Cover

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Foreword

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of contributors

Section 1 Natural history and ecology of the Lake Eyre Basin

1 The Lake Eyre Basin – one of the world's great desert river systems

2 Water – where, when, how much? Challenges in understanding and managing flow in rivers of the Lake Eyre Basin

3 Fish distribution, status and threats in the rivers and springs of the Queensland Lake Eyre Basin

4 Natural flows drive the 'boom and bust' ecology of fish in Cooper Creek, an arid-zone floodplain river

5 Turtles of Cooper Creek – life in the slow lane

6 Developing the desert – potential effects on wildlife

Section 2 Cultural and socio-economic dimensions of the rivers

7 Connecting the champions of the Lake Eyre Basin rivers

8 Looking after the rivers – a view from nearly 50 000 years of experience

9 Caring for our sacred waterways – learning from our past

10 River sustainability – essential for the livelihoods of landholders

11 Clean green beef – the importance of free-flowing rivers in the Lake Eyre Basin

12 A life living between a river and a creek

13 Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre – not just a wildlife paradise but also an economic lifeline

14 When our rivers ran dry – 30 years of water resource development in the Murray–Darling Basin

15 A river and a livelihood – all but lost in a decade

16 Making a living from the Macquarie Marshes – coping with decisions upstream

17 'Once more into the breach, dear friends …' – the ongoing battle for the Cooper

18 River and wetland health in the Lake Eyre Basin – an economic perspective

19 Mining and the Lake Eyre Basin environment – past, present and possible futures

Section 3 Looking after the rivers

20 Sustainable management of the Lake Eyre Basin rivers – regulate, educate or open the gate?

21 Water governance in Queensland – implications for Wild Rivers declarations in the Lake Eyre Basin

22 Sustainability for the rivers of the Lake Eyre Basin

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