| Description |
1 online resource : map |
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text file EPUB 3.3MB |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. European arrival and settlement -- 2. Exploitation and enjoyment -- 3. Emerging concern -- 4. Towards saving the Reef -- 5. The Save the Reef Campaign : Ellison Reef -- 6. We must appear to be well informed -- 7. The Save the Reef Campaign : Oil drilling -- 8. The black ban -- 9. Towards a Reef commission -- 10. Royal Commission -- 11. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority -- Epilogue. |
| 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. Saving the Reef 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 narrative and interwoven contemporary essays, historian Rohan Lloyd reveals how the Reef's continued decline is forcing us to reconsider what 'saving' the Reef really means."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Biography |
Rohan Lloyd is a historian who specialises in North Queensland and Australian environmental history. He has published histories on the Great Barrier Reef, North Queensland and Australian environmentalism. Rohan works as an English teacher at Ignatius Park College in Townsville and is an adjunct lecturer at James Cook University. |
| Access |
National edeposit: Available onsite at the National Library of Australia, State Library of Queensland Online access with authorization. AU-CaNED |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Coral reef conservation -- Australia -- Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) -- History.
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Coral reef management -- Australia -- Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) -- History.
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Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) -- Environmental conditions -- Public opinion.
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Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) -- History.
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Coral reef conservation |
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Coral reef management |
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Ecology -- Public opinion |
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Queensland -- Great Barrier Reef |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Note |
Title from cover image: Saving the Reef : the human story behind one of Australia's greatest environmental treasures |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Lloyd, Rohan. Saving the reef. St Lucia, Qld : University of Queensland Press, 2022 9780702265754 (DLC)jb2022035640 (OCoLC)1347427004 |
| ISBN |
9780702267215 epub |
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070226721X epub |
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9780702267208 epdf |
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0702267201 epdf |
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9780702265754 paperback |
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0702265756 paperback |
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