Future change in Australian Rangelands

This booklet is derived from a workshop held in July 1994, which gathered the best current knowledge about likely impacts of global change and applied it to the Australian rangelands. Several participants came from rangelands research groups overseas, giving a broad perspective on Ausralian issues.|The assessments in the workshop and in this booklet are based on climate change scenarios from CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research.|Points discussed in this booklet are important if Australia is to meet the objectives of the three international conventions signed by representatives of the Australian Government in recent years :|The climate change convention, signed in 1992, commits countries to limiting greenhouse emmissons; the biodiversity convention, signed in 1992, aims to prevent further loss of the world's plant and animal species; the desertification convention, signed (but not yet ratified), requires nations to protect their lands against degradation.|Published paper kept in vertical file collection