Who needs to know
about Acid Sulphate Soils?

Land users:

  • farming, mangrove and Melaleuca forestry, aquaculture, commercial and recreational fisheries

Developers:
  • commercial, industrial, residential, leisure facilities

Public bodies and agencies:
  • coastal and environmental protection
  • drainage boards
  • waste disposal
  • public health
  • water supply and quality

Civil engineers:
  • land reclamation
  • drainage and flood relief
  • coastal protection
  • harbour and estuarine works
  • earthworks, dredging
  • steel and concrete structures, pipelines
  • soft engineering

Policy-makers, planners and regulatory authorities
  • management and conservation of coastal areas and wetlands
  • environmental law
  • land reclamation and drainage

Agronomists and extension workers
  • tropical wetland crops
  • grassland
  • management of fen, marsh and swamp soils

Consultants
  • environmental impact assessments
  • management and conservation of coasts and wetland resources

Teachers, students and researchers
  • coastal and wetland management and conservation
  • soils, ecology and land use
  • policy studies