Formal Scientific Research into farm forestry
Formal scientific research relevant to farm
forestry in Australia is undertaken by many different organizations
including universities, national research and development
corporations, government laboratories, private industry, public
sector agencies, CSIRO and state agencies. University researchers
commonly involve postgraduate students in research projects
related to forestry and farming.
Cooperative Research Centres, generally known
as CRCs, bring together researchers from a range of research
organisations in long-term collaborative arrangements that
support research and development and education activities
that achieve real outcomes of national economic and social
significance.
Internationally there are a number of research
groups that may be of interest to Australian farm foresters
including those in New Zealand and South Africa.
Major research organisations
JVAP and ANU Forestry Farm Forestry
and Agroforestry Reference Library
The Farm
Forestry and Agroforestry Reference Library is a project
developed by the Joint
Venture Agroforestry Program (JVAP)
and ANU
Forestry. The 'reference library' is a free downloadable
database of farm forestry and agroforestry research.
ANU Forestry: http://sres.anu.edu.au/associated/reslib
Joint Venture Agroforestry Program: http://www.rirdc.gov.au/programs/aft.html
National research and development
corporations
Joint Venture Agroforestry Program: http://www.rirdc.gov.au/programs/aft.html
Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation: http://www.rirdc.gov.au/
Forest and Wood Products Research and Development Corporation:
http://www.fwprdc.org.au/
Land and Water Australia: http://www.lwrrdc.gov.au/
Higher Education Institutions in Australia
http://www.dest.gov.au/highered/ausunis.htm
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/education/uni_aus.html
CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific
and Industrial Research Organisation
CSIRO Forestry
and Forest Products and their associated
Plantations
and Farm Forestry Program
Australian
Tree Seed Centre
Cooperative Research Centres
CRC for
Australian Weed Management
CRC
for Biological Control of Pest Animals
CRC
for Catchment Hydrology
CRC
for Coastal Zone, Estuary and Waterway Management
CRC
for Conservation and Management of Marsupials
CRC
for Freshwater Ecology
CRC
for Greenhouse Accounting
CRC for
Plant-based Management of Dryland Salinity
CRC for
Sustainable Tourism
CRC
for Tropical Rainforest Ecology and Management
CRC for
Tropical Savannas Management
CRC
for Sustainable Production Forestry
CRC
for Tropical Plant Protection
CRC
for Innovative Wood Manufacturing
State based research organisations
Many of the states support their own forestry
or land management research groups.
Victoria
Centre
for Land Protection Research (CLPR)
Keith
Turnbull Research Institute (KTRI) Pest Plant Management
Institute
of Sustainable Irrigated Agriculture - Tatura & Kyabram
Management
Forest
Science Centre (FSC) Farm Forestry, Management and Utilisation
of Plantation Forests
Arthur Rylah Institute (ARI)
Queensland
Forestry research in DPI -
www.dpi.qld.gov.au/forestryresearch
New South Wales
State Forests - www.forest.nsw.gov.au/research
Tasmania
Forests Tasmania - www.forestrytas.com.au/forestrytas/pages/research.html
Western Australia
Department of Conservation and
Land Management - www.calm.wa.gov.au/science
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