Environmental Science (ENV1022)

Monash University

Olympic Dam, S.A. – Great Artesian Basin and Mound Springs

Yeerlirrie, W.A. – groundwater problems

Kakadu, N.T. - World Heritage in 1981; Mulvaney’s comments about proposal to move to Endangered List in 1999 (see newspaper cutting - link below); comments on WH and Australian government Web sites - links below

Geological heritage and the Geological Society of Australia

Australian Heritage Commission, Canberra – Register of the National Estate

AHC state Natural Evaluation Panels - now disbanded!

A methodology by the GSA, for the AHC – Web site

GSA work in the states and territories – see Web site for Victoria

State government lists and registers

ECC & LCC Victoria - Marine Parks & Box-Ironbark studies

Australian Government

early AHC legislation - 1975

Further legislation in 1999, then in July 2000 - the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, and more legislation in 2002 - see links below.

Legislation in the states

Regional Forest Agreements

The Natural Charter and guidelines

Trust for Nature and other bodies

NEW! Ethical investment in Uranium, October 2005 - see links below

Some Reading

+ Aplin, Graeme, 2004. Kakadu National Park World Heritage Site: Deconstructing the Debate, 1997-2003. Australian Geographical Studies, June 2004, 42 (2), pp.152-174. (link below)

*Joyce, E.B. 1994. Assessing the significance of geological heritage sites: from the local level to world heritage. Proceedings of the 1^st International Symposium on the Conservation of Our Geological Heritage, Digne les Bains, 11-16 June 1991. Mémoires de la Société géologique de France, n.s.165, 37-43.

*McBriar, M. & Hasenor, P. 1994. Australian initiatives in earth science conservation. Proceedings of the 1^st International Symposium on the Conservation of Our Geological Heritage, Digne les Bains, 11-16 June 1991. Mémoires de la Société géologique de France, n.s.165, 75-79.

+Joyce, E. B. 1995. Assessing the Significance of Geological Heritage: A methodology study for the Australian Heritage Commission. A report prepared for the Australian Heritage Commission by the Standing Committee for Geological Heritage of the Geological Society of Australia Inc.19pp.

+Joyce, E. B. 1995. A review of geological heritage methodologies, with a bibliography of publications and reports on the methodology of geological heritage in Australia and overseas, in Joyce, E. B. Assessing the Significance of Geological Heritage: A methodology study for the Australian Heritage Commission. A report prepared for the Australian Heritage Commission by the Standing Committee for Geological Heritage of the Geological Society of Australia Inc. pp. A1.1-A1.23.

+Joyce, Bernie. 1999. Different thinking: The oldest continent. Earth Heritage 12: pp.11-13.

Mitchell, M. M., Cochrane, R. M. & King, R. L. 2000. Sites of geological significance in the MELBOURNE 1:250 000 mapsheet area, Geological Survey of Victoria Technical Record 2000/1, 184pp. + maps

Hoatson, D. and others, 2000. Kakadu and Nitmulik National Parks, Northern Territory: A guide to the rocks, landforms, plants, animals, Aboriginal culture, and human impact. Australian Geological Survey Organisation, Canberra. 110 pp.

New reference Aust. Geog. Studies July 04:

http://web.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/Joyce/heritage/AGSrefKakadu.jpg

http://web.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/Joyce/heritage/kakadu

Kakadu National Park at UNESCO:

http://www.unesco.org/whc/sites/147.htm

Welcome to World Heritage:

http://www.unesco.org/whc/nwhc/pages/home/pages/homepage.htm

World Heritage - list of Australian sites:

http://www.unesco.org/whc/nwhc/pages/sites/maplist/f_oceasia.htm

World Heritage report on threat to Kakadu, Kyoto 1998:

http://www.unesco.org/whc/archive/repcom98.htm#sc147

Mulvaney on Kakadu14 July 1999:

http://web.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/Joyce/heritage/MulvaneyKakadu2.jpg

World Heritage - news on Kakadu, 12th July 1999:

http://www.unesco.org/whc/news/news0712.htm#debut

Australia and World Heritage:

http://www.ea.gov.au/heritage/awh/worldheritage/index.html

Kakadu:

http://www.ea.gov.au/heritage/awh/worldheritage/sites/kakadu/index.html

Update on Jabiluka mine - 5th September 2002:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/09/05/1031115902061.html

A comment from the Australian Conservation Foundation - 5th September 2002: Plugging the credibility gap - Rio Tinto urged to end Jabiluka

http://www.acfonline.org.au/asp/pages/document.asp?IdDoc=798

Aborigines anticipate new Jabiluka era - 7.30 Report, ABC, 14th August(?) 2003:

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2003/s924745.htm

Uranium in the news 2004

Uranium in the news The Australian July 3-4, 2004:

http://web.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/Joyce/heritage/UraniumAustJul04.jpg

Kakadu in the news The Age 1 Sep 04:

http://web.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/Joyce/heritage/KakaduAgeSep04.jpg

Kakadu in the news The Australian 1 Sep 04:

http://web.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/Joyce/heritage/KakaduAustSep04.jpg

Other 2004 itesm to search for: Closing Jabiru; nuclear waste disposal; working with the indigenous people - try web searches

Uranium in the news 2005

Try searches on The Age, The Herald-Sun & The Australian for further items. :

Australian Heritage Commission:

http://www.ahc.gov.au/heritage/

Australian Natural Heritage Charter:

http://www.ahc.gov.au/infores/publications/anhc/preamble.html

More details

http://www.ahc.gov.au/infores/publications/nhnames/body_introduction.html

AHC book "Protecting Local Heritage Places":

http://www.ahc.gov.au/heritage/infores/publications/localheritage/ahc-2.html

Further Heritage Legislation - comments updated to 27th June 2002:

http://www.ahc.gov.au/heritage/news/index.html

Geological Society of Australia heritage page:

http://www.gsa.org.au/awareness/heritage.htm

Geological heritage index page:

http://web.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/Joyce/heritage/heritage.html

Geological heritage in Victoria - via Victorian Division's index page:

http://vic.gsa.org.au/

Back to Top of this lecture " Heritage issues and legislation procedures" Environmental Science (ENV1022) September 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 & 2004:

http://web.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/Joyce/heritage/lecture.html

Past issues of Earth Heritage magazine in the UK:

http://ds.dial.pipex.com/seabury.salmon/earth.html

Some Australian volcanoes:

http://www.ga.gov.au/archive/volcanoes/

Some more Australian volcanoes (a bit obsessive?):

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/sorted_by_country.html

One of the newest Earth Science display in the world!

http://www.dynamicearth.co.uk/

Associate Professor E. B. Joyce
School of Earth Sciences
The University of Melbourne
VIC 3010
AUSTRALIA
Tel: 0427 330 117 Fax: 03 8344 7761

Email: Bernie Joyce

Revised:
6th October 2005