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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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Professor Bill Gammage (Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University) talks to Professor Richard Broome (History Program, La Trobe University) about Aboriginal land management prior to European arrival. Copyright 2011 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.Di Professor Bill Gammage
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Professor Tom Griffiths (Environmental historian, Australian National University) talks to Professor Katie Holmes (History Program, La Trobe University) about his book 'Slicing the Silence' on the continent Antarctica. Copyright 2011 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.Di Professor Tom Griffiths
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Professor Katie Holmes (History, La Trobe University) on when and how did different attitudes to nature developed, what ideas shaped this new view, and the impact it had on human-nature relationships. Copyright 2011 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.Di Professor Katie Holmes
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Professor Richard Broome (History, La Trobe University) on where Australia came from and what it was like when humans first entered it. What underpinned the extinction of some of the land’s most distinctive fauna - humans or nature? Copyright 2011 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.…
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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.Di Professor Richard Broome and Professor Katie Holmes
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