Foreword

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-ix

The Contributors

pp x-xii

Figures

pp xiii-xiii

Tables

pp xiv-xiv

Glossary

pp xv-xvi

Preface

pp xvii-xx

Land degradation and government

pp 1-4

I - Physical and biological aspects of land degradation

pp 5-6

1 - Australia's land resources at risk

pp 7-26

2 - Biological and physical phenomena in land degradation

pp 27-48

3 - Detection and measurement of land degradation processes

pp 49-76

II - Social costs

pp 77-78

4 - Onsite costs of land degradation in agriculture and forestry

pp 79-98

5 - Offsite costs of land degradation

pp 99-107

6 - Degradation pressures from non-agricultural land uses

pp 108-126

III - Legal, institutional and sociological factors

pp 127-128

7 - Land degradation: legal issues and institutional constraints

pp 129-174

8 - Land tenure: plaything of governments or an effective instrument?

pp 175-186

9 - Social bases of farmers' responses to land degradation

pp 187-200

IV - Behavioural causes, economic issues and policy instruments

pp 201-202

10 - Land degradation: behavioural causes

pp 203-212

11 - An economic perspective on government intervention in land degradation

pp 213-222

12 - Abatement of land degradation: regulations vs economic incentives

pp 223-260

V - Pressure groups, public agencies and policy formulation

pp 261-262

13 - Pressure groups and policy formulation

pp 263-274

14 - Policy agents: their interaction and effectiveness

pp 275-302

VI - Towards more effective policies for controlling land degradation: an overview

pp 303-304

15 - Contributions from the physical and biological sciences

pp 305-314