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The Great Barrier Reef - An Environmental History (Paperback)
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The Great Barrier Reef - An Environmental History (Paperback)
Series: Earthscan Oceans
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The Great Barrier Reef is located along the coast of Queensland in
north-east Australia and is the world's largest coral reef
ecosystem. Designated a World Heritage Area, it has been subject to
increasing pressures from tourism, fishing, pollution and climate
change, and is now protected as a marine park. This book provides
an original account of the environmental history of the Great
Barrier Reef, based on extensive archival and oral history
research. It documents and explains the main human impacts on the
Great Barrier Reef since European settlement in the region,
focusing particularly on the century from 1860 to 1960 which has
not previously been fully documented, yet which was a period of
unprecedented exploitation of the ecosystem and its resources. The
book describes the main changes in coral reefs, islands and marine
wildlife that resulted from those impacts. In more recent decades,
human impacts on the Great Barrier Reef have spread, accelerated
and intensified, with implications for current management and
conservation practices. There is now better scientific
understanding of the threats faced by the ecosystem. Yet these
modern challenges occur against a background of historical levels
of exploitation that is little-known, and that has reduced the
ecosystem's resilience. The author provides a compelling narrative
of how one of the world's most iconic and vulnerable ecosystems has
been exploited and degraded, but also how some early conservation
practices emerged.
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