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Myers, Helen, Leonie Segal, Derrick Lopez, Ian W. Li, and David B. Preen. "Impact of family-friendly prison policies on health, justice and child protection outcomes for incarcerated mothers and their dependent children: a cohort study protocol." BMJ Open 7, no. 8 (August 2017): e016302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-016302.

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IntroductionFemale imprisonment has numerous health and social sequelae for both women prisoners and their children. Examples of comprehensive family-friendly prison policies that seek to improve the health and social functioning of women prisoners and their children exist but have not been evaluated. This study will determine the impact of exposure to a family-friendly prison environment on health, child protection and justice outcomes for incarcerated mothers and their dependent children.Methods and analysisA longitudinal retrospective cohort design will be used to compare outcomes for mothers incarcerated at Boronia Pre-release Centre, a women’s prison with a dedicated family-friendly environment, and their dependent children, with outcomes for mothers incarcerated at other prisons in Western Australia (that do not offer this environment) and their dependent children. Routinely collected administrative data from 1985 to 2013 will be used to determine child and mother outcomes such as hospital admissions, emergency department presentations, custodial sentences, community service orders and placement in out-of home care. The sample consists of all children born in Western Australia between 1 January 1985 and 31 December 2011 who had a mother in a West Australian prison between 1990 and 2012 and their mothers. Children are included if they were alive and aged less than 18 years at the time of their mother’s incarceration. The sample comprises an exposed group of 665 women incarcerated at Boronia and their 1714 dependent children and a non-exposed comparison sample of 2976 women incarcerated at other West Australian prisons and their 7186 dependent children, creating a total study sample of 3641 women and 8900 children.Ethics and disseminationThis project received ethics approval from the Western Australian Department of Health Human Research Ethics Committee, the Western Australian Aboriginal Health Ethics Committee and the University of Western Australia Human Research Ethics Committee.
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Riley, Thomas, Su Chen Lim, Peter Moono, Sicilia Perumalsamy, and Niki Foster. "High prevalence of Clostridium difficile in the Western Australian environment." Infection, Disease & Health 23 (November 2018): S20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idh.2018.09.079.

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Pritchard, D. L., N. Penney, M. J. McLaughlin, H. Rigby, and K. Schwarz. "Land application of sewage sludge (biosolids) in Australia: risks to the environment and food crops." Water Science and Technology 62, no. 1 (July 1, 2010): 48–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.2010.274.

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Australia is a large exporter of agricultural products, with producers responsible for a range of quality assurance programs to ensure that food crops are free from various contaminants of detriment to human health. Large volumes of treated sewage sludge (biosolids), although low by world standards, are increasingly being recycled to land, primarily to replace plant nutrients and to improve soil properties; they are used in agriculture, forestry, and composted. The Australian National Biosolids Research Program (NBRP) has linked researchers to a collective goal to investigate nutrients and benchmark safe concentrations of metals nationally using a common methodology, with various other research programs conducted in a number of states specific to regional problems and priorities. The use of biosolids in Australia is strictly regulated by state guidelines, some of which are under review following recent research outcomes. Communication and research between the water industry, regulators and researchers specific to the regulation of biosolids is further enhanced by the Australian and New Zealand Biosolids Partnership (ANZBP). This paper summarises the major issues and constraints related to biosolids use in Australia using specific case examples from Western Australia, a member of the Australian NBRP, and highlights several research projects conducted over the last decade to ensure that biosolids are used beneficially and safely in the environment. Attention is given to research relating to plant nutrient uptake, particularly nitrogen and phosphorus (including that of reduced phosphorus uptake in alum sludge-amended soil); the risk of heavy metal uptake by plants, specifically cadmium, copper and zinc; the risk of pathogen contamination in soil and grain products; change to soil pH (particularly following lime-amended biosolids); and the monitoring of faecal contamination by biosolids in waterbodies using DNA techniques. Examples of products that are currently produced in Western Australia from sewage sludge include mesophilic anaerobically digested and dewatered biosolids cake, lime-amended biosolids, alum sludge and compost.
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Colic-Peisker, Val. "Croatians in Western Australia: migration, language and class." Journal of Sociology 38, no. 2 (June 2002): 149–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/144078302128756552.

