Soils of the Ivanhoe Plain, East Kimberley, Western Australia

The Ivanhoe Plain was divided into two geomorphic provinces. The principal difference between the provinces is the time during which pedogenesis occurred. The crcking clay soils of the northern province are generally more highly leached than their younger counterparts in the southern province. Sixteen land units are identified as distinct from soil units. These units give cognizance to vegetation and topographical features as well as soils

Innocent Frauds Meet Goodhart’s Law in Monetary Policy

This paper discusses recent UK monetary policies as instances of Galbraith’s ‘innocent frauds’, including the idea that money is a thing rather than a relationship, the fallacy of composition that what is possible for one bank is possible for all banks, and the belief that the money supply can be controlled by reserves management. The origins of the idea of QE, and its defense when it was applied in Britain, are analysed through this lens. An empirical analysis of the effect of reserves on lending is conducted; we do not find evidence that QE ‘worked’ either by a direct effect on money spending, or through an equity market effect. These findings are placed in a historical context in a comparison with earlier money control experiments in the UK

Land systems of the southern Gulf region, Northern Territory

1. Introduction -- 2. The Land systems -- 3. Geology and Geomorphology -- 4. Soils -- 5. Vegetation -- 6. Land capability and susceptibility.Bibliography: p. 128-130.Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT

Land systems of the Roper River catchment, Northern Territory

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Soils of the Ivanhoe Plain, East Kimberley, Western Australia

The Ivanhoe Plain was divided into two geomorphic provinces. The principal difference between the provinces is the time during which pedogenesis occurred. The crcking clay soils of the northern province are generally more highly leached than their younger counterparts in the southern province. Sixteen land units are identified as distinct from soil units. These units give cognizance to vegetation and topographical features as well as soils

Environmental flows from dams:the water framework directive

The Water Framework Directive (WFD) provides a template for sustainable water management across Europe. The WFD requires the development of procedures to ensure the appropriate mitigation of anthropogenic impacts on river ecosystems resulting from water abstraction and impoundments. It is widely acknowledged that alterations to the flow regime impacts on riverine ecosystems. As a result hydromorphology, which includes the hydrological regime, is embedded within the WFD as a supporting element to achieve Good Ecological Status (GES). Environmental flow releases from impoundments, such as reservoir dams, will need to be implemented to mitigate impacts caused by their construction and operation. This paper outlines the process involved in the analysis of available scientific information and the development of guidance criteria for the setting of environmental flow release regimes for UK rivers. The paper describes two methods for implementation of the WFD for rivers subject to impoundments developed by round table expert knowledge and discussions, supported by available data. First, a method for preliminary assessment of a water body to determine if it is likely to fail to achieve Good Ecological Status because of changes to the flow regime (indexed by simple flow regime statistics) in systems where appropriate biological assessment methods are limited or currently unavailable. Second, a method for defining an environmental flow regime release based on the requirements of riverine ecological communities and indicator organisms for basic elements (building blocks) of the natural flow regime