The forces that shape Australian landscapes

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The forces that shape Australian landscapes
Ted Lefroy Centre for Environment, University of
Tasmania
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What did we learn?

• The volatility of markets
• The power of local action
• The role of institutions
• The value of history

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Forces shaping Australian landscapes
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The "Treechangers" are coming!

13 November 2007

• 50 of rural properties expected to change
  hands in the next 10 years
• Double the turnover of the last decade
• Many are new arrivals with different values
  approaches to managing land

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Four social landscapes
Neil Barr, Victorian Department of Primary
Industries
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What are farmers for?

• Not economics
• Not food security
• Identity character

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The expanding concept of rights
Future
Present
Ethical past
Pre-ethical past
Roderick Nash The Rights of Nature 1990
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The expanding concept of rights
Australia
1994
1993
1967
1947
1894 (SA)
1901 (1942, 1987)
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Prospect and Refuge
John Glover Mills Plains with Ben Lomond and Ben
Loder, 1835 (Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery)
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Prospect and Refuge
Mills Plains 2006, from the cover of the
Australian Forest Growers conference program
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Fire and the original mosaic landscape
management through local negotiation
Panorama of King George Sound from Mt Clarence,
Richard Dale 1832, (Art Gallery of WA)
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Fire and the original mosaic
Joseph Lysett Constitution Hill, Tasmania, 1832
(Australian National Library)
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600 Aboriginal languages
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685 Local Governments
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Climate change
and the 6th extinction
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Climate change
Creating refugia for the 6th extinction

• The biota adapts as individuals, not communities
• In unpredictable ways (temp rainfall gradients)
• ? Connect in all directions

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Forces shaping Australian landscapes
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