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This paper explores the migration experience of two cohorts of Croatian migrants in Australia focusing on the fact that they are non-English speaking background (NESB) migrants. Central attention is given to the intersection of class and ‘living in another language’ (being NESB in Australia). The first cohort migrated in the 1960s and is predominantly working class; the second migrated in the late 1980s and is predominantly professional. It is argued that living in an English speaking environment affects Croatian migrants in practical, cultural, identity and status terms. It determines their life chances, employment prospects and the feeling of belonging to the Australian community. However, the two groups of migrants, being from different socioeconomic backgrounds, are affected in different ways.
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Vlachos, Alexandra. "Fortress Farming in Western Australia? The Problematic History of Separating Native Wildlife from Agricultural Land through the State Barrier Fence." Global Environment 13, no. 2 (June 15, 2020): 368–403. http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/ge.2020.130206.

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The Western Australia (WA) State Barrier Fence stretches 2,023 miles (3,256 kilometres) and divides Australia's largest state. The original 'Rabbit Proof Fence' fence was built from 1901–1907 to stop the westbound expansion of rabbits into the existing and potential agricultural zone of Western Australia. Starting as a seemingly straightforward, albeit costly, solution to protect what was considered a productive landscape, the fence failed to keep out the rabbits. It was subsequently amended, upgraded, re-named and used to serve different purposes: as Vermin Fence and State Barrier Fence (unofficially also Emu Fence or Dog Fence) the fence was designed to exclude native Australian animals such as emus, kangaroos and dingoes. In the Australian 'boom and bust' environment, characterised by extreme temperatures and unpredictable rainfall, interrupting species movement has severe negative impacts on biodiversity – an issue aggravated by the fact that Australia leads in global extinction rates (Woinarski, Burbidge and Harrison, 2015). The twentieth century history of the fence demonstrates the agrarian settlers' struggle with the novelty and otherness of Western Australia's ecological conditions – and severe lack of knowledge thereof. While the strenuous construction, expensive maintenance and doubtful performance of the fence provided useful and early environmental lessons, they seem largely forgotten in contemporary Australia. The WA government recently commenced a controversial $11 million project to extend the State Barrier Fence for another 660 kilometres to reach the Esperance coast, targeting dingoes, emus and kangaroos – once again jeopardising habitat connectivity. This paper examines the environmental history, purposes and impacts of the State Barrier fence, critically discusses the problems associated with European farming and pastoralism in WA, and touches on alternative land-use perspectives and futures.
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Chessman, Bruce C., Nina Bate, Peter A. Gell, and Peter Newall. "A diatom species index for bioassessment of Australian rivers." Marine and Freshwater Research 58, no. 6 (2007): 542. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf06220.

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The Diatom Index for Australian Rivers (DIAR), originally developed at the genus level, was reformulated at the species level with data from diatom sampling of rivers in the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Victoria. The resulting Diatom Species Index for Australian Rivers (DSIAR) was significantly correlated with the ARCE (Assessment of River Condition, Environment) index developed in the Australian National Land and Water Resources Audit (NLWRA), and with nine of the ARCE’s constituent indices and sub-indices, across 395 river reaches in south-eastern Australia. These correlations were generally stronger than those shown by the biological index that was used to assess river condition in the NLWRA, the ARCB (Assessment of River Condition, Biota) index based on macroinvertebrates and the Australian River Assessment System (AUSRIVAS). At a finer spatial scale, DSIAR was strongly and significantly correlated with measures of catchment urbanisation for streams in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria. DSIAR scores across south-eastern Australia bore little relationship to the latitude, longitude or altitude of sampling sites, suggesting that DSIAR is not greatly affected by macro-geographical position. In addition, DSIAR scores did not vary greatly among small-scale hydraulic environments within a site. DSIAR appears to have potential as a broad-scale indicator of human influences on Australian rivers, especially the effects of agricultural and urban land use, and also for impact studies at a local scale. Further evaluation is warranted to test the sensitivity of the index to natural variables such as catchment geology, and to assess its performance in northern, western and inland Australia.
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Rock, Daniel Joseph, and Joachim Franz Hallmayer. "The Seasonal Risk for Deliberate Self-Harm." Crisis 29, no. 4 (July 2008): 191–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910.29.4.191.

