As cities from Cape Town to La Paz face acute water shortages, citizens need to know how urban water systems evolved to understand their vulnerabilities and alternatives. This volume sheds light on the challenges of water management in Australian cit...Lasīt vairāk
As cities from Cape Town to La Paz face acute water shortages, citizens need to know how urban water systems evolved to understand their vulnerabilities and alternatives. This volume sheds light on the challenges of water management in Australian cit...Lasīt vairāk
Margaret Cook, Lionel Frost, Andrea Gaynor, Jenny Gregory, Ruth A. Morgan, Martin Shanahan, Peter Spearritt
Sērija : Studies in Environment and History
(Izdošanas datums: 19-May-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108831581)
As Australian cities face uncertain water futures, what insights can the history of Aboriginal and settler relationships with water yield? Residents have come to expect reliable, safe, and cheap water, but natural limits and the costs of maintaining...Lasīt vairāk
Mallee Country tells the powerful history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present. Carefully shaped and managed by Aboriginal people for over 50,000 years, mallee country was dramatically transformed by sett...Lasīt vairāk
This volume contains 16 chapters that recount the history of the construction of stage eight of the Roe Highway (Roe 8) as part of the Perth Freight Link in Australia, and the resistance to the project, to protect the Aboriginal site known as the...Lasīt vairāk
Robin Mackay, Ilona Gaynor, Robin Mackay, Roman Vasseur, Yves Mettler, Nick Ferguson, John Gerrard, Andrea Philips, Matthew Poole, Benedict Singleton...
This collection charts some of the ways in which site continues to be a concern for contemporary practice, and introduces the concept of plot as an alternative....Lasīt vairāk
Water and energy are fundamental elements of community well-being and economic development, and a key focus of engineering efforts the world over. As such, they offer outstanding opportunities for the development of socially just engineering practice...Lasīt vairāk
A 2003 symposium at the University of Western Australia allowed people from the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities in academia, government, non-government organizations, and industry to share perspectives on water. The 15 essays here a...Lasīt vairāk
Drawing upon sources ranging from gardening books and magazines to statistics and oral history, Gaynor presents an environmental history of non-commercial suburban food production in Australia. Her narrative traces animal, fruit, and vegetable produc...Lasīt vairāk
