The campaign to eradicate the papaya fruit fly from north Queensland has been widely acknowledged by international scientists as a significant technical achievement that equals any similar control program world-wide. Fruit Fly Fighters is a highly readable and practical account of the whole campaign from 1995 when the papaya fruit fly was first discovered until 1999 when eradication was formally declared. Key aspects covered include: The emergency response; Campaign management; The growers' perspective; Monitoring, eradication, data management; quarantine, traffic control points; market access for fruit from infected areas; public relations; and research and development. The operating manuals and other reports are in a CD-ROM that accompanies this book.
In order to defend infrastructure, economy, and settlement in Southeast Louisiana, we must construct new land to mitigate increasing risk. Links between urban environments and economic drivers have constrained the dynamic delta landscape for generations, now threatening to undermine the ecological fitness of the entire region. Static methods of measuring, controlling, and valuing land fail in an environment that is constantly in flux; change and indeterminacy are denied by traditional inhabitation.Multiple land building practices reintroduce deltaic fluctuation and strategic deposition of fertile material to form the foundations of a multi-layered defence strategy. Manufactured marshlands reduce exposure to storm surge further inland. Virtual monitoring and communication networks inform design decisions and land use becomes determined by its ecological health. Mudscapes at the threshold of land and water place new value on former wastelands. The social, economic, and ecological evolution of the region are defended by an expanded web of growing land.Keywords: Risk, Coastal, Adaptive, Mudscapes SUBHEAD REQUIREDThe Coastal Sustainability Studio is a transdisciplinary research and design operation at Louisiana State University. Including architects, landscape architects, urban planners, civil engineers, and coastal scientists, the workshop is a collaborative effort incorporating the College of Art+Design, the College of Engineering, and the School of the Coast & Environment. The studio addresses issues stemming from coastal erosion and wetland disintegration, incorporating the needs of specific design projects and their relationships with ecological, institutional, industrial, and socioeconomic systems amongst the built environment. The works of CSS aim to reduce economic losses and protect assets, promote a sustainable coastal system by incorporating natural and constructed processes, provide sustainable habitats to support an array of commercial and recreational heritage, and sustain the unique coastal heritage of the state of Louisiana.Along with increased storm frequencies and intensities, coastal environments around the world are facing growing challenges of subsidence, land loss, saltwater intrusion, and sea level rise. These zones at the thresholds of land and water are often densely inhabited, both by spectrums of urban settings and the industries and infrastructures that sustain them. Incorporating gradients of population, trade, investment, and regulation, the stretch of shore between Houston, Texas and Mobile, Alabama presents one of the most vulnerable megaregions throughout the entirety of the United States. Annual land loss exposes urban cores and embedded industries to increased risk as the wetland fabric that formerly sheltered the region subsides. Amongst the silts of the Mississippi River Delta, contradictions between human and geologic time become visible; static methods to quantify, control, and value land fail in an Infrastructure and Extreme Events
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