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Groups at seasonal risk for deliberate self-harm (DSH) vary according to their geographic location. It is unknown, however, if seasonal risk factors for DSH are associated with place of birth or place of residence as these are confounded in all studies to date. In order to disaggregate place of birth from place of residence we examined general and seasonal risk factors for DSH in three different population birth groups living in Western Australia: Australian Aborigines, Australian born non-Aborigines, and UK migrants. We found Aborigines are at much higher general risk for DSH than non-Aborigines, but are not at seasonal risk, whereas non-Aboriginal Australians and UK migrants are. For UK migrants, this is only found for females. For all groups at seasonal risk this peaks during the austral (southern hemisphere) spring/summer. Furthermore, non-Aboriginal Australians and UK migrants show a consistent pattern of increased case fatality with increasing age. In contrast, case fatality does not increase with age among Australian Aborigines. Overall, despite living in the same environment, the three birth groups show different patterns of seasonal risk for DSH. In particular, the sex difference found between UK migrants and non-Aboriginal Australian birth groups suggests that predisposition toward seasonal risk for DSH is established early in life, but when present this is expressed according to local conditions.
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Lowther, A. D., R. G. Harcourt, and S. D. Goldsworthy. "Regional variation in trophic ecology of adult female Australian sea lions inferred from stable isotopes in whiskers." Wildlife Research 40, no. 4 (2013): 303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wr12181.

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Context The primary selective forces responsible for shaping life-history traits come from the physical and biological environment in which a species resides. Consequently, the limits of a species range may provide a useful measure of adaptive potential to environmental change. The proximity of foraging grounds to terrestrial nursing habitat constrains central-place foragers such as otariid seals in selecting breeding locations. The Australian sea lion (Neophoca cinerea) is an endangered otariid endemic to Australia, whose northern-range extent occurs at a temperate–tropical transition zone on the western coast of Western Australia (WA). Aims Currently, there is a complete absence of data on the foraging ecology of Australian sea lions in WA. We sought to address this critical knowledge gap and provide data on the foraging ecology of adult female Australian sea lions at three isolated breeding colonies in western WA. Methods We used stable-isotope ratios of carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) in the whiskers of pups as proxies to characterise feeding behaviour of 10–28% of all adult female Australian sea lions at each colony. We then compared these geographic data to (1) conspecifics at similar latitude in South Australia (SA) and (2) isotopic data collated from other studies on seabirds that inhabit the region, to place foraging behaviour of adult female Australian sea lions into context. Key results At the southernmost colonies in WA, individual animals were members of one of two distinct isotopic clusters that could be described by differences in δ15N and δ13C values. Individuals at the northernmost colony displayed δ15N values similar to those of seabirds in the same region. Across the study, isotope ratios of adult female Australian sea lions in western WA were between 3‰ and 5‰ lower than those observed at a colony at similar latitude in SA. Conclusions Gross differences in the physical oceanography between WA and SA may in part explain the differences in isotope ratios of individuals between the regions, with lower δ15N and δ13C values in WA probably reflecting the relatively depauperate conditions of the Leeuwin Current. Implications Potential regional differences in trophic structure should be considered when developing appropriate management plans for Australian sea lions and regional variation in the diet of Australian sea lion warrants further investigation.
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Morgan, Raphael, Emily Gifford, Annette Jacobs, and Kate Swain. "Western Australian marine oil pollution risk assessment: identification of protection priorities." APPEA Journal 59, no. 2 (2019): 657. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj18203.

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The Western Australian Department of Transport (DoT) is the hazard management agency (HMA) for marine oil pollution in Western Australia (WA). DoT initiated the WA marine oil pollution risk assessment (WAMOPRA), a detailed assessment of oil spill risk in Western Australian State waters. It comprised two components. The first component evaluated protection priorities of the receiving environment to assess potential consequences of marine oil pollution. The second component assessed the likelihood, size, location and type of marine oil pollution. Protection priority outputs from component one were modelled with spill risk from component two, to give an overall risk profile for the State. For management purposes, State waters were divided into seven zones and smaller shoreline cells (~10 km × ~20 km). Geospatial datasets representing the various receptors identified were collated and grouped into the following five categories: Protected fauna; Protection areas; Cultural heritage; Economic; and Social, amenity and recreation. Using a multi-criteria analysis approach, the spatial data layers for each receptor identified were assigned a ranking from one (very low priority) to five (very high priority) for protection. The effects of both floating and dissolved hydrocarbons were ranked. These rankings were then used to produce a map showing very low to very high priorities of the shoreline cells for each category. The outcome of this project is the largest single assessment of protection priorities (~13000 km of coastline), undertaken across a highly variable coastline, using a standard and repeatable approach that can be applied across Australia.
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Bills, Kym. "Building a world-class Australian decommissioning industry." APPEA Journal 58, no. 2 (2018): 690. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj17154.

