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The gifted knight, Sir Robert Garran, G.C.M.G., Q.C.: first Commonwealth public servant, poet, scholar and lawyer »
Publication date: 1983
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3049 1885_115100.jpg ANU Press The gifted knight, Sir Robert Garran, G.C.M.G., Q.C.: first Commonwealth public servant, poet, scholar and lawyer Thursday, 18 August, 1983 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Francis, Noel
Grammatical analysis of the Lao ch'i-ta with an English translation of the Chinese text »
Publication date: 1983
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3419 1885_114793.jpg ANU Press Grammatical analysis of the Lao ch'i-ta with an English translation of the Chinese text Thursday, 18 August, 1983 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Dyer, Svetlana Rimsky-Korsakoff
Biographical register of the New South Wales Parliament 1856-1901 »
Publication date: 1983
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3409 1885_114996.jpg ANU Press Biographical register of the New South Wales Parliament 1856-1901 Thursday, 18 August, 1983 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Connolly, C. N
Youth, transition, and social research »
Publication date: 1983
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/2715 1885_114731.jpg ANU Press Youth, transition, and social research Thursday, 18 August, 1983 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services
Bigger or smaller government?: papers from the sixth Symposium of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 1982 »
Publication date: 1983
Papers from the sixth symposium of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 1982.
Hospital funding »
Publication date: 1983
This book reviews the basis of hospital funding in Australia. In addition to two background papers by the Commonwealth Treasury and Department of Health, and the Commonwealth Grants Commission, respectively, there are papers on Canada's system of hospital funding; on why Queensland's per capita hospital costs are so low and on why Western Australia's costs are so high, on factors affecting costs and efficiency in hospital administration; on hospital charges and revenue-raising capacity; on the likely future course of health funding; and on alternative methods of providing and financing hospital services, including greater reliance on the market in substitution for direct government provision. The authors include senior Treasury officers, hospital administrators and health economists.
Climate of Papua New Guinea »
Publication date: 1983
This book presents the first comprehensive study of the climate of Papua New Guinea. It is based on an exhaustive analysis and interpretation of the basic meteorological data from the country's extensive recording station network, a network which resulted from the need for accurate weather information for the operation of widespread airstrips in an otherwise inaccessible interior. The data collected made it possible to undertake a climatic survey and analysis for Papua New Guinea which is perhaps unique in its spatial extent and time span for a less developed country. The analysis has revealed the inadequacy of currently held theories of the major climatic controls operating in the region for explaining the various climatic patterns found there. The first chapters present a treatment of regional climatic controls which is in part entirely new. This explanation is then used as the basis for the succeeding chapters on specific climatic elements, the water balance and climatic classification. Papua New Guinea is a land of many and varied cultures, each with its own traditional agricultural practices which have often evolved in response to climatic factors. Climate is also of major importance in planning and implementing many resource development projects such as the construction of roads and of hydro-electric power stations. For these reasons this book is directed to agriculturalists, engineers, planners and students as well as to professional meteorologists.
The problem of command in the Australian defence force environment »
Publication date: 1983
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/2967 1885_114927.jpg ANU Press The problem of command in the Australian defence force environment Thursday, 18 August, 1983 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Hartnell, Geoffrey
Tourism and underdevelopment in Fiji »
Publication date: 1983
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3391 1885_115181.jpg ANU Press Tourism and underdevelopment in Fiji Thursday, 18 August, 1983 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Britton, Stephen G
Soils of Papua New Guinea »
Publication date: 1983
The aim of this book is to bring together and summarise our present knowledge of the soils of Papua New Guinea. Although much of it is based on data collected during CSIRO's land resource surveys, the book also attempts to incorporate the widely scattered and relatively inaccessible information gathered by other researchers. The US Department of Agriculture's soil taxonomy classification has been used, since it is now internationally widely accepted and makes the data accessible to scientists working in other parts of the tropics. Eight orders, twenty-six suborders and sixty-one great soil groups have been identified in Papua New Guinea. Following an introductory section on the environment and a discussion on soil classification and mapping, the next chapters describe the soils at great soil group level according to the eight orders (Entisols, Elistosols, Inceptisols, Vertisols, Mollisols, Alfisols, Ultisols, and Oxisols). For each great group separate sections on morphology, genesis, occurrence, association, fertility, and land use are given. The second part of the book discusses soil related subjects, attempting as far as possible to synthesise the available information. A review of the various land inventory methods, including land system surveys is given, and soil erosion and conservation are discussed, as is the possible application of the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) to Papua New Guinea conditions. Type, depth, rate and the assessment of the degree of weathering are dealt with, together with some examples from Papua New Guinea. The author examines the content of primary nutrients (N, P and K) in some typical great soil groups and trace element deficiencies in tree crops. A review of soil microrelief features at various locations in Papua New Guinea is given, while the last chapter briefly examines traditional food crop agriculture, especially in relation to soil properties and crop yield declines under cultivation.