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Title: The Forest Wars
Condition: New
Author: Judith Ajani
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780522854190
ISBN: 9780522854190
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: Science Nature & Math, Technology & Engineering
Release Date: 01/07/2007
Description: Australia's long-unresolved forest conflict has been the make-or-break factor in federal elections for the last few decades, with both parties often arguing that the four-decade-old forest conflict has no practical solution. They are wrong. Australia's existing plantations can meet virtually all the nation's wood needs and replace all native forest woodchipping. Australia can have a large, highly competitive and prosperous forest industry without logging native forests. Since irreconciliable development versus environment interests cannot explain Australia's ongoing forest conflict, what does? Australia's forest conflict persists only because government has not let new, economically superior products displace environmentally inferior products in the market. Behind this failure lies silenced plantation processors, failing bureaucracies, government-created extraordinary native-forest-woodchipping profits and destructive union behaviour. Judy Clark documents and examines each in detail, and proposes a new forest policy for Australia, calling on individuals in the power sector - business people and politicians - to commit themselves to breaking down the obstructions.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: AU
Item Height: 234mm
Item Length: 160mm
Item Width: 33mm
Item Weight: 492g
Release Year: 2007

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