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Australian environmental history : essays and cases / edited by Stephen Dovers.
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English
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Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
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vi, 281 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
GF801 .A87 1994
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Human ecology
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Australia
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History
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Land use
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Australia
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History
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Nature
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Effect of human beings on
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Australia
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Summary note
Three overview essays explore the broad nature of Australian landscapes, the ways in which we have used and abused them, our attitudes toward them, and the ways we have perceived them. Seven case studies then explore the history of human-environment interactions in more detail across a variety of scales of time (decades, centuries, millennia) and space (sectors, regions, districts). There are analyses of small districts, large regions and natural resource sectors, from the Great Barrier Reef and the Brigalow domain, through the high country to the arid centre. In the Conclusion, Bill Gammage argues that the critical question facing us is not the current catch-phrase 'sustainable development', but sustainable damage - how much can our environment take?
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Australian environmental history : introduction, review and principles / Stephen Dovers
More a new planet than a new continent / Eric Rolls
Creating place and landscape / Ken Johnson
Evolving visions : environmental management and nature conservation in Australia / Kevin Frawley
Constructing Australia's forests in the image of capital / John Dargavel
Kiola : a history of the environmental impact of European occupation, 1830-1980 / Kenneth Fry
Still discovering Monaro : perceptions of landscape / Stephen Dovers
European settlement and the mammals of arid Australia / Stephen Morton
Environmental changes on the Bogong High Plains, 1850s to 1980s / Ruth Lawrence
The Brigalow / Henry Nix
The Great Barrier Reef : towards conservation and management / James Bowen
Sustainable damage : the environment and the future / Bill Gammage.
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ISBN
0195534824 ((paperback))
9780195534825 ((paperback))
LCCN
94189023
OCLC
31898924
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