A Revolution in Land Use

Acknowledgements

This document was prepared for the Murray- Darling Basin Commission with assistance and important contributions from John Bartle, Warren Bond, Margaret Bryant, Heinz Buettikofer, Simon Cook, Hamish Cresswell, Christine Davies, Warrick Dawes, Frank Dunin, Hester Gascoigne, Don Gaydon, Greg Heath, Neil Huth, Neil McKenzie, Roslyn Prinsley, Merv Probert, Anna Ridley, Anthony Ringrose-Voase, Mike Robertson, Maarten Ryder, Denis Saunders, Richard Silberstein, Chris Smith, Kirsten Verburg, Rob Vertessy, Glen Walker, and Rick Young.

We acknowledge valuable contributions from the Grains Research and Development Corporation, Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation-Joint Venture Agroforestry Program (RIRDC-JVAP), Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation-Redesigning Agriculture for Australian Landscapes (LWRRDC-RAAL), CSIRO Plant Industry, CSIRO Tropical Agriculture, CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products, CSIRO Wildlife and Ecology, and the University of Western Australia.

We acknowledge in particular two books from which many of the ideas are drawn: Agriculture as a mimic of natural ecosystems (1999), Lefroy EC, Hobbs RJ, O'Connor MH, Pate JS (Eds) (Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht) and Trees, Water and Salt: an Australian guide for using trees to achieve healthy catchments and productive farms, Stirzaker RJ, Vertessy RA and Sarre A (Eds) (in prep), RIRDC/LWRRDC/FWPRDC Joint Venture Agroforestry Program. Released in November 2000.

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