgin -- Case studies. The 'Green Olympics' saves the green and golden bell frog / Shelley Burgin. Recreational fishers seek offsets / Shelley Burgin and Alan Midgley. 'Roof gardens' : an emerging offset opportunity / Craig Langston, Kaylavizhi Sundarraj Chandrasekar and Shelley Burgin. Offsetting coal-based electricity / Tor Hundloe and Keeley Hartzer -- Case studies : offsetting in developing countries. Offsets in developing countries / Tor Hundloe. Compensating for the loss of tribal lifestyle / Eric Fru Zama, Shelley Burgin and Tor Hundloe. Role of offsets in the conservation of cultural and built heritage / Johari HN Amar, Lynne Armitage and Tor Hundloe -- All forms of offsetting rolled into one. Adani coal mine : attempting the impossible / Tor Hundloe and Sheron Chand -- Major task for the future. Urgent matter : offsetting coal mining jobs / Tor Hundloe and Ella Dewilde.
Environmental Offsets addresses four major forms of environmental offsets - biodiversity offsets, carbon offsets, offsetting the depletion of non-renewable resources and offsetting the destruction of built heritage. The authors discuss their research and provide case studies from around Australia and across the developing world.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 10, 2021).
National edeposit: Available onsite at the National Library of Australia, State Library Victoria Online access with authorization. star AU-CaNED
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