Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- Victoria's Living Natural Capital - Decline and Replenishment, 1800-2050; Part 2, the New Millennium: Replenishment
- In
- The Victorian naturalist
- Imprint
- vol. 123, no. 5, 2006, pp. 288-313
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.667849623640559
- Subject
- History of Natural Sciences Biological Sciences
- Abstract
Colonial and post-colonial views of 'europeanising' the landscape have evolved to a new sense of place which embraces native biodiversity. Victoria's economy has diversified and new drivers of change in land use, not based on the primacy of intensive agricultural production, are apparent across large areas of Victoria. Past science and technology (agronomy and engineering) is being challenged by emerging sciences, and new concepts such as ecosystem services can be combined to replenish the natural capital. The inevitability of global warming and the necessity to maximise the capacity of our biodiversity to adapt will be important drivers. Replenishment will happen through changing community values; the availability of adequate space and habitat; and the increase in pertinent and applied knowledge.
- Source
- Horacek 2006