Saving the Reef
eBook - ePub

Saving the Reef

The human story behind one of Australia's greatest environmental treasures

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eBook - ePub

Saving the Reef

The human story behind one of Australia's greatest environmental treasures

About this book

While in the past Australians wrestled with what the Reef is, today they are struggling to reconcile what it will be … To do this, we need to understand the Reef' s intertwining human story. The Great Barrier Reef has come to dominate Australian imaginations and global environmental politics. Saving the Reef charts the social history of Australia' s most prized yet vulnerable environment, from the relationship between First Nations peoples and colonial settlers, to the Reef' s most portentous moment – the Save the Reef campaign launched in the 1960s. Through this gripping narrative and interwoven contemporary essays, historian Rohan Lloyd reveals how the Reef' s continued decline is forcing us to reconsider what ' saving' the Reef really means.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Author Biography
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Author’s Note
  7. Introduction
  8. Map of the Great Barrier Reef
  9. List of Abbreviations
  10. Chapter 1: European Arrival and Settlement
  11. Chapter 2: Exploitation and Enjoyment
  12. Knowledge
  13. Chapter 3: Emerging Concern
  14. Chapter 4: Towards Saving the Reef
  15. Catchment
  16. Chapter 5: The Save the Reef Campaign: Ellison Reef
  17. Chapter 6: We Must Appear to Be Well Informed
  18. Chapter 7: The Save the Reef Campaign: Oil Drilling
  19. Seeing
  20. Chapter 8: The Black Ban
  21. Chapter 9: Towards a Reef Commission
  22. Science
  23. Chapter 10: Royal Commission
  24. Chapter 11: The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
  25. Change
  26. Epilogue
  27. Acknowledgements
  28. Notes
  29. Index
  30. Imprint Page