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Threatened Species
legislation: is it just an Act? Edited by Pat Hutchings, Daniel
Lunney ISBN 0 9586085 9 8
A
collection of papers from the 2003 Royal Zoological Society forum in which
speakers addressed different aspects of threatened species legislation, from
the question of assessing the certainty of the scientists on the committees
which decide which species should be on the lists, to the impact on various
affected parties, including government agencies, consultants and community
groups. A centrepiece is the view from those who look at the
effectiveness of the law, whether from the legal angle or from the biologist
coming to grips with the law as an instrument to conserve biodiversity. TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword
IV Preface
V11 The wider
context The
evolving intent and coverage of legislation to protect biodiversity in New
South Wales P. J. Jarman and M. A. Brock 1 Expert
frailties in conservation risk assessment and listing decisions M. Burgman
20 (Why)
Do we need threatened species legislation? D. Farrier and R. J. Whelan 30 The
precautionary principle: what is it and how might it be applied in
threatened species conservation? R. J. Whelan, C. L. Brown and D. Farrier 49 NSW
legislation Opening
a can of words. The importance of definitions in the NSW Threatened
Species Conservation Act P. Adam 59 The
Scientific Committee under the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995:
seven years of debate C. R. Dickman 68 Endangered
populations: the concept in practice J. Baker 82 Invertebrates
and threatened species legislation P. Hutchings 88 Endangered
ecological communities and landscape conservation in NSW: successes and
failures in the Sydney Basin T. D. Auld and M. Tozer 94 Threat abatement
plans: strategic pest management for biodiversity conservation A. Leys 102 Implementation
issues: consequences, difficulties, opportunities Case studies in
implementing the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 for
invertebrate conservation M. J. Murphy and S. Nally 107 The rivers to the sea:
experiences with two endangered aquatic fish species B. Talbot, Threatened species
legislation and threatened species recovery: does the former lead to the
latter? J. M. Shields 135 The neglected 74% -
the non-threatened vertebrates - and a reflection on the limitations of the
process that fashioned the current schedules of threatened species in New
South Wales D. Lunney, A. Matthews, H. Cogger, C. Dickman 145 Threatened species
legislation: Does it work for local communities or Local Government?J.
Lambert 158 Struggling with the
Act – some observations by ecological consultants M. Denny 164 Plenary Session
172 Threatened species
legislation: just one act in the playC. Dickman, P. Hutchings and D. Lunney
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