Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific : an environmental history / Don Garden.
Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific : an environmental history / Don Garden.
Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific : an environmental history / Don Garden.
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Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO, c2005.
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N304.20994/ 16 , 304.20994/27
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English
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Physical content
xvii, 398 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Contents
1. The wide brown land. --2. The broad blue ocean. --3. "The tragic ringbarked forests" : Australia 1788-1900. --4. "Broad, busy bulldozed acres" : Australia 1901-2001. --5. "And mar the loveliness of ages" : New Zealand and the Pacific to 2001. --6. Contemporary concerns. --7. Case studies.
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Publisher
Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO, c2005.
Place of Publication
California
Date Published
c2005.
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Summary
"This work is the first volume to explore the intertwined fates of humanity and nature in the wedge of the world between Asia and the Americas. Readers will learn how the exotic, often forbidding environments of Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania evolved; how human civilization affected that evolution; and how humanity is threatening - and preserv...
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Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific : an environmental history / Don Garden.
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Nature and human societies / ABC-CLIO.
Nature and human societies series.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of contents available via the World Wide Web.
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c2005.
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N304.20994/ 16 , 304.20994/27
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74VKwgJqpDE3
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ISBN
1576078698 (ebk.)
157607868X (hbk.)
9781576078693 (ebk.)
DDC
304.20994
MMS ID
991018397529702626
