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The Fly River, Papua New Guinea, Volume 9 - Environmental Studies in an Impacted Tropical River System (Hardcover, 9th edition)
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The Fly River, Papua New Guinea, Volume 9 - Environmental Studies in an Impacted Tropical River System (Hardcover, 9th edition)
Series: Developments in Earth and Environmental Sciences
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The Fly River and its tributaries, the Ok Tedi and Strickland
rivers, are located in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea.
All three rivers have their source in the rugged central mountain
range of the island and eventually flow, via the Fly River delta,
into the Gulf of Papua to the north of Australia's Great Barrier
Reef. With a catchment area still largely covered by tropical
rainforest and relatively few human inhabitants, this remote part
of Papua New Guinea presents a rare opportunity to document and
understand the dynamics of a large tropical river system largely
unaffected by human activity.
In 1984 the Ok Tedi Mining Company Limited began mining copper and
gold mineralisation from Mt. Fubilan, which is located at the
headwaters of the Ok Tedi. In 1990, mining begin at the Porgera
gold mine located at the headwaters of the Strickland River. Since
that time both companies have intensely monitored the environment
of the Fly River system in order to better understand the possible
impact of mining.
This book is intended to assemble and summarise this vast amount of
information, much of it contained in internal company reports, to
better understand the environmental complexity and dynamics of this
large and relatively undisturbed tropical river system.
The approach to be taken in achieving this outcome is to solicit
contributions summarising each of the scientific disciplines to be
covered from recognised experts with experience in the region.
* documents physical and biologic change in a large tropical river
system brought about largely by mining in an otherwise pristine
environment.
* this book brings together a broad rand of disciplines to provide
acomprehensive overview of change in a complex and dynamical
tropical river system based largely on previously unpublished
company reports.
* the book provides examples of state-of-the-art strategies and
methodologies for monitoring environmental impact in a large river
system.
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