Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific : an environmental history
Garden, Don2005
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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 preserving - the ecological stability and diversity of the area.
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Santa Barbara ABC-CLIO 2005
Collation:
398 p. illustrations maps
Contents:
The wide brown land - The broad blue ocean - 'The tragic ringbarked forests': Australia 1788-1900 - 'Broad, busy bulldozed acres': Australia 1901-2001 - 'And mar the loveliness of ages': New Zealand and the Pacific to 2001 - Contemporary concerns - Case studies.
ISBN:
157607868X (hbk)
Dewey class:
304.2 AUS
Local class:
304.2
Language:
English
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BRN:
35441
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