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Collaboration in decommissioning offshore infrastructure could save both industry and taxpayers billions of dollars and facilitate new industries and exports for Australia, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. At the end of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant construction boom, Australia must not miss out on this major new opportunity. The 2017 bid for Commonwealth funding to establish a Decommissioning Offshore Infrastructure Cooperative Research Centre (DOI-CRC) involved more than 30 participants and many other collaborators. High-level commitments were made by Chevron, Woodside, Shell, BHP, ExxonMobil, Quadrant, The University of Western Australia, Curtin University, the University of New South Wales, Deakin University, Australian Maritime College, CSIRO and Australian Institute of Marine Science. A Perth-based DOI-CRC was supported by National Energy Resources Australia, National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority and other Australian Government bodies and by the Western Australian Government and its Chief Scientist and agencies but did not receive sufficient support from the CRC Advisory Committee. Meeting decommissioning challenges in the North West Shelf, Bass Strait and the Northern Territory in a timely, robust, scientific, efficient and cost-effective manner that contributes to a sustainable marine environment should draw upon and augment international best practice with local capability and expertise. Good science and innovative engineering are needed to support regulatory approval of options such as ‘rigs to reefs’ and commercial opportunities such as in waste management and expanded fishing and tourism. APPEA and operators wish to maintain DOI-CRC’s momentum and learn from UK research arrangements through funding marine science projects. But we must be much broader if we are to build a sustainable world-class Australian decommissioning industry. In particular, we need to work more closely with state and federal regulators and policymakers and undertake more engineering science research and innovation.
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Brown, Sarah. "Imagining 'environment' in Australian suburbia : an environmental history of the suburban landscapes of Canberra and Perth, 1946-1996." University of Western Australia. School of Humanities, 2009. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2009.0094.

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Australia is a suburban nation. Today, with increasing concern regarding the sustainability of cities, an appreciation of the complexities of Australian suburbia is critical to the debate about urban futures. As a built environment and a cultural phenomenon, the Australian suburbs have inspired considerable scholarly literature. Yet to date, such scholarly work has largely overlooked the changing environmental values and visions of those shaping and residing within suburban landscapes, and the practices through which such values and visions are materialised in the processes of suburban development. Focusing on the post-war suburban landscapes of Canberra and Perth, this thesis centralises the environmental, political and economic forces that have shaped human action to construct suburban spaces, paying particular attention to the extent to which individual understandings and visions of 'environment' have determined the shape and nature of suburban development. Specifically, it examines how those operating within Australia’s suburbs, including planners, developers, builders, landscape designers and residents have imagined the 'environment', and how such imaginaries have shifted in response to varying spatial, temporal and ideological contexts. Tracing the shifting nature of environmental concern throughout the mid-to-late twentieth century, it argues that despite the somewhat unsustainable nature of Australia's suburban landscapes, the planning and development of such landscapes has long been influenced by and has responded to differing understandings of 'environment', which themselves are the product of changing social, political and economic concerns. In doing so, this thesis challenges a number of perceptions concerning Australian suburbs, environmental awareness and sustainability. In particular, it contests the assumption that environmental concern for Australia's suburban development emerged with the urban consolidation debates of the 1980s and 1990s, and analyses a range of environmental sensibilities not often acknowledged in current histories of Australian environmentalism. By examining, for example, how the deterministic and economic concerns of differing planning bodies, along with the aesthetic and ecological concerns of various planners, are intertwined with the housing and domestic lifestyle preferences of suburban homeowners, this history brings to the fore the often conflicting environmental ideas and practices that arise in the course of suburban development, and provides a more nuanced history of the diversity of environmental sensibilities. In sum, this thesis enhances our understandings of the changing nature of environmental concern and illuminates the complex, still largely misunderstood, environmental ideas and practices that arise in the processes of suburban development.
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Marshall, Anne. "Ngaparti-ngaparti ecologies of performance in Central Australia : comparative studies in the ecologies of Aboriginal-Australian and European-Australian performances with specific focus on the relationship of context, place, physical environment, and personal experience. /." View thesis, 2001. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20040804.155726/index.html.

