21.5 x 14.0cms 204pp very good+ paperback & cover When the Vcitorian Minister of lands developed the Little Desert Settlement Scheme in 1968 he faced a ''vehement and sophisticated'' conservation campaign. The chapters are: the dispute; Crosbie Morrison''s National Parks campaign; the local & global; the ecologists; a Wimmera perspective; the bureaucrats; public particiaption & the new Bureacracies; conservation & environmentalism.

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Titel: Defending The Little Desert: The Rise Of Ecological Consciousness In Australia
Verlag: Melbourne University Press Melbourne 1998
Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0522848311
ISBN-13: 9780522848311
Einband: Softcover

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The Little Desert dispute of 1968 was a watershed in Australian environmental politics, marking the beginning of a new consciousness of nature.

In 1968 Sir William McDonald, Victoria's Minister of Lands, announced a rural settlement scheme for the Little Desert in Victoria's far north-west. The conservation campaign that ensued was one of unprecedented vehemence and sophistication. It cost McDonald his parliamentary seat and consigned the Little Desert Settlement Scheme to oblivion.

The Little Desert dispute was a watershed in Australian environmental politics. Suburban activists, scientists, amateur naturalists, economists and bureaucrats banded together to oppose McDonald's ill-conceived scheme. It marked the beginning of a new consciousness of nature and the concept of `biological diversity' was voiced in the halls of parliament for the first time.

In Defending the Little Desert, Libby Robin offers a sensitive account of the unlikely coalition of forces that assembled to save the Little Desert.

This beautifully written account of the campaign, perhaps the earliest expression of ecological consciousness in Australia, will be read by all Australians interested in conservation and the environment, in participatory political processes and in 'public science'.

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Libby Robin is an independent non-fiction writer and prize-winning author whose work explores museums and environmental ideas. She works with museums in Australia, Germany, Estonia and Norway. Her books include The Flight of the Emu (2001), How a Continent Created a Nation (2007) and The Environment: A History of the Idea (2018).

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