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Desert Channels: The Impulse to Conserve

Desert Channels: The Impulse to Conserve


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The book is the centrepiece of a project that combines book, art exhibitions and web-based educational materials exploring the distinctive Desert Channels country in south-western Queensland. The region is the main source of all the desert rivers in arid Australia, and its rivers drain into Lake Eyre. The region includes the Channel Country and adjacent Simpson Desert and extends north east of Longreach to include Mound Springs country.

Table of Contents:
PART 1: PLACE INTERLUDE I Landscape studies 2007: environmental projects and the impulse to conserve -- PART 2: LANDSCAPE INTERLUDE II Landscape studies 2008: aesthetic evaluation as an environmental tool -- PART 3: BIODIVERSITY INTERLUDE III Landscape studies 2009: painting in place -- PART 4: LIVELIHOOD INTERLUDE IV Listening to the land: Encounter documentary of zebra finches at Ocean Bore (CD at back of book).

About the Author :
Libby Robin is an environmental historian who has had a long interest in conservation initiatives in deserts. Her books include How a Continent Created a Nation, which won the NSW Premier's Prize for Australian History (2007) and The Flight of the Emu, which won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Science Writing (2003). Her most recent co-edited book is Boom and Bust: Bird Stories for a Dry Country (CSIRO Publishing 2009), which won the Whitley Medal in 2009. Chris Dickman is Professor in Terrestrial Ecology at the University of Sydney, and author of the popular book A Fragile Balance: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Marsupials (2007), which won the Whitley Medal for advancing zoological knowledge in 2008. He also won the NSW Scientist of the Year 2010 for the Plant and Animal Sciences Category and has been studying the natural history of the Desert Channels area for 20 years, and has published extensively on this. Mandy Martin is one of Australia's best known artists, with work in most major Australian galleries. She is a pioneering scholar in interdisciplinary environmental art projects, including the book Inflows: the Channel Country (2001), which focuses on this region. Her art is underpinned by a consuming passion for the future of the Australian landscape, particularly the desert landscapes.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780643103535
  • Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: CSIRO Publishing
  • Height: 200 mm
  • No of Pages: 352
  • Sub Title: The Impulse to Conserve
  • ISBN-10: 0643103538
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 260 mm


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