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Burkett, Danny, and danny burkett@deakin edu au. "Nutrient contribution to hyper-eutrophic wetlands in Perth, Western Australia." Deakin University. School of Life and Environmental Sciences, 2005. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20071115.082506.

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This thesis investigates nutrient contribution to six hyper-eutrophic lakes located within close proximity of each other on the Swan Coastal Plain and 20 kilometres south of the Perth Central Business District, Western Australia. The lakes are located within a mixed land use setting and are under the management of a number of state and local government departments and organisations. These are a number of other lakes on the Swan Coastal Plain for which the majority are less than 3 metres in depth and considered as an expression of the groundwater as their base is below the regional groundwater table throughout most of the year. The limited amount of water quality data available for these six lakes and the surface water and groundwater flowing into them has restricted a thorough understanding of the processes influencing the water quality of the lakes. Various private and public companies and organisations have undertaken studies on some of the individual wetlands and there is a wide difference in scientific opinion as to the major source of the nutrients to those wetlands. These previous studies failed to consider regional surface water and groundwater effects on the nutrient fluxes and they predominantly only investigated single wetland systems. This study attempts for the first time to investigate the regional contribution of nutrients to this system of wetlands existing on the Swan Coastal plain. As such, it also includes new research on the nutrient contribution to some of the remaining wetlands. The research findings indicate that the lake sediments represent a considerable store of nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus). These sediments in turn control the nutrient status of the lake's water column. Surface water is found to contribute on an event-basis load of nutrients to the lakes whilst the groundwater surprisingly appears to contribute a comparatively low input of nutrients but governs the water depth. Analysis of the regional groundwater shows efficient denitrifying abilities as a result of denitrifying bacteria and the transport is localised. Management recommendations for the remediation of the social and environmental value of the lakes include treatment of the lake’s sediments via chemical bonding or atmospheric oxidation; utilising the regional groundwater’s denitrifying abilities to ‘treat’ the surface water via infiltration basins; and investigating the merits of managed or artificial aquifer recharge (MAR).
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Finnegan, Anthony Maurice. "Teamwork in Australian middle management : a study to investigate attitude of team members, team member effectiveness perception and team environment /." View thesis, 2002. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20031223.095006/index.html.

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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Western Sydney, 2002.
"Thesis submitted ... in fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the College of Law and Business, University of Western Sydney, NSW, Australia" Bibliography : leaves 186-196.
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McComas, Magers Robyn. "Interactions in the space of one tree /." View thesis View thesis, 2002. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030331.152733/index.html.

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Borger, Catherine. "The biology and ecology of Salsola australis R.Br. (Chenopodiaceae) in southwest Australian cropping systems." University of Western Australia. School of Plant Biology, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0062.

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Salsola australis is an introduced weed of crop and pasture systems in the Western Australian broad acre cropping and pasture region (wheat-belt). This thesis investigated the classification, biology and ecology of the genus Salsola in southwest Australia, as well as modelling the effectiveness of possible weed control practices. Prior to this research, S. tragus was the only recognised species of the Salsola genus within Australia. However, genetic analysis revealed that four genetically distinct putative taxa of the genus Salsola were found in southwest Australia, none of which were S. tragus. The taxa that is the most prevalent agricultural weed was classified as S. australis, but the other three putative taxa could not be matched to recognised species. All four taxa were diploid (2n = 18), as opposed to tetraploid (2n = 36) S. tragus. Within the agricultural system of southwest Australia, S. australis plants established throughout the year, although the majority of seed production occurred in late summer and autumn. Total seed production (138-7734 seeds per plant) and seed viability (7.6-62.8%) of S. australis were lower than that reported for other agricultural weed species of the Salsola genus. Seed dispersal occurred when the senesced plants broke free of their root system to become mobile. Wind driven plants travelled and shed seed over distances of 1.6 to 1247.2 m. Movement of approximately half the plants was restricted to less than 100 m by entanglement with other S. australis plants within the stand. Some seed was retained on the senesced plants, but the germinability of this seed fell to less than 2% in the two month period following plant senescence (i.e. a decline of 79%). Once seed shed into the soil seed bank, anywhere from 32.3 to 80.7% of the viable seeds germinated in the year following seed production, with the rest remaining dormant or degrading. A model of the life cycle of S. australis based on the population ecology data indicated that the dormant seed bank had very little effect on annual seedling recruitment, but seed dispersal from neighbouring populations had a large impact on population growth rate. Therefore, the most successful weed control measures were those that restricted seed dispersal from neighbouring populations, or those that were applied to all populations in the region rather than to a single population. Weed control techniques applied to a single population, without reducing seed dispersal, could not reduce population size.
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Wood, Lisa Jane. "Social capital, neighbourhood environments and health : development of measurement tools and exploration of links through qualitative and quantitative research." University of Western Australia. School of Population Health, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2006.0111.

