Most influential literature

ON THE STATE OF THE WORLD
AND THE CASE FOR CHANGE

Australian Bureau of Meteorology. Annual Climate Reports. Available online.

Rockström, J., W. Steffen, K. Noone, Å. Persson, F. S. Chapin, III, E. Lambin, T. M. Lenton, M. Scheffer, C. Folke, H. Schellnhuber, B. Nykvist, C. A. De Wit, T. Hughes, S. van der Leeuw, H. Rodhe, S. Sörlin, P. K. Snyder, R. Costanza, U. Svedin, M. Falkenmark, L. Karlberg, R. W. Corell, V. J. Fabry, J. Hansen, B. Walker, D. Liverman, K. Richardson, P. Crutzen, & Foley, J. (2009). Planetary boundaries: exploring the safe operating space for humanity. Ecology and Society 14, 32. Available online. Additional information is available on the website of the Stockholm Resilience Centre.

Steffen, W., Broadgate, W., Deutsch, L, Gaffney, O. & Ludwig, C. (2015). The trajectory of the Anthropocene: The Great Acceleration. The Anthropocene Review 2, 81-98. See charts and other information online.

Williams, K.J., Prober, S.M., Harwood, T.D., Doerr, V.A.J., Jeanneret, T., Manion, G., & Ferrier, S. (2014). Implications of climate change for biodiversity: a community-level modelling approach, CSIRO Land and Water Flagship, Canberra. Available at: www.AdaptNRM.org. ISBN 978-1-4863-0479-0. See other resources available online.

 On VALUING NATURE IN ALL ITS FORMS

Hobbs, Richard J., Higgs, Eric S. & Hall, Carol M. (2013). Novel Ecosystems: Intervening in the New Ecological World Order. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Hobbs, Richard J., Hallett, Lauren M., Ehrlich, Paul R. & Mooney, Harold A. (2011). Intervention Ecology: Applying Ecological Science in the Twenty-first Century. Bioscience 61, 442-450.

ON THE IMPORTANCE OF PROTECTED AREAS

Taylor M. & Figgis P. (eds) (2007). Protected Areas: Buffering nature against climate change. Proceedings of a WWF and IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas symposium, 18-19 June 2007, Canberra. WWF Australia, Sydney.

ON HOW WE MAKE DECISIONS

Gorddard, Russell, Colloff, Matthew J., Wise, Russell M, Ware, Dan & Dunlop, Michael (2016). Values, rules and knowledge: Adaptation as change in a decision context. Environmental Science & Policy 57, 60-69. Summary available here.

ON THE NEED TO IMPROVE SECTOR RESILIENCE

Hobbs, Richard J. (2013). Grieving for the Past and Hoping for the Future: Balancing Polarizing Perspectives in Conservation and Restoration. Restoration Ecology 21, 145-148. Available (abstract only) here.

Morton, Steve R. (2016). On pessimism in Australian ecology. Austral Ecology Early View (online – abstract only).

ON THE NEED TO TAKE LEARNING SERIOUSLY

Allan, Catherine & Stankey, George H. (2009). Adaptive Environmental Management: A Practitioner’s Guide. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood

Lindenmeyer, D., Likens, G.E. (2010). Effective Ecological Monitoring. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Victori.