Arthur Conacher
Biographic Data
| ID | 1618626 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arthur Conacher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arthur |
| FAMILY NAME | Conacher |
| SIGNATURE | CONACHER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Large-scale controls on the development of sand seas in northern China
The Earth's Land Surface - By Kenneth J Gregory
Australian Geographical Studies/Geographical Research Referees 2003-2009
Land Degradation and Poverty
Land Degradation and Poverty was the theme of a ten-day study tour and workshop held in February 2006 in north central Vietnam's Nghe An Province, about 300 km south of Hanoi. The study tour was organised jointly by the International Geographical Union's Commission on Land Degradation (COMLAND), Vinh University, and the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences’ Institute for Environment and Sustainable Development. Bringing together 14 foreign particip…
Integrated, Regional, Natural Resource and Environmental Planning and the Natural Heritage Trust Phase 2
Since 2002, the Australian Natural Heritage Trust Phase 2 (NHT2) has required community groups seeking funds for natural resource management projects to have developed nationally accredited regional strategies and investment plans. This case study reports on the progress of one such regional (and sub-regional) group, examining in particular the perceptions of the community group members and other stakeholders of the overall process. Through inter…
Award of the Institute of Australian Geographers' Australia-International Medal
The effects of The Quesungual Agroforestry System of western Honduras on soil macrofauna
Agricultural practices that promote increased diversity and abundance of soil macrofauna may improve soil quality and productivity, due to the influence of soil macrofauna on organic matter breakdown, nutrient cycling and soil structure.Southern Lempira department in Honduras is an environment where farmers could benefit greatly from such an increase in soil quality.The landscape is hilly, with steep slopes and shallow soils that are susceptible …
Sustainable management of land degradation
A Role for Geomorphology in Integrated Catchment Management
Catchments (watersheds) are integrated through water movements. Water moves sediments; and the translocation of materials has geomorphic and pedological responses. Fertiliser and pesticide residues and other toxic substances are also transported by water, in solution and attached to sediment particles, affecting various ecological components of catchments. The insertion of pollutants is directly caused by land‐use practices. In turn, land uses ar…
Erosion of Access Tracks in Kalamunda National Park, Western Australia
Construction of access tracks in national parks and other reserves in the south-west of Western Australia is an essential feature of park management. However, their construction was often carried out with little or no appreciation of soil and slope characteristics and potential erodibility, or the effect of slope and stream sedimentation on terrestrial and aquatic flora and fauna. This paper reports on the findings of a study carried out in Kalam…
Environmental quality indicators
Environmental or land quality indicators are being developed internationally as a means whereby the ‘State of the Environment’ (SoE) can be assessed and trends monitored. In Australia, the use of indicators in SoE reporting is in its early stages of development. Indicators have been developed, in relation to agriculture, for flora and fauna, soil, chemical contamination, surface waters and groundwater. Internationally, the World Bank has listed ‘…
Resource development and environmental stress
Environmental legislation in Western Australia
Water quality and forests in Southwestern Australia
Water restrictions imposed during 1977 have focused attention on the adequac of Perth's water supply. However the deterioration of water quality through increasing salinizauon is at least as serious a problem, both now and in the future. Maintenance of a healthy forest cover, to which fresh water catchments are restricted, is crucial. But forests are being depleted by a range of causes, of which intensive forestry practices are one of the most im…
Some thoughts about future developments/directions in environmental studies by geographers in Australia
Some thoughts about future developments/directions in environmental studies by geographers in Australia." Australian Geographer, 14(2), pp. 68–69
Conservation and geography
Causes of earthflows in the Southern Chittering Valley, Western Australia
Implications and Causes of Salinity Problems in the Western Australian Wheatbelt
Drainage basin expansion and the nine unit landsurface model
Open Systems and Dynamic Equilibrium in Geomorphology
The meckering earthquake, Western Australia, 14 october 1968
(1969). The meckering earthquake, Western Australia, 14 october 1968. Australian Geographer: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 179-184
Integrated, Regional, Natural Resource and Environmental Planning and the Natural Heritage Trust Phase 2
Since 2002, the Australian Natural Heritage Trust Phase 2 (NHT2) has required community groups seeking funds for natural resource management projects to have developed nationally accredited regional strategies and investment plans. This case study reports on the progress of one such regional (and sub-regional) group, examining in particular the perceptions of the community group members and other stakeholders of the overall process. Through inter…
Environmental legislation in Western Australia
Water quality and forests in Southwestern Australia
Water restrictions imposed during 1977 have focused attention on the adequac of Perth's water supply. However the deterioration of water quality through increasing salinizauon is at least as serious a problem, both now and in the future. Maintenance of a healthy forest cover, to which fresh water catchments are restricted, is crucial. But forests are being depleted by a range of causes, of which intensive forestry practices are one of the most im…
Conservation and geography
Resource development and environmental stress
Implications and Causes of Salinity Problems in the Western Australian Wheatbelt
Australian Geographical Studies/Geographical Research Referees 2003-2009
A Role for Geomorphology in Integrated Catchment Management
