Irrigation, salinity, and rural communities in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin, 1945-2020 / Daniel Rothenburg.
Rothenburg, Daniel, author.
2023
TD427.S24
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Title Irrigation, salinity, and rural communities in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin, 1945-2020 / Daniel Rothenburg.
Author Rothenburg, Daniel, author.
ISBN 9783031184512 (electronic bk.)
3031184513 (electronic bk.)
9783031184505
3031184505
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18451-2
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xviii, 303 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-18451-2 doi
Call Number TD427.S24
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.7380994
Summary This book explores the issue of salinization in the context of contemporary conflicts about irrigation, water, and the environment in Australia, considering the Murray-Darling Basin in particular. It provides an environmental and social history charting the transformation of rural communities in the basin through the salinization of soils and water. Focusing on the Goulburn-Murray Irrigation district in the southwest of the Murray-Darling basin - the largest irrigation district in Australia - it explores the history of state-directed, large-scale engineering in the district, where the environment has been altered dramatically to facilitate white agricultural settlement inland. Changes to the landscape led to extensive salinization, however - a significant environmental threat in Australia. This book traces the impact of these changes on rural communities, taking a 'bottom-up' approach, highlighting the connections between environmental, social, and political change. It provides an important reflection on the importance of environmental history for facing the challenges posed by anthropogenic climate change. Daniel Rothenburg is Scientific Coordinator and Research Associate at the Collaborative Research Center 923 "Threatened Order", University of Tübingen, Germany.
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Series Palgrave studies in world environmental history. 2730-9754
Available in Other Form Irrigation, salinity, and rural communities in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin, 1945-2020.
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1. Introduction
2. History, Geography, and Geology
3. Antecedents
4. The Dialectic of Environmental Security (1945-1976)
5. A Time of Crisis (1976-1982)
7. Community Activism (1966-1988)
8. A New World (1979-1994)
9. Under Control? (1988-2017)
10. Conclusion.

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