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050 00 $aGE160.A8$bE59 1998
245 00 $aEnvironmental indicators for national state of the environment reporting :$bnatural and cultural heritage /$cMichael Pearson ... [et al.].
246 38 $aEnvironmental indicators : natural and cultural heritage
260 $aCanberra, A.C.T. :$bEnvironment Australia, Department of the Environment,$cc1998.
300 $aiv, 124 p. ;$c30 cm.
440 0 $aAustralia, state of the environment.$pEnvironmental indicator report
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 100-105).
505 0 $aPreface -- Summary -- Executive summary -- Background -- Heritage issues and development of indicators -- Regionalisations and spatial scales for reporting on national environmental indicators -- Research and development needs -- Recommended key indicators: general indicators -- Knowledge of the heritage resource -- Condition of heritage -- Societal and government responses -- Recommended key indicators: natural -- Knowledge of natural heritage places -- Protection by government -- Recommended key indicators: indigenous -- Indigenous places that inform about the past and the archaeological record -- Knowledge of indigenous (archaeological) heritage places -- Impact of development (humanly initiated actions including tourism) -- Impact of natural processes and humanly accelerated or initiated natural processes -- Statutory protection and management -- Indigenous places important to the heritage of living cultures -- Indigenous languages and heritage -- Recommended key indicators: historic -- Condition of historic heritage places -- Protection by government -- Recommended key indicators: objects -- Knowledge of heritage collections -- Knowledge of the condition of heritage collections -- Condition of heritage collections - Community and professional use of collections -- Appendices -- Appendix A. Indicators considered for the key set but not included -- Appendix B. Contact list -- Appendix C. Abbreviations.
520 0 $aThis report provides a proposed set of key environmental indicators for natural and cultural heritage as part of Commonwealth state of the environment reporting. These are the minimum set of indicators that will provide rigorous data describing the major trends and impacts on Australia's places and objects of natural, indigenous and historic value.
540 $aCommonwealth of Australia 1998.
650 0 $aEnvironmental indicators$zAustralia.
650 0 $aCultural property$xProtection$zAustralia.
650 0 $aHistoric preservation$zAustralia.
650 0 $aConservation of natural resources$zAustralia.
700 1 $aPearson, Michael,$d1951-