Martin Mulligan, Stuart B. Hill

Ecological Pioneers

A Social History of Australian Ecological Thought and Action

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book traces the emergence of 'ecological pioneers' in Australian arts, sciences, politics and public life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 505g
• ISBN-13: 9780521009560
• ISBN-10: 0521009561
• Artikelnr.: 23184903

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; 2. The colonisation of Australian nature and the first
stirrings of ecological thought; 3. Seeing the land in a new light: people
and landscapes in Australian art; 4. Of drovers' wives and a timeless land:
land and identity in Australian literature; 5. Taking nature to the public:
nature education in public media; 6. Towards a conservation ethic: birth of
the conservation movement; 7. Working at the edges of mainstream science:
Australian innovations in ecological science; 8. Thinking like an
ecosystem: Australian innovations in reconceptualising and redesigning land
and resource management; 9. Challenging terra nullius views of people and
nature: on the origins and impact of the Aboriginal Land Rights Movement;
10. Green politics in the wide brown land: the cross-fertilisation of
wilderness politics and social justice agendas; 11. Towards a communicative
ethic: some Australian contributions to ecophilosophy; 12. Conclusions.