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Main Title Beyond the North-South Culture Wars Reconciling Northern Australia's Recent Past With Its Future / [electronic resource] :
Type EBOOK
Author Dale, Allan.
Publisher Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
Year Published 2014
Call Number HF1021-1027
ISBN 9783319055978
Subjects Geography ; Environmental sciences ; Humanities
Internet Access
Description Access URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05597-8
Collation XVIII, 148 p. 12 illus., 6 illus. in color. online resource.
Notes Due to license restrictions, this resource is available to EPA employees and authorized contractors only
Contents Notes From the Contents: Themes in the North's Recent History -- Understanding the Cultural Divide -- Southern Enclaves - Mining, Tourism and Urban Development -- Enviro-colonialism - World Heritage and the Northern Psyche. Increasingly, Australia's agriculturalists are looking to the nation's north to escape the decline in southern Australia's water and soil resources. Booming mineral and gas development is also helping to drive the nation's economic success. At the same time, the south's conservation sector would like to see much of the north preserved as iconic wilderness. Both conservation and resource development interests alike are often at odds with the interests of the north's traditional owners, many of whom remain trapped in welfare dependency and poverty. Indeed, to the ire of north Australians, the past five decades of north Australian history have indeed been characterized by these national-scale conflicts being played out in regional and local communities. This book explores these conflicts as well as the many emerging opportunities facing the development of the north, suggesting that a strong cultural divide between northern and southern Australia exists; one that needs to be reconciled if the nation as a whole is to benefit from northern development. The author first explores where these historical conflicts could take us without a clear forward agenda. A story-based personal narrative from his long and diverse experience in the north gives life to these themes. Finally, the book then draws on these stories to help shape a cohesive agenda for the north's future.
Place Published Cham
Corporate Au Added Ent SpringerLink (Online service)
Title Ser Add Ent SpringerBriefs in Geography,
Host Item Entry Springer eBooks
PUB Date Free Form 2014
Series Title Untraced SpringerBriefs in Geography,
BIB Level m
Medium computer
Content text
Carrier online resource
Cataloging Source OCLC/T
OCLC Time Stamp 20140621201539
Language eng
Origin SPRINGER
Type EBOOK
OCLC Rec Leader 03265nam a22004815i 45