Irrigation, Salinity, and Rural Communitie...

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Beschreibung

This book explores the issue of salinization in the context of contemporary conflicts about irrigation, water, and the environment in Australia, considering the Murray-Darling Basin in particular. It provides an environmental and social history charting the transformation of rural communities in the basin through the salinization of soils and water. Focusing on the Goulburn-Murray Irrigation district in the southwest of the Murray-Darling basin ¿ the largest irrigation district in Australia ¿ it explores the history of state-directed, large-scale engineering in the district, where the environment has been altered dramatically to facilitate white agricultural settlement inland. Changes to the landscape led to extensive salinization, however ¿ a significant environmental threat in Australia. This book traces the impact of these changes on rural communities, taking a ¿bottom-up¿ approach, highlighting the connections between environmental, social, and political change. It provides animportant reflection on the importance of environmental history for facing the challenges posed by anthropogenic climate change.

Über den Autor

Daniel Rothenburg is Scientific Coordinator and Research Associate at the Collaborative Research Center 923 "Threatened Order", University of Tübingen, Germany.

Zusammenfassung

Provides a regional and social history of irrigation in Australia's largest irrigation district

Explores the impact of salinization on rural communities

Draws out connections between social, political, and environmental change, and the local, regional, and global

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction .- 2. History, Geography, and Geology .- 3. Antecedents .- 4. The Dialectic of Environmental Security (1945-1976) .- 5. A Time of Crisis (1976-1982) .- 7. Community Activism (1966-1988) .- 8. A New World (1979-1994) .- 9. Under Control? (1988-2017) .- 10. Conclusion.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Buch
Reihe:	Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
Inhalt:	xviii 303 S. 1 s/w Illustr. 10 farbige Illustr. 303 p. 11 illus. 10 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9783031184505
ISBN-10:	3031184505
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Rothenburg, Daniel
Auflage:	1st ed. 2023
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
Maße:	216 x 153 x 23 mm
Von/Mit:	Daniel Rothenburg
Erscheinungsdatum:	14.01.2023
Gewicht:	0,533 kg

Artikel-ID: 124236613