Georges River Blues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Georges River Blues write by Heather Goodall. This book was released on 2022-02-02. Georges River Blues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The lower Georges River, on Dharawal and Dharug lands, was a place of fishing grounds, swimming holes and picnics in the early twentieth century. But this all changed after World War II, when rapidly expanding industry and increasing population fell heaviest on this river, polluting its waters and destroying its bush. Local people campaigned to defend their river. They battled municipal councils, who were themselves struggling against an explosion of garbage as population and economy changed. In these blues (an Australian term for conflict), it was mangroves and swamps that became the focus of the fight. Mangroves were expanding because of increasing pollution and early climate change. Councils wanted to solve their garbage problems by bulldozing mangroves and bushland, dumping garbage and, eventually, building playing fields. So they attacked mangroves as useless swamps that harboured disease. Residents defended mangroves by mobilising ecological science to show that these plants nurtured immature fish and protected the river’s health. These suburban resident action campaigns have been ignored by histories of the Australian environmental movement, which have instead focused on campaigns to save distant ‘wilderness’ or inner-city built environments. The Georges River environmental conflicts may have been less theatrical, but they were fought out just as bitterly. And local Georges River campaigners – men, women and often children – were just as tenacious. They struggled to ‘keep bushland in our suburbs’, laying the foundation for today’s widespread urban environmental consciousness. Cover: Ruth Staples was a courageous Georges River campaigner who lived all her life around Lime Kiln Bay at Oatley West. She kept on fighting to regenerate the river until her death, aged 90, in 2020.
Red River Blues
Red River Blues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Red River Blues write by Bruce Bastin. This book was released on 1995. Red River Blues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This story of the origins and evolution of the American blues tradition draws on oral history interviews and research into neglected primary sources. Book jacket.
The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History
The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History write by Emily O'Gorman. This book was released on 2023-12-06. The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History presents a cutting-edge overview of the dynamic and ever-expanding field of environmental history. It addresses recent transformations in the field and responses to shifting scholarly, political, and environmental landscapes. The handbook fully and critically engages with recent exciting changes, contextualizes them within longer-term shifts in the field, and charts potential new directions for study. It focuses on five key areas: Theories and concepts related to changing considerations of social justice, including postcolonial, antiracist, and feminist approaches, and the field’s growing emphasis on multiple human voices and agencies. The roles of non-humans and the more-than-human in the telling of environmental histories, from animals and plants to insects as vectors of disease and the influences of water and ice, the changing theoretical approaches and the influence of concepts in related areas such as animal and discard studies. How changes in theories and concepts are shaping methods in environmental history and shifting approaches to traditional sources like archives and oral histories as well as experiments by practitioners with new methods and sources. Responses to a range of current complex problems, such as climate change, and how environmental historians can best help mitigate and resolve these problems. Diverse ways in which environmental historians disseminate their research within and beyond academia, including new modes of research dissemination, teaching, and engagements with stakeholders and the policy arena. This is an important resource for environmental historians, researchers and students in the related fields of political ecology, environmental studies, natural resources management and environmental planning. Chapters 9, 10 and 26 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Journal and Proceedings of the House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia
Journal and Proceedings of the House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Journal and Proceedings of the House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia write by Nova Scotia. General Assembly. House of Assembly. This book was released on 1921. Journal and Proceedings of the House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Annual Report of the Secretary for Agriculture, Nova Scotia
Annual Report of the Secretary for Agriculture, Nova Scotia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Annual Report of the Secretary for Agriculture, Nova Scotia write by Nova Scotia. Dept. of Agriculture. This book was released on 1916. Annual Report of the Secretary for Agriculture, Nova Scotia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
