A social-ecological resilience project to reduce the risk of pesticide in NSW rivers, using the Hawkesbury Nepean (H-N) River as a case-study

Project Member(s): Plant, R., Gothe, J., Lim, R., Walker, J.

Start year: 2009

Publications:

Plant, R, Walker, JR, Rayburg, SC, Gothe, J & Leung, T 2012, 'The wild life of pesticides: Urban agriculture, institutional responsibility, and the future of biodiversity in Sydney's Hawkesbury-Nepean River', Australian Geographer, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 75-91.
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Plant, R, Walker, JR, Rayburg, SC, Gothe, J, Leung, TM, Phyu, YL & Lim, RP 2011, 'The 'Social Life of Pesticides': How organised irresponsibility in the Greater Sydney Basin threatens the biodiversity of the Hawkesbury-Nepean River', Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG) Conference Wollongong 2011, Wollongong, NSW.

FOR Codes: Freshwater Ecology, Humanities and Social Sciences Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl. Economics, Business and Management), Environmental Impact Assessment, Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Land Management, Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity, Ecosystem Assessment and Management of Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Environments