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[Truncated abstract] BACKGROUND This thesis explored the relationship between social capital, sense of community and mental health and wellbeing; and factors that may influence these within the environments in which people live. Area variations in health are well documented and are mirrored in emerging evidence of geographic and neighbourhood variations in social capital. Little is known, however, about the specific facets of the impact of local physical environment on social capital; or about the mechanisms by which these are linked with each other, and with health determinants and outcomes. Despite the recent proliferation of social capital literature and growing research interest within the public health realm, its relationship to mental health and protective factors for mental health have also been relatively unexplored. AIMS The overall aim of this thesis was to explore the potential associations between social capital, health and mental health, and neighbourhood environments. In particular, the thesis considered whether the physical attributes and street network design of neighbourhoods are associated with social capital or particular dimensions of the social capital construct. It also examined the relationship between social capital and demographic and residency factors and pet ownership ... CONCLUSION The combined use of qualitative and quantitative research is a distinguishing feature of this study, and the triangulation of these data has a unique contribution to make to the social capital literature. Studies concerned with the measurement of social capital to date have tended to focus on dimensions pertaining to people’s involvement, perceptions and relationship with others and their community. While these constructs provide insight into what comprises social capital, it is clear that each is in turn influenced by a range of other factors. Elucidating what fosters trust and neighbourly interactions in one community and not in another, and by what mechanisms, is one of many research questions unanswered in the published literature to date. The consideration of measures of social capital that relate to the physical environment is therefore of relevance to the growing research and public policy interest in identifying what might build or restore social capital in communities.
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Beesley, Leah. "Environmental stability : its role in structuring fish communities and life history strategies in the Fortescue River, Western Australia /." Connect to this title, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2006.0129.

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Baudains, Catherine Mary. "Environmental education in the workplace : inducing voluntary transport behaviour change to decrease single occupant vehicle trips by commuters into the Perth CBD." Access via Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2003. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browser/view/adt-MU20040310.121357.

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Whitehead, Ayesha L. "The effects of isolation and environmental heterogeneity on intraspecific variation in Calamoecia clitellata, a salt lake-inhabiting copepod." University of Western Australia. School of Animal Biology, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2006.0092.

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[Truncated abstract] This study focussed on how isolation and environmental heterogeneity in salt lakes has influenced intraspecific variation in the calanoid copepod Calamoecia clitellata. Calamoecia clitellata relies on passive vectors for dispersal, and this, coupled with the insular nature of salt lakes, may promote genetic divergence at a molecular level. When contrasting environments are involved, genetic divergence may also occur at the life history level, possibly due to local adaptation. I examined the distribution of genetic variation among 14 populations in Western Australia using molecular genetic markers, and examined variation in life history traits among contrasting environments. To ascertain how isolation had influenced molecular genetic variation, I determined population genetic structure and used a phylogeographic approach to infer the impact of historical events. Environmentally induced variation was also evident in the field, with a switch from subitaneous egg production to resting egg production coinciding with changing environmental conditions. It is proposed that plasticity in life history traits has evolved in response to temporal environmental heterogeneity … It can be concluded that isolation in salt lakes in Western Australia has influenced molecular and phenotypic variation in C. clitellata in contrasting ways. At the molecular level, contemporary and historical isolation have promoted genetic divergence of populations, yet when coupled with environmental heterogeneity, marked phenotype plasticity has arisen. This study raises questions as to whether phenotype plasticity is a widespread phenomena in zooplankton found in temporary saline waters and an adaptive strategy to tolerate marked temporal environmental heterogeneity
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Books on the topic "Western Australian environment"

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Imagined country: Environment, culture, and society. Syracuse, N.Y: Syracuse University Press, 2005.