Catchments (watersheds) are integrated through water movements. Water moves sediments; and the translocation of materials has geomorphic and pedological responses. Fertiliser and pesticide residues and other toxic substances are also transported by water, in solution and attached to sediment particles, affecting various ecological components of catchments. The insertion of pollutants is directly caused by land‐use practices. In turn, land uses ar…
Erosion of Access Tracks in Kalamunda National Park, Western Australia
Construction of access tracks in national parks and other reserves in the south-west of Western Australia is an essential feature of park management. However, their construction was often carried out with little or no appreciation of soil and slope characteristics and potential erodibility, or the effect of slope and stream sedimentation on terrestrial and aquatic flora and fauna. This paper reports on the findings of a study carried out in Kalam…
Some thoughts about future developments/directions in environmental studies by geographers in Australia
Some thoughts about future developments/directions in environmental studies by geographers in Australia." Australian Geographer, 14(2), pp. 68–69
Causes of earthflows in the Southern Chittering Valley, Western Australia
Drainage basin expansion and the nine unit landsurface model
Open Systems and Dynamic Equilibrium in Geomorphology
The meckering earthquake, Western Australia, 14 october 1968
(1969). The meckering earthquake, Western Australia, 14 october 1968. Australian Geographer: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 179-184
Implications and Causes of Salinity Problems in the Western Australian Wheatbelt
Drainage basin expansion and the nine unit landsurface model
Causes of earthflows in the Southern Chittering Valley, Western Australia
Conservation and geography
Some thoughts about future developments/directions in environmental studies by geographers in Australia
Some thoughts about future developments/directions in environmental studies by geographers in Australia." Australian Geographer, 14(2), pp. 68–69
Water quality and forests in Southwestern Australia
Water restrictions imposed during 1977 have focused attention on the adequac of Perth's water supply. However the deterioration of water quality through increasing salinizauon is at least as serious a problem, both now and in the future. Maintenance of a healthy forest cover, to which fresh water catchments are restricted, is crucial. But forests are being depleted by a range of causes, of which intensive forestry practices are one of the most im…
Environmental legislation in Western Australia
Resource development and environmental stress
Environmental quality indicators
Environmental or land quality indicators are being developed internationally as a means whereby the ‘State of the Environment’ (SoE) can be assessed and trends monitored. In Australia, the use of indicators in SoE reporting is in its early stages of development. Indicators have been developed, in relation to agriculture, for flora and fauna, soil, chemical contamination, surface waters and groundwater. Internationally, the World Bank has listed ‘…
Erosion of Access Tracks in Kalamunda National Park, Western Australia
Construction of access tracks in national parks and other reserves in the south-west of Western Australia is an essential feature of park management. However, their construction was often carried out with little or no appreciation of soil and slope characteristics and potential erodibility, or the effect of slope and stream sedimentation on terrestrial and aquatic flora and fauna. This paper reports on the findings of a study carried out in Kalam…
A Role for Geomorphology in Integrated Catchment Management
Catchments (watersheds) are integrated through water movements. Water moves sediments; and the translocation of materials has geomorphic and pedological responses. Fertiliser and pesticide residues and other toxic substances are also transported by water, in solution and attached to sediment particles, affecting various ecological components of catchments. The insertion of pollutants is directly caused by land‐use practices. In turn, land uses ar…
The effects of The Quesungual Agroforestry System of western Honduras on soil macrofauna
Agricultural practices that promote increased diversity and abundance of soil macrofauna may improve soil quality and productivity, due to the influence of soil macrofauna on organic matter breakdown, nutrient cycling and soil structure.Southern Lempira department in Honduras is an environment where farmers could benefit greatly from such an increase in soil quality.The landscape is hilly, with steep slopes and shallow soils that are susceptible …
Sustainable management of land degradation
Award of the Institute of Australian Geographers' Australia-International Medal
Integrated, Regional, Natural Resource and Environmental Planning and the Natural Heritage Trust Phase 2
Since 2002, the Australian Natural Heritage Trust Phase 2 (NHT2) has required community groups seeking funds for natural resource management projects to have developed nationally accredited regional strategies and investment plans. This case study reports on the progress of one such regional (and sub-regional) group, examining in particular the perceptions of the community group members and other stakeholders of the overall process. Through inter…
Land Degradation and Poverty
Land Degradation and Poverty was the theme of a ten-day study tour and workshop held in February 2006 in north central Vietnam's Nghe An Province, about 300 km south of Hanoi. The study tour was organised jointly by the International Geographical Union's Commission on Land Degradation (COMLAND), Vinh University, and the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences’ Institute for Environment and Sustainable Development. Bringing together 14 foreign particip…
Australian Geographical Studies/Geographical Research Referees 2003-2009
The Earth's Land Surface - By Kenneth J Gregory
Large-scale controls on the development of sand seas in northern China
Geography (18 works) · Ecology (9 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Citation (7 works) · Library science (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Environmental Science (6 works) · Geology (6 works) · History (6 works) · Soil erosion and sediment transport (6 works)