D Mark Stafford Smith

• A history of CSIRO’s Central Australian Laboratory 2, 1980–2018

  Open Access•Margaret H Friedel, Stephen Morton et al.•ARTICLE•Historical Records of Australian…•2023

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  In the first 27 years of the Central Australian Laboratory (CAL), to 1980, research focussed almost entirely on the needs of the pastoral industry. By the 1980s, ongoing campaigns for Aboriginal land rights and demands to conserve biodiversity plainly showed that there were other land uses deserving research attention. Initially CAL’s research agenda expanded to include conservation in spinifex grasslands and grazing lands but remained biophysica…

• Global Desertification

  Open Access•James F Reynolds, Mark Stafford‐Smith et al.•ARTICLE•Science•2007

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  In this millennium, global drylands face a myriad of problems that present tough research, management, and policy challenges. Recent advances in dryland development, however, together with the integrative approaches of global change and sustainability science, suggest that concerns about land degradation, poverty, safeguarding biodiversity, and protecting the culture of 2.5 billion people can be confronted with renewed optimism. We review recent …

• Global Desertification

  Open Access•James F Reynolds, Mark Stafford‐Smith et al.•ARTICLE•Science•2007

  Añadir item

  In this millennium, global drylands face a myriad of problems that present tough research, management, and policy challenges. Recent advances in dryland development, however, together with the integrative approaches of global change and sustainability science, suggest that concerns about land degradation, poverty, safeguarding biodiversity, and protecting the culture of 2.5 billion people can be confronted with renewed optimism. We review recent …

• A history of CSIRO’s Central Australian Laboratory 2, 1980–2018

  Open Access•Margaret H Friedel, Stephen Morton et al.•ARTICLE•Historical Records of Australian…•2023

  Añadir item

  In the first 27 years of the Central Australian Laboratory (CAL), to 1980, research focussed almost entirely on the needs of the pastoral industry. By the 1980s, ongoing campaigns for Aboriginal land rights and demands to conserve biodiversity plainly showed that there were other land uses deserving research attention. Initially CAL’s research agenda expanded to include conservation in spinifex grasslands and grazing lands but remained biophysica…

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