Fresh water : new perspectives on water in Australia / edited by Emily Potter [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Potter, Emily, editor.

Series:

MUP academic monograph series.

MUP Academic Monograph Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water use--Social aspects--Australia.

Water use.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 285 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Publishing, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Is water a resource or is it the source? Is it something to be consumed or does it have a life of its own? Recent histories of environmental misunderstanding and exploitation shadow our current regime of water management and use. While governments grapple with how to respond to widespread drought, the situation worsens. There is something amiss in current approaches to water. This timely collection of essays addresses the critical and contentious issue of water in Australia today and suggests a need to radically rethink our relationship with this fundamental substance. Contributors from a range of fields, from anthropology to visual arts, discuss the various ways in which we are caught up with water, and challenge us to take up the cultural transformations that underpin a sustainable ecological future.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Justice and longing

2 River Murray wetlands: Past and future

3 Black and white water

4 The traditional owner experience along the Murray River

5 Tracking water through the National Archives of Australia

6 River memory: Narratives of generation, hope and amnesia

7 Water, rivers and ecologically sustainable development

8 Reconciliation? Culture, nature and the Murray River

9 Absence and presence

10 Young people's representations of the Murray-Darling Basin

11 A Western Australian perspective on managing wetlands

12 Water recycling in a South Australian community

13 Weirs and flows in the Hawkesbury-Nepean

14 Integrating social considerations in catchment management

15 Justice, culture and economy for the Ngarrindjeri nation

16 A story is like a river: Weaving the Murray

17 Reimagining place: The possibilities of Paul Carter's Nearamnew

18 Hurricane Katrina and the rhetoric of natural disasters

19 Conclusion

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780522854251

0522854257

OCLC:

988801078