Environmental histories of New Zealand /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Pawson, Eric, Brooking, Tom, 1949-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	South Melbourne, Vic. : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Subjects:	Landscape changes > New Zealand > History. Human ecology > New Zealand > History. Nature > Effect of human beings on > New Zealand. New Zealand > Environmental conditions > History. New Zealand > Colonization.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Eric Pawson, Tom Brooking
Pt. 1. Encounters
Fragile plenty: pre-European Māori and the New Zealand environment / Atholl Anderson
Contesting resources: Māori, Pākehā, and a tenurial revolution / Evelyn Stokes
Resource frontiers, environment, and settler capitalism: 1769-1860 / Jim McAloon
Pt. 2. Colonising
Remaking the grasslands of the open country / Peter Holland, Kevin O'Connor, Alexander Wearing
Mining the quarry / Terry Hearn
Destruction under the guise of improvement? The forest, 1840-1920 / Graeme Wynn
Pt. 3. Special environments
Children of the burnt bush: New Zealanders and the indigenous remnant, 1880-1930 / Paul Star, Lynne Lochhead
Meanings of mountains / Eric Pawson
'Swamps which might doubtless easily be drained': swamp drainage and its impact on the indigenous / Geoff Park
Pt. 4. Modernising
Grasslands revolution reconsidered / Tom Brooking, Robin Hodge, Vaughan Wood
State as conservationist, 1920-60: 'wise use' of forests, lands, and water / Michael Roche
On the edge: making urban places / Eric Pawson
Exotic natives and contrived wild gardens: the twentieth-century home garden / Helen M. Leach
Pt. 5. Perspectives
Companions, stowaways, imperialists, invaders: pests and weeds in New Zealand / Thomas D. Isern
Bound to the land: Māori retention and assertion of land and identity / Danny Keenan
History of New Zealand environmental law / Nicola Wheen
Losing ground? Environmental problems and prospects at the beginning of the twenty-first century / Christine Dann