Environmental, history and policy : still settling Australia /

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Imprint:Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Description:xiv, 306 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4400931
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Other authors / contributors:Dovers, Stephen.
ISBN:0195507495
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I. Overviews
  • 1. Still settling Australia: environment, history, and policy / Stephen Dovers
  • 2. The end, or new beginning? / Eric Rolls
  • 3. Snakes and cannons: water management and the geographical imagination in Australia / J. M. Powell
  • Pt. II. Science and History
  • 4. Using environmental history and ecological evidence to appraise management regimes in forests / David B. Lindenmayer
  • 5. History for soil conservation and catchment management / Robert Wasson and Aleksey Sidorchuk
  • 6. Oral history, ecological knowledge, and river management / Jane Roberts and Geoff Sainty
  • Pt. III. Communities, History, and Environment
  • 7. An environmental education for a local community: knowing the Border Ranges / W. Ross Johnston
  • 8. Community histories and participation in environmental management / Melissa Nursey-Bray
  • 9. Environmental history in museums: objects, subjects, and narratives / Ruth Lane
  • Pt. IV. History, Law, and Policy
  • 10. Pastoral lease tenures as policy instruments, 1847-1997 / John Holmes
  • 11. Past and present: managing the Western Division of New South Wales / Michael Quinn
  • 12. An Australian public trust / Tim Bonyhady
  • 13. Soil conservation: history, law, and learning / John Bradsen.