An important function of this site is to disseminate information on publications and reference material on Environmental History. Some of the publications listed here can be ordered online, or alternative ordering information is provided where possible.
Publications in progress
New International Project on the History of Environmental Prediction
Read more at http://www-histecon.kings.cam.ac.uk/ees/expertise_future.html
Desert Channels: The Impulse to Conserve
The Desert Channels book, edited by Libby Robin, Chris Dickman and Mandy Martin, is the centrepiece of a project that combines book, art exhibitions and web-based materials that explore the understandings of the distinctive Desert Channels country of south-western Queensland.
Read more about the book, including a full list of contributors, at the Desert Channels web site.
Publications
Boom and Bust: Bird Stories for a Dry Country
Edited by Libby Robin, Robert Heinsohn (Fenner School) and Leo Joseph (CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems) (published by CSIRO PUBLISHING, March 2009)
Violent Ends: The Arts of Environmental Anxiety
Violent Ends was a multi-media event held at National Museum of Australia on 11 June 2009. Participants included Mandy Martin, Will Fox, Tom Griffiths, Libby Robin, Carolyn Strange, Will Steffen, and Kate Rigby. Violent Ends is now published online and the website includes transcripts, images, video and audio recordings.
Visit Violent Ends, hosted at the National Museum of Australia.
Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica
Tom Griffiths
ISBN: 9780868409726, New South, May 2007, 320pp, PB , 235x155mm.
http://www.unswpress.com.au/isbn/0868409723.htm
How a Continent Created a Nation
Libby Robin
UNSW Press, February 2007, 272pp
Perfumed Pineries
ground-breaking conference proceedings Edited by John Dargavel, Diane Hart and Brenda Libbis Now available online as part of the Australian Forest History Series collection
Strata: deserts past, present and future
By Mandy Martin, Libby Robin and Mike Smith
This book is about diverse kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing place. Indigenous knowledge depends on country- country is the context for knowledge and the place where knowledge is significant. Western science, by contrast, typically differentiates between the knowing and the place- in many cases, it seeks knowledge systems, Indigenous, scientific and artistic – and by locating them in a common place we seek co- understanding, for valuing the different ways each of us sees a single place that is significant, but differently so, for each perspective.
There was an exhibition of art works from all the artists associated with Strata, curated by Tim Rollason, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, 18- 24 July 2005
Download a PDF of Strata from the Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU.
Australian Forest History Series
- Australia and New Zealand Forest Histories: Short Overviews. Edited by John Dargavel.
Australian Forest History Society Inc. Occasional Publications No. 1 - Australia and New Zealand Forest Histories: Araucarian Forests. Edited by John Dargavel.
Australian Forest History Society Inc. Occasional Publications No. 2
Black Friday
Reviews
If you would like to have your own work listed here then please contact us for inclusion on the site at libby.robin@anu.edu.au
