Ecological pioneers : a social history of Australian ecological thought and action / Martin Mulligan, Stuart Hill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mulligan, Martin.

Contributor:

Hill, Stuart, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmentalism--Social aspects--Australia.

Environmentalism.

Social ecology--Australia.

Social ecology.

Human ecology--Australia.

Human ecology.

Environmentalism--Social aspects.

Australia.

Physical Description:

vii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Contents:

2 The Colonisation of Australian Nature and Early Ecological Thought 16

3 Seeing the Land in a New Light: People and Landscapes in Australian Art 34

4 Of Drovers' Wives and a Timeless Land: Land and Identity in Australian Literature 72

5 Taking Nature to the Public: Journalists, Broadcasters and Writers as Educators 112

6 Towards a Conservation Ethic: Birth of the Conservation Movement 136

7 Working in the Borderlands: Australian Innovations in Ecological Science 164

8 Thinking like an Ecosystem: Australian Innovations in Land and Resource Management 191

9 Challenging terra nullius Views: The Aboriginal Land Rights Movement 216

10 Green Politics in the Wide Brown Land: Wilderness Politics and Social Justice Agendas 243

11 Towards a Communicative Ethic: Australian Contributions to Ecophilosophy 274.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-328) and index.

ISBN:

0521811031

0521009561

OCLC:

47922800