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Australia, Oceania, and Antarctica :

128071090X

1576076954

9781280710902

9781576076958

1576076946

9781576076941

b776347

Australia, Oceania, and Antarctica :

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a continental overview of environmental issues /

Kevin Hillstrom, Laurie Collier Hillstrom.

Santa Barbara, Calif. :

ABC-CLIO,

2003.

©2003

1 online resource (xxvi, 269 pages).

The world's environments

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Population and Land Use -- Biodiversity -- Parks, Preserves, and Protected Areas -- Forests -- Agriculture -- Freshwater -- Oceans and Coastal Areas -- Energy and Transportation -- Air Quality and the Atmosphere -- Environmental Activism -- Antarctica.

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A concise yet thorough overview of environmental issues, problems, and controversies facing Australia, Oceania, and Antarctica. The paradisiacal islands of the South Pacific. The unworldly landscapes and wildlife of Australia. The frozen expanses of Antarctica. This new title in ABC-CLIO's World Environment Series encompasses some of the most benign-and hellish-places on Earth. How is humanity threatening-and preserving-these diverse and far-flung environments? They are vast, distant, and scarcely populated. Yet the environments of Australia, Oceania, and Antarctica are facing the same threats confronting the rest of the planet, as well as some unique ones of their own. How have human-introduced species impacted Australia's natural order? What new global conventions are helping close Antarctica's ozone hole? And why is global warming threatening the South Pacific's life-teeming coral reefs?; The region's governments are grappling with the spectre of global warming, which, if not meaningfullly addressed by industrialized nations half a world away, could produce rising sea levels capable of engulfing several states of Oceania and partially submerging portions of many other inhabited islands. Australia, Oceania, and Antarctica tackles the difficult issues, tough problems, and political controversies surrounding these lands of extremes.

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Australia, Oceania, and Antarctica.

1576076946

Environmental sciences-- Southern Hemisphere.

Environnement-- Antarctique.

Environnement-- Australie.

Environnement-- Océanie.

Sciences de l'environnement-- Hémisphère sud.

Ecology.

Environmental sciences.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Environmental Policy.

SCIENCE-- Environmental Science (see also Chemistry-- Environmental)

Umweltschutz

Antarctica, Environmental conditions.

Australia, Environmental conditions.

Oceania, Environmental conditions.

Antarctica.

Antarktis

Australia.

Australien

Oceania.

Ozeanien

Southern Hemisphere.

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Hillstrom, Kevin,1963-

Hillstrom, Laurie Collier,1965-

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