Land Use in Australia: Past, present and future

Land Use

in Australia: Past, Present and Future, is a compilation

of invited chapters from Australia’s leading specialists in land use policy

and planning and land management.

Chapters present many widely recognised issues involved in Australia’s land

use policy and planning, including limited understanding and poor awareness

of:

• the rich history of poor decisions on land use planning and management

across different levels of government

• the discontinuities between providers of national biophysical information

• the tools, data and information to improve national land use

decision-making outcomes

• the poor synthesis and integration between science to policy

to natural resource management and resource condition

• the benefits of land use practitioners

engaging in connection, cooperation, mutual inquiry and collective social

learnings.

The aims of the book are threefold: 1) provide a review of the current

status of land use policy and planning in Australia; 2) provide a resource to

inform and influence the development of land use policy and planning; and 3)

provide a sound contribution to Australia’s public-private land use debates

in the future.

The audience for the book includes government and non-government land

management agencies from state and national bodies, universities and

researchers.