Salinity Crisis, The: Landscapes, Communities and Politics

AUSTRALIAN NATURAL HISTORY West Australiana –

Comprehensive attempt to examine one of Australia’s most serious environmental problems. Combining history, politics, geography and anthropology, it focuses on dryland salinity in Western Australia’s extensive Wheatbelt.

• xii, 324 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 21 cm. #290625

• • Salinization — Australia
  • Salinization — Control — Australia
  • Soil salinization — Western Australia
  • Landscape changes — Australia
  • Biodiversity — Australia
  • Australia — Rural conditions
  • Australia — Environmental conditions
  • Salinity – a multidimensional crisis
  • The spread of salinity and responses to it; 1900-1990s
  • Contemporary issues posed by salinity
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  • Contemporary issues (Nedlands, W.A.)