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Natural environments: bibliography

Volcanic Environments

Birch, William D (2004) Volcanoes in Victoria, Royal Society of Victoria (Revised Edition).

Fisher, Robert V et. al (1977) Volcanoes Crucibles of Change, Princeton University Press, USA.

Francis, Peter (1976) Volcanoes, Penguin Books, UK.

Hills, E Sherbon (1951) Physiography of Victoria, Whitcombe and Tombs.

Longmans Outcomes SOSE, Longmans, Melbourne, 2001

Mount St Helens –The Continuing Story, KC Publications, Las Vegas.

Prosser, Robert (1992) Natural systems and human responses, Nelson, UK.

Reichl, Phyllis (1968) Volcanic Plains of Western Victoria, Place, time and people field studies series, Nelson, Australia.

Sale, Colin (1989) Our Wonderful World, Longman Cheshire, Melbourne.

Waugh, David (1990) Geography An Integrated Approach, Nelson, UK.

Temperate forests

Costermans, Leon (2000) Native trees and shrubs of South Eastern Australia, Reed, New Holland.

Buchanan, Robin A (2000) Bush Regeneration, Recovering Australian Landscapes, TAFE Student Learning Publications, NSW.

Groves, R H (ed)(1981) Australian Vegetation, Cambridge University Press, Sydney.

Guinness Paul and Nagle Garrett (2005) Advanced Geography, Concepts and Cases, Hodder and Stoughton, UK.

American Association for the Advancement of Science (2000) Atlas of Population and Environment, University of California Press.

Borschmann Greg (1999) The People's Forest, People's Forest Press, NSW.

Websites

www.oren.org.au
The Otway Ranges Environment Network (OREN) comprises individuals and groups who care about environmental issues in the Otway region of Victoria. OREN has been campaigning for seven years to end clearfell logging in the Otway Native Forest.

www.melbourne.museum.vic.gov.au/exhibitions/gallery_forest.asp
The Melbourne Museum has a forest gallery which is an interpretation of a tall temperate forest typically found in Victoria.  This site explains aspects of the exhibition.  The Gallery could be used as an excursion as there is some interpretative material on how temperate forests can change through fire, climate and human intervention.  The Gallery also highlights significant plants such as the Mountain Ash.

www.ace.net.au/darkmoon/tassie.htm
Losing Tasmania’s temperate forests.  This site looks at the Tarkine forest, Australia’s tallest temperate forest.

www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/aa/aa0409_full.html
South Eastern Australian Temperate forests.  The World Wildlife Fund manages this site and there is some good information on the characteristics of temperate forests.

www.dse.vic.gov.au/.../149027878A46CAD7CA256FE9001A4E70/$File/rainforest+and+CTMF+draft+action+statement.pdf
Draft flora and fauna guarantee for Victoria’s temperate forests.

www.dse.vic.gov.au/dse/nrenfor.nsf/Home+Page/DSE+Forestry~Home+Page?open
The Department of Sustainability and Environment is responsible for looking after Victoria's forests.  It manages Victoria's 3.4 million hectares of State forest, and provides policy guidance for a further 3.7 million hectares of forested parks and reserves.  It also gives conservation guidance and incentives to private landholders who manage 1.2 million hectares of largely native forest and 360,000 hectares of plantation.

A first ever!  Victoria's State of the Forests Report is structured according to the internationally recognised Montreal Process criteria for sustainable forest management.  By using an internationally recognised and agreed process DSE will be able to ensure that Victoria's forest management can be compared with a range of other countries (eg. Canada, Japan and the USA).

www.forest-network.org
The Forest Network is run by Friends of the Earth and this website has information on many temperate forests in Victoria.

www.cfa.vic.gov.au
Country Fire Authority site has some relevant information on fires for both teachers and students and also links to other sites.

www.wafa.org.au
Western Australia Forest alliance

www.ffp.csiro.au
CSIRO forests and forestry products

www.nafi.com.au
National Association of Forest Industries

www.anbg.gov.au/index.html
Australian National Botanic Gardens has information about any Australian plant and the conditions needed for them to grow.

abc.net.au/blackfriday/home/default.htm
Black Friday fires of 1939.  This is an award winning site about the Black Friday bushfires in 1939.  Found on the ABC website it contains eye witness accounts, maps, newspaper articles and more.  The ABC site also has an archive of news articles on a variety of forest related topics.

Coastal environments

Australian State of the Environment Committee (2001) Australia State of the Environment Report 2001 (Theme Report), CSIRO Publishing on behalf of the Department of the Environment and Heritage, Commonwealth of Australia.
www.deh.gov.au/soe/2001/coasts/introduction.html

Bird, E C F (1984) Coasts: an introduction to coastal geomorphology, Third Edition, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne.

Bird, E C F (1993) The Coast of Victoria: the shaping of scenery, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne.

Breidahl, H J (1989) Coastal Wildlife, Gould League of Victoria, Melbourne.

Commonwealth Science and Industry Research Organisation (1996) Port Phillip Bay Environmental Study, Melbourne Water and CSIRO, Melbourne.

Department of Sustainability and Environment, including Coast Action and Coastcare
www.dse.vic.gov.au

Department of Natural Resources and Environment (1998) The coast kit: a Victorian coastal resource information kit, DNRE, East Melbourne.

Parks Victoria
www.parkweb.vic.gov.au/1park_marine.cfm

Resource Assessment Committee (1992) Coastal Zone Inquiry: Background Paper. Australian Government Publishing Service.

Sale, C (1994) Our Wonderful World, Longman, Melbourne