Emily O'Gorman

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Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling BasinHardcover, 13 July 2021

Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin
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Part of Series
Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
Print Length
288 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Date Published
13 Jul 2021
ISBN-10
0295749032
ISBN-13
9780295749037

Description

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. 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.

Product Details

Author:
Emily O'Gorman
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
13 July 2021
Dimensions:
22.86 x 15.49 x 2.29 cm
ISBN-10:
0295749032
ISBN-13:
9780295749037
Language:
English
Location:
Seattle
Pages:
288
Weight:
521.63 gm

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