Download or read book A Short History of Wetlands in SW Victoria written by Rod Bird and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication provides a brief outline of the wetland landscape of south-western Victoria from the time of settlement by Europeans, through the pastoral, mining and agricultural phases to the present day. Colour photographs are provided for the major wetlands in the Hamilton region and examples of the waterbirds are also presented. Some wetland categories are presented along with statistics for the region, showing the massive impact of drainage since setllement.. References are provided that document the current situation and attitudes regarding mangement of wetlands and drainage. The case for restoration of major drained wetlands is presented.

Download or read book Wetlands and Western Cultures written by Rod Giblett and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Wetlands and Western Cultures: Denigration to Conservation, Rod Giblett examines the portrayal of wetlands in Western culture and argues for their conservation. Giblett’s analysis of the wetland motif in literature and the arts, including in Beowulf and the writings of Tolkien and Thoreau, demonstrates two approaches to wetlands—their denigration as dead waters or their commendation as living waters with a potent cultural history.

Download or read book Middlemarsh The Hopkins River Kindred Wetlands and Remarkable People written by Rod Giblett and published by Transnational Press London. This book was released on 2023-04-12 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One book leads to another; one book grows out of another; one book flows out of others. Flowing is a fitting figure for a book about a river, creeks, wetlands and water. The present volume grew out of a brief discussion of two paintings of wetlands in mid-western Victoria by the nineteenth-century colonial landscape painter Eugene von Guérard. This discussion was part of a chapter on wetlands in Australian painting and photography (Giblett 2020a). It was included in John Ryan’s and Li Chen’s edited collection Australian Wetland Cultures (Ryan and Chen, eds 2020). I also contributed a chapter to this volume on Aboriginal wetland cultures, their sacral water beings and their refraction in Rainbow Serpent anthropology and Rainbow Spirit theology (Giblett 2020e). I take up and develop this discussion in the present volume in relation to particular Aboriginal peoples and places in mid-western Victoria, their practices of wetland cultures and their stories about and images of them, including the Rainbow Serpent." Contents Introduction to the Hopkins River, Its Basin, People and Places 13 Chapter 1. The Cast of Characters and A Companion of A Captain of Conservation. 35 Chapter 2. Where The River Rises: The Upper Hopkins, Its Creeks and Lake Bolac. 57 Chapter 3. Wetlands of ‘Australia Felix’: Between ‘The Grampians’ and The Upper Hopkins 77 Chapter 4. A Ramble Along The River: Through Colonial Places On The Middle Hopkins 103 Chapter 5. People and Place of Hissing Swan: Wetlands On The Middle Hopkins 125 Chapter 6. Framlingham and Hopkins Falls: Aboriginal Places and People On The Lower Hopkins 147 Chapter 7. Where The River Meets The Sea: The Hopkins Estuary 167

Download or read book Black Swan Song written by Rod Giblett and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining memoir and studies in the Environmental Humanities, Black Swan Song weaves together an autobiographically-based account of the unique life and work of Rod Giblett. For over 25 years he was a leading local wetland conservationist, environmental activist, and pioneer transdisciplinary researcher and writer of fiction and non-fiction. He has researched, written, and published more than 25 books in the environmental humanities, especially wetland cultural studies, and psychoanalytic ecology. Black Swan Song traces Rod’s early and later life and work from being born in Borneo as the child of Christian missionaries, through his childhood in Bible College, being a High School dropout and studying at three universities to becoming an academic, activist and author, and now a writer. Following in the footsteps of New Lives of the Saints: Twelve Environmental Apostles, Black Swan Song also comprises conversations in conservation counter-theology between the twelve minor biblical prophets and twelve environmental apostles, such as Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, John Muir, and Rachel Carson. It also introduces the lives and works of twelve more environmental apostles, such as John Clare, Rebecca Solnit, John Charles Ryan, and others who have made a valuable contribution to green thinking and living. Black Swan Song mixes modes and genres, such as memoir, essay, story, criticism, etc., making up the writer’s black swan song. It provides ways of living and being with the earth in dark and troubled times by providing resources of a journey of hope for learning to live bio- and psycho-symbiotic livelihoods in bioregional home habitats of the living earth and in the Symbiocene, the hoped-for age superseding the Anthropocene.

Download or read book An Assessment of Victoria s Wetlands written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Conservation values of lakes and wetlands in the south western region Victoria written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Victorian Wetlands written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Conservation Values of Lakes and Wetlands in the South western Region Victoria written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wetlands Conservation Program for Victoria written by Victoria and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wetland Connectivity written by Kay Morris and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wetlands written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Review of Literature and Other Information on Victorian Wetlands written by A. J. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Survey of Wetlands in the Lake Cooper Area Victoria written by A. H. Corrick and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Australian Wetland Cultures written by John Charles Ryan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most productive ecosystems on earth, wetlands are also some of the most vulnerable. Australian Wetland Cultures argues for the cultural value of wetlands. Through a focus on swamps and their conservation, the volume makes a unique contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities. The authors investigate the crucial role of swamps in Australian society through the idea of wetland cultures. The broad historical and cultural range of the book spans pre-settlement indigenous Australian cultures, nineteenth-century European colonization, and contemporary Australian engagements with wetland habitats. The contributors situate the Australian emphasis in international cultural and ecological contexts. Case studies from Perth, Western Australia, provide practical examples of the conservation of wetlands as sites of interlinked natural and cultural heritage. The volume will appeal to readers with interests in anthropology, Australian studies, cultural studies, ecological science, environmental studies, and heritage protection.

Download or read book History Fauna and Flora of Lake Linlithgow Jenawarra and Associated Wetlands in South west Victoria written by Patrick Rodney Bird and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Field Guide to Victorian Wetland Ecological Vegetation Classes for the Index of Wetland Condition written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Southwest written by Victoria Laurie and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victoria Laurie offers us in words and pictures the southwest of Australia, a land triangle that encompasses a multitude of natural worlds.