Wetlands in a Dry Land
More-than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin
$37.59
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
6 August 2024
Summary
How have people and wetlands shaped each other in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin? What counts as a wetland, especially in Australia, the driest inhabited continent on earth?
In the name of agriculture, urban growth, and disease control, humans have drained, filled, or otherwise destroyed nearly 87 percent of the world’s wetlands over the past three centuries. Only recently have wetlands been widely recognized as worth preserving for their diverse plants, animals, insects, and their …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522880618 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522880614 |
| Author: | Emily O'Gorman |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 6 August 2024 |
| Weight: | 352g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Emily O'Gorman
Emily O’Gorman is an environmental historian and associate professor at Macquarie University. Her books include Flood Country- An Environmental History of the Murray-Darling Basin (2012) and the co-edited collections Climate, Science, and Colonization- Histories from Australia and New Zealand (2014, with James Beattie and Matthew Henry) and Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire- New Views on Environmental History (2015, with Beattie and Edward Melillo). Wetlands in a Dry Land was first published in 2021 by University of Washington Press and is the Joint Winner of the AANZEHN Environmental History Book Prize 2023, a Nautilus Book Awards Silver Winner, and a finalist for the 2023 ALSE Creative Writing Book Award.
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