CSIRO Publishing is an
Australian-based science and technology publisher. It publishes books, journals and magazines across a range of scientific disciplines, including
agriculture
Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled peop ...
,
chemistry, plant and animal sciences,
natural history and
environmental management
Environmental resource management is the management of the interaction and impact of human societies on the environment. It is not, as the phrase might suggest, the management of the environment itself. Environmental resources management aims ...
. It also produces interactive learning modules for primary school students and provides writing workshops for researchers.
CSIRO Publishing operates within the
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an Australian Government agency responsible for scientific research.
CSIRO works with leading organisations around the world. From its headquarters in Canberra, CSIRO ...
(CSIRO). It was established as a stand-alone business unit in 1995.
Books
CSIRO Publishing publishes books in a number of categories,
including:
* Animals: behaviour; birds; domesticated; ecology and management; field guides; fish; genetics and evolution; health and welfare; invasive; invertebrates; mammals and marsupials; reproduction and physiology; reptiles and amphibians; and wildlife.
* Built Environment: architecture; building; codes and standards; engineering; landscape architecture; and planning and design.
* Food and Agriculture: agribusiness; agroforestry; aquaculture; crops and pastures; farm management; food and beverages; landcare; livestock codes; livestock management; sustainability; viticulture; and weeds, pests and diseases.
* Gardening and Horticulture: fruit, vegetables and flowers; horticulture; native plants and gardens; sustainability; techniques and design; and trees, shrubs and grasses.
* Health: environmental health; general health; and nutrition.
* Marine and Freshwater: coastal science; fisheries and fishing; freshwater ecology; and marine ecology.
* Natural Environment: biodiversity and ecology; climate; energy; environmental management; fire; natural resources; policy and risk; pollution and waste;
restoration ecology; soils; sustainability; and water.
* Physical Sciences: astronomy; chemistry; earth science; mathematics; mining and resources; physics; prehistory; and technology.
* Plant Science: algae and lichens; aquatic and marine plants; ecology and management; field and regional guides; flowering plants; grasses; identification and systematics; mosses and fungi; pathology; and physiology and chemistry.
* Science in Society: children's books; education; heritage and history; ideas and issues; Indigenous Australia; leisure and tourism; popular science; and populations.
Authors
CSIRO Publishing authors include or have included:
* Michael Braby
he Complete Field Guide to Butterflies of Australia
He or HE may refer to:
Language
* He (pronoun), an English pronoun
* He (kana), the romanization of the Japanese kana へ
* He (letter), the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets
* He (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic script called ''He'' ...
* Robin Brimblecombe, Kara Rosemeier
ositive Energy Homes*
Harold Cogger eptiles and Amphibians of Australia* Stephen Debus
irds of Prey of Australia* Roger Farrow
nsects of South-Eastern Australia* Michelle Gleeson
iniature Lives* Jenny Gray
oo Ethics
OO or oo may refer to:
Science and technology
* ʻŌʻō, an extinct bird of the genus ''Moho''
* Object-oriented programming, a computer programming paradigm
* O.O (also O.o or o.O), an emoticon to represent two eyes and a nose or mouth
Transp ...
*
Gisela Kaplan ird Minds*
David Lindenmayer
David Lindenmayer, , is an Australian scientist and academic. His research focuses on the adoption of nature conservation practices in agricultural production areas, developing ways to improve integration of native forest harvesting and biodive ...
nvironmental titles*
Peter Menkhorst
Peter Menkhorst is an Australian ecologist and an authority on Australian mammals and birds. He is experienced in wildlife management, including management of over-abundant Koalas, and in threatened species recovery; he has developed recovery pl ...
''et al.''
The Australian Bird Guide
''The Australian Bird Guide'' (The Guide) was published by CSIRO Publishing in 2017. Written by Peter Menkhorst along with Danny Rogers and Rohan Clarke and illustrations by Jeff Davies, Peter Marsack and Kim Franklin, the book took almost eigh ...
*
Robert Whyte, Greg Anderson
Field Guide to Spiders of Australia
Journals and magazines
CSIRO Publishing publishes the following journals and magazines:
References
External links
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Book publishing companies of Australia
CSIRO
Non-profit academic publishers
Academic publishing companies
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