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Short, John R. Imagined country: Environment, culture, and society. London: Routledge, 1991.

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Gribble, Nicola. Environmental management systems: A Western Australian perspective. Perth, Western Australia: School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Murdoch University, 1996.

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Western Australia. Office of the Auditor General. Fish for the future?: Fisheries management in Western Australia. West Perth, W.A: Auditor General, 1999.

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Brand, Susan. A greenprint for environmental education projects in Western Australia highschools. Perth, W.A: School of Environmental Science, Murdoch University, 1997.

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Charles Darwin in Western Australia: A young scientist's perception of an environment. Nedlands, W.A: University of Western Australia Press, 1985.

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Playford, Phillip E. Subterranean biotas in Western Australia: Report for the Environmental Protection Authority. Western Australia: Environmental Protection Authority, 2001.

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Logan, Brian W. The MacLeod evaporite basin, western Australia: Holocene environments, sediments and geological evolution. Tulsa, Okla, U.S.A: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1987.

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Patricia, Crawford. Contested country: A history of the Northcliffe area, Western Australia. Nedlands, W.A: University of Western Australia Press, 2003.

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Palaeo-environmental change and the persistence of human occupation in south-western Australian forests. Oxford, England: Archaeopress, 2004.

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Book chapters on the topic "Western Australian environment"

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Tunbridge, Dorothy. "Environment and Nature: Australian Aboriginal People." In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, 1663–67. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7747-7_8572.

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Collins, Jock, Branka Krivokapic-Skoko, Kirrily Jordan, Hurriyet Babacan, and Narayan Gopalkrishnan. "Immigrant Minorities and the Built Environment in Western Australia." In Cosmopolitan Place Making in Australia, 219–383. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8041-3_4.

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Chandler, Richard E., Bryson C. Bates, and Stephen P. Charles. "Rainfall Trends in Southwest Western Australia." In Statistical Methods for Trend Detection and Analysis in the Environmental Sciences, 283–306. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119991571.ch8.

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Roche, Charles, and Gavin Mudd. "An Overview of Mining and the Environment in Western Australia." In Resource Curse or Cure ?, 179–94. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-53873-5_12.

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Ghadim, Amir K. Abadi, and David J. Pannell. "Risk Attitudes and Risk Perceptions of Crop Producers in Western Australia." In Risk Management and the Environment: Agriculture in Perspective, 113–33. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2915-4_8.

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Bodorkos, Simon, and Mike Sandiford. "Thermal and mechanical controls on the evolution of archean crustal deformation: Examples from Western Australia." In Archean Geodynamics and Environments, 131–47. Washington, D. C.: American Geophysical Union, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/164gm10.

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Kennish, Penelope, and Robert F. Cavanagh. "The Engagement in Classroom Learning of Year 10 and 11 Western Australian Students." In Applications of Rasch Measurement in Learning Environments Research, 281–300. Rotterdam: SensePublishers, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-493-5_13.

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Hickey, Robert J., Grant B. Pearson, and Theunis Piersma. "Advances in Large-Scale Mudflat Surveying: The Roebuck Bay and Eighty Mile Beach, Western Australia Examples." In Environmental Management and Governance, 275–89. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06305-8_11.

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Condello, Annette. "Viable Pearls and Seashells: Marine Culture and Sustainable Luxury in Broome, Western Australia." In Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes, 55–74. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2454-4_4.

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Bloom, L. M., and D. J. Kentwell. "A Geostatistical Analysis of Cropped and Uncropped Soil from the Jimperding Brook Catchment of Western Australia." In geoENV II — Geostatistics for Environmental Applications, 369–79. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9297-0_31.

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Conference papers on the topic "Western Australian environment"

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Mansour, Alaa M., Brian J. Gordon, Qi Ling, and Qiang Shen. "TLP Survivability Against Progressive Failure of Tendon and Foundation Systems in Offshore Western Australian Harsh Environment." In ASME 2013 32nd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2013-11468.

