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Landuse Planning and Urban Salinity
Land use planning and thinking strategically can play an important role in minimising the economic, environmental and social impacts of the interactions between development and... -
Building in a Saline Environment
Concentrated salts can have an impact on the durability of some building materials. -
Book 4 Dryland Salinity: Productive Use of Saline Land and Water
Managing dryland salinity successfully requires treatment of both the causes and the symptoms.Treatment of the symptoms of salinity in a local area requires a targeted and site... -
Book 3 Dryland Salinity: Investigating and Assessment Techniques
Studying the distribution and concentration of salt in soil across a saline outbreak site helps determine limitations affecting management. -
Book 2 Dryland Salinity: Identifying Saline Sites
Learning to identify and assess the extent of dryland salinity is important for the management of affected areas. Information collected through this process may be used to... -
Book 1 Dryland Salinity: The Basics
It is possible to gain a much better understanding of the dryland salinity process by examining the individual factors that contribute to it. Through understanding each... -
Broad Scale Resources for Urban Salinity Assessment
Information on salinity hazard is valuable for the management of existing and future buildings and infrastructure. It helps to ensure costly problems are avoided and, in areas... -
Site investigations for urban salinity
Concentrations of salt and certain kinds of salt can affect plant growth, soil chemistry and structure as well as the lifespan of materials such as bitumen, concrete, masonry... -
Indicators of Urban Salinity
Care must be taken when attempting to diagnose urban salinity from any one symptom as there may be other explanations other than urban salinity. This pamphlet has attempted to... -
Roads and Salinity
Dissolved salts may crystallise and exert pressure within the road fabric. -
Waterwise Parks and Gardens
By adopting ‘waterwise’ practices we may decrease the incidence and severity of urban salinity and save local government millions of dollars. -
Salinity Indicator Plants
A salinity indicator is a sign or symptom that suggests an area is experiencing the impacts of salinity. -
Groundwater Basics for Understanding Urban Salinity
The water flowing into the excavation is termed groundwater. Continue digging and the water in the pores will continue flowing into the hole until it reaches a constant level.... -
Local Government Salinity Initiative – Introduction to Urban Salinity
Urban salinity occurs in areas where humans have changed natural ecosystems and affected the movement and storage of salts and water in the environment.
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