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The Pure State Of Nature : Sacred Cows, Destructive Myths And The Environment

Aboriginal Environmental Impacts

Australian Environmental History : Essays And Cases

  • Australian Environmental History : Essays And Cases
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    edited by Stephen Dovers
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    Book, Oxford University Press, 1994
  • Description

    This book explores past interactions between humans and the Australian environment - ‘more a new planet than a new continent’, as Eric Rolls says in his contribution - and offers insights into current environmental debates. Environmental history asks two simple questions: how did our present landscapes become what they are today, and what can we learn from this history? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (LOWER LEVEL)  GF801 .A87 1994  AVAILABLE

Taming The Great South Land : A History Of The Conquest Of Nature In Australia

  • Taming The Great South Land : A History Of The Conquest  Of Nature In Australia
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    William J. Lines
  • Publication Details

    Book, University of California Press, 1991
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    Examining the ways European society rapidly, radically transformed Australia’s physical and human landscapes, the author writes candidly of repeated environmental devastation–from the early slaughter of seals and whales to the destructive spread of sheep, through gold rushes and land settlement to British nuclear tests and the modern mining and timber industries. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (LOWER LEVEL)  GF801 .L55 1991  AVAILABLE