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In this paper the design robustness of Tension Leg Platform (TLP) tendon and tendon foundation systems of a TLP that is located in offshore Western Australia is investigated. A case study of a TLP that is self-stable (without tendons) has been considered. The study involves the numerical simulation of progressive failure of tendons in cyclonic events. The TLP response during the transition from a restrained TLP with all tendons to the free-floating condition has been numerically simulated. The numerical results from this simulation have been verified against physical model test measurements. The numerical simulation is repeated for a TLP with an optimized hull design that does not maintain stability when all tendons fail. Cost versus benefit in these two cases is quantified and compared. The progressive failure of the TLP Gravity Base Foundation (GBF) system has also been investigated in this paper. One of the potential failure modes for this type of foundation is the loss of suction underneath the foundation. Increasing the amount of solid ballast in the GBF increases the net downward load on the soil and reduces the reliance on the soil suction. Numerical simulations of the progressive loss of suction are performed for two cases; 1) slightly over designed foundation to include extra ballast and 2) optimized foundation design that is highly rely on the soil suction. Again, cost versus benefit in these two cases is presented. The paper provides clear insights supported by calculations and model tests for proposed design robustness that could be built in a TLP design at a relatively small additional cost to address uncertainties associated with designing TLP in offshore Western Australian harsh environment region.
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Cobby, G. "Review of Environmental Performance Bonds in Western Australia." In First International Seminar on Mine Closure. Australian Centre for Geomechanics, Perth, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.36487/acg_repo/605_cobby.

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van der Sterren, M., G. R. Dennis, J. Chuck, and A. Rahman. "Rainwater Tank Water Quality Testing in Western Sydney Australia." In World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2010. Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/41114(371)412.

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Wilkes, Paul G., Brett D. Harris, and Anton Kepic. "Geophysical Investigations in Rural Towns of Western Australia." In Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems 2006. Environment and Engineering Geophysical Society, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.4133/1.2923722.

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G. Wilkes, Paul, Brett D. Harris, and Anton Kepic. "GEOPHYSICAL INVESTIGATIONS IN RURAL TOWNS OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA." In 19th EEGS Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems. European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609-pdb.181.7.

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Coghlan, P. W. "The Impact of the Safety Case Regime in Offshore Western Australia." In SPE Health, Safety and Environment in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Conference. Society of Petroleum Engineers, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/27099-ms.

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de Lestang, S., L. M. Bellchambers, N. Caputi, A. W. Thomson, M. B. Pember, D. J. Johnston, and D. C. Harris. "Stock-Recruitment-Environment Relationship in a Portunus pelagicus Fishery in Western Australia." In Biology and Management of Exploited Crab Populations under Climate Change. Alaska Sea Grant, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.4027/bmecpcc.2010.26.

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Gilbert, David R. "The Western Australia Goldfields Water Supply: An International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark." In World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2013. Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/9780784412947.006.

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van der Sterren, M., A. Rahman, and S. Shrestha. "Investigation into Grated Drainage System: A Case Study in Western Sydney, Australia." In World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2007. Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/40927(243)571.

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Urosevic, M., A. Bona, S. Ziramov, R. Pevzner, K. Tertyshnikov, R. Martin, J. Dwyer, D. Felding, C. Guarin, and A. Foley. "Seismic Exploration of Mineral Resources in Western Australia with Distribute Acoustic Sensing." In 25th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics. European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.201902377.

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Reports on the topic "Western Australian environment"

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Picard, Kim, Scott L. Nichol, Riko Hashimoto, Andrew Carroll, George Bernadel, Leonie Jones, Justy Siwabessy, et al. Seabed environments and shallow geology of the Leveque Shelf, Browse Basin, Western Australia. Geoscience Australia, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.11636/record.2014.010.

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Nicholas, W. A., A. G. Carroll, L. Radke, M. Tran, F. J. F. Howard, R. Przeslawski, J. Chen, P. J. W. Siwabessy,, and S. L. Nichol. Seabed Environments and Shallow Geology of the Leveque Shelf, Browse Basin, Western Australia: GA0340 - Interpretative report. Geoscience Australia, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.11636/record.2016.018.

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