Wetland Cultures
Author: Rod Giblett
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 303157365X
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Author: Rod Giblett
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 303157365X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Charles Ryan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2019-10-31
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1498599958
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmong the most productive ecosystems on earth, wetlands are also some of the most vulnerable. Australian Wetland Cultures argues for the cultural value of wetlands. Through a focus on swamps and their conservation, the volume makes a unique contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities. The authors investigate the crucial role of swamps in Australian society through the idea of wetland cultures. The broad historical and cultural range of the book spans pre-settlement indigenous Australian cultures, nineteenth-century European colonization, and contemporary Australian engagements with wetland habitats. The contributors situate the Australian emphasis in international cultural and ecological contexts. Case studies from Perth, Western Australia, provide practical examples of the conservation of wetlands as sites of interlinked natural and cultural heritage. The volume will appeal to readers with interests in anthropology, Australian studies, cultural studies, ecological science, environmental studies, and heritage protection.
Author: Rod Giblett
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2021-05-19
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1793643466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Wetlands and Western Cultures: Denigration to Conservation, Rod Giblett examines the portrayal of wetlands in Western culture and argues for their conservation. Giblett’s analysis of the wetland motif in literature and the arts, including in Beowulf and the writings of Tolkien and Thoreau, demonstrates two approaches to wetlands—their denigration as dead waters or their commendation as living waters with a potent cultural history.
Author: K. M. Stephens
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780643066748
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis practical field guide describes and illustrates in colour some 90 common and widespread wetland plants found in Queensland, and gives a distribution map for each species.
Author: Kerrylee Rogers
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Published: 2010-11-15
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 0643102191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFloodplain wetlands of the Murray-Darling Basin provide critical habitat for numerous species of flora and fauna, yet the ecology of these wetlands is threatened by a range of environmental issues. This book addresses the urgent need for an improved ecohydrological understanding of the biota of Australian freshwater wetlands. It synthesises key water and habitat requirements for 35 species of plants, 48 species of waterbirds, 17 native and four introduced species of fish, 15 species of frogs, and 16 species of crustaceans and molluscs found in floodplain wetlands of the Murray-Darling Basin. Each species profile includes: the influence of water regimes on the survival, health and condition of the species; key stimuli for reproduction and germination; habitat and dietary preferences; as well as major knowledge gaps for the species. Floodplain Wetland Biota in the Murray-Darling Basin also provides an overview of the likely impacts of hydrological change on wetland ecosystems and biota, in the context of climate change and variability, with implications for environmental management. This important book provides an essential baseline for further education, scientific research and management of floodplain wetland biota in the Murray-Darling Basin.
Author: Emily O'Gorman
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2021-07-13
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 0295749040
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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. Unintended consequences include biodiversity loss, poor water quality, and the erosion of cultural sites, and only in the past few decades have wetlands been widely recognized as worth preserving. Emily O’Gorman asks, What has counted as a wetland, for whom, and with what consequences? Using the Murray-Darling Basin—a massive river system in eastern Australia that includes over 30,000 wetland areas—as a case study and drawing on archival research and original interviews, O’Gorman examines how people and animals have shaped wetlands from the late nineteenth century to today. She illuminates deeper dynamics by relating how Aboriginal peoples acted then and now as custodians of the landscape, despite the policies of the Australian government; how the movements of water birds affected farmers; and how mosquitoes have defied efforts to fully understand, let alone control, them. Situating the region’s history within global environmental humanities conversations, O’Gorman argues that we need to understand wetlands as socioecological landscapes in order to create new kinds of relationships with and futures for these places.
Author: Nick Romanowski
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Published: 2013-10-21
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0643107576
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than a natural history, this book explains the underlying forces that drive ecological change and movement in Australian wetlands.
Author: Emily O'Gorman
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Published: 2024-08-06
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 0522880622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat 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 recognised as worth preserving for their diverse plants, animals, insects, and their human histories. Examining Australia’s own Murray-Darling Basin, environmental historian Emily O’Gorman shows how people and animals have shaped wetlands since the late nineteenth century. O’Gorman draws on archival research and original interviews to illuminate how Aboriginal peoples acted then and now as custodians of the landscape, how the movements of water birds affected farmers and how mosquitoes have defied efforts to fully understand, let alone control, them. Situating Australia’s history within global environmental humanities conversations, O’Gorman argues that we need to understand wetlands as socioecological landscapes that transcend the nature–culture divide and to embrace non-Western ways of knowing and being. Only then can we begin to create sustainable relationships with, and futures for, the wetlands.
Author: Jenny A. Davis
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780646303918
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