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Australian Environmental History

Professor Richard Broome and Professor Katie Holmes

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Just two centuries after European settlement, the human impact on the land, massive species extinction, and climate change, pose serious threats to the continent's fragile ecology. Students will consider Australia's early geological history; Indigenous land use; the competing ideas of land and land use among early settlers; and how various forms of land use shaped, and changed the environment.
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This week we consider the birth of environmental history and what is the nature of this sub-discipline of history. Is it a discipline marked by pessimism or neutral in its view of the world? Copyright 2011 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.Af Professor Richard Broome and Professor Katie Holmes
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