Land surface rehabilitation research in Antarctica
Ice-free ground surfaces in the Australian Antarctic Territory are sensitive to damage by artificial disturbance. Natural processes appear generally inadequate to heal the resulting scars over human time scales and substantial ongoing environmental impacts may accrue where melting of subsurface perm...
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ftunivtasmania:oai:eprints.utas.edu.au:10094 2023-05-15T13:36:47+02:00 Land surface rehabilitation research in Antarctica Kiernan, K McConnell, A 2001 application/pdf https://eprints.utas.edu.au/10094/ https://eprints.utas.edu.au/10094/1/Land_surface.pdf http://linneansocietynsw.org.au/recvol.html en eng https://eprints.utas.edu.au/10094/1/Land_surface.pdf Kiernan, K and McConnell, A 2001 , 'Land surface rehabilitation research in Antarctica' , Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, vol. 123 , pp. 101-118 . cc_utas Antarctica Vestfold Hills environmental impact geoenvironment geoconservation land rehabilitation Article PeerReviewed 2001 ftunivtasmania 2020-05-30T07:23:50Z Ice-free ground surfaces in the Australian Antarctic Territory are sensitive to damage by artificial disturbance. Natural processes appear generally inadequate to heal the resulting scars over human time scales and substantial ongoing environmental impacts may accrue where melting of subsurface permafrost is triggered. Studies of some rehabilitation projects at sites where significant ground disturbance had been caused during geoscientific research indicate that although specific site conditions are critical to the approach taken, environmental harm can be reduced provided maximum advantage is taken of the opportunities to minimise and manage impact at each of the project design, environmental review, site selection, operational and rehabilitation phases. These sites provide a useful analogy for larger disturbances caused by infrastructure development. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Ice permafrost University of Tasmania: UTas ePrints Antarctic Australian Antarctic Territory Vestfold Vestfold Hills |
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Ice-free ground surfaces in the Australian Antarctic Territory are sensitive to damage by artificial disturbance. Natural processes appear generally inadequate to heal the resulting scars over human time scales and substantial ongoing environmental impacts may accrue where melting of subsurface permafrost is triggered. Studies of some rehabilitation projects at sites where significant ground disturbance had been caused during geoscientific research indicate that although specific site conditions are critical to the approach taken, environmental harm can be reduced provided maximum advantage is taken of the opportunities to minimise and manage impact at each of the project design, environmental review, site selection, operational and rehabilitation phases. These sites provide a useful analogy for larger disturbances caused by infrastructure development. |
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Land surface rehabilitation research in Antarctica |
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https://eprints.utas.edu.au/10094/1/Land_surface.pdf Kiernan, K and McConnell, A 2001 , 'Land surface rehabilitation research in Antarctica' , Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, vol. 123 , pp. 101-118 . |
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