Saving the Reef
Saving the Reef
- Author/Seller
- Rohan Lloyd
- SKU:
- 9780702265754
$33.00
While in the past Australians wrestled with what the Reef is, today they are struggling to
reconcile what it will be… To do this, we need to understand the Reef’s intertwining human
story.
The Great Barrier Reef has come to dominate Australian imaginations and global
environmental politics. In Saving the Reef, environmental historian Rohan Lloyd
charts the social history of Australia’s most prized yet vulnerable environment, from the
relationship between First Nations peoples and colonial settlers, to the Reef’s most
portentous moment – the Save the Reef campaign launched in the 1960s.
Through this gripping historical narrative and interwoven contemporary essays, Lloyd
reveals how the scale of damage caused to the Reef has forced twenty-first century
Australia to reconsider what ‘saving’ the Reef really means.
reconcile what it will be… To do this, we need to understand the Reef’s intertwining human
story.
The Great Barrier Reef has come to dominate Australian imaginations and global
environmental politics. In Saving the Reef, environmental historian Rohan Lloyd
charts the social history of Australia’s most prized yet vulnerable environment, from the
relationship between First Nations peoples and colonial settlers, to the Reef’s most
portentous moment – the Save the Reef campaign launched in the 1960s.
Through this gripping historical narrative and interwoven contemporary essays, Lloyd
reveals how the scale of damage caused to the Reef has forced twenty-first century
Australia to reconsider what ‘saving’ the Reef really means.
