Saving the reef / Rohan Lloyd.
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TextPublisher: St Lucia, Qld : University of Queensland Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: xx, 253 pages : map ; 23 cmContent type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780702265754 (paperback)Other title: Saving the reef : the human story behind one of Australia's greatest environmental treasuresSubject(s): Reef ecology -- Queensland -- Great Barrier Reef | Coral reef biology -- Queensland -- Great Barrier Reef | Marine biology -- Queensland -- Great Barrier Reef | Environmental protection -- Citizen participation -- Australia -- Anecdotes | Ocean -- Queensland -- Great Barrier Reef | Coral reef biology -- Social aspects | Oceanography -- Queensland -- Great Barrier Reef | Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 578.77 Summary: While in the past Australians wrestled with what the Reef is, today they are struggling to reconcile what it will be... To do this, we need to understand the Reef's intertwining human story. The Great Barrier Reef has come to dominate Australian imaginations and global environmental politics. In Saving the Reef, environmental historian Rohan Lloyd charts the social history of Australia's most prized yet vulnerable environment, from the relationship between First Nations peoples and colonial settlers, to the Reef's most portentous moment - the Save the Reef campaign launched in the 1960s. Through this gripping historical narrative and interwoven contemporary essays, Lloyd reveals how the scale of damage caused to the Reef has forced twenty-first century Australia to reconsider what 'saving' the Reef really means.
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult Nonfiction | 578 .77 LLO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111084317898 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
While in the past Australians wrestled with what the Reef is, today they are struggling to reconcile what it will be... To do this, we need to understand the Reef's intertwining human story. The Great Barrier Reef has come to dominate Australian imaginations and global environmental politics. In Saving the Reef, environmental historian Rohan Lloyd charts the social history of Australia's most prized yet vulnerable environment, from the relationship between First Nations peoples and colonial settlers, to the Reef's most portentous moment - the Save the Reef campaign launched in the 1960s. Through this gripping historical narrative and interwoven contemporary essays, Lloyd reveals how the scale of damage caused to the Reef has forced twenty-first century Australia to reconsider what 'saving' the Reef really means.
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