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Author Robin, Libby, 1956-

Title Defending the Little Desert : the rise of ecological consciousness in Australia / Libby Robin
Published Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 1998

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Description xii, 203 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 22 cm
Contents Introduction: The little desert -- 1 The dispute -- 2 Crosbie Morrison's National Parks campaign -- 3 The local and the global -- 4 The ecologists -- 5 A Wimmera perspective -- 6 The bureaucrats -- 7 Public participation and new bureaucracies -- 8 Conservation and environmentalism
Summary The conservation campaign to save the Little Desert in Victoria's far north west; includes brief history of the Wotjabaluk people of the Little Desert area and Ebenezer Mission; brief references to Nathaniel Pepper, Phillip Pepper, Bobby Kinnear, Jack Kennedy, Peter Kennedy and land rights activist David Anderson; Goolum Goolum Aboriginal Co-operative
Analysis Community participation
Decision making
Ecosystems
Environmentalism
Land development
Little Desert National Park (Vic)
Natural resource management
Protected areas
State issue
Victoria
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 180-196
Notes Donation. ANU COOP 20120212 Brissenden collection, ANU Library
Signed by author 1 copy. ANU
Subject Anderson, David.
Honey, Valerie
Kennedy, Jack.
Kennedy, Peter.
Kinnear, Robert, 1851-1935
Pepper, Nathaniel, approximately 1841-1877
Pepper, Phillip, 1907-
Taylor, Gwynnyth
Conservation of natural resources -- Australia -- Little Desert National Park (Vic.)
Conservation of natural resources -- Australia -- Victoria -- Little Desert National Park
Conservation of natural resources -- Australia -- Victoria.
Ecosystem management -- Australia -- Little Desert National Park (Vic.)
Environmental policy -- Australia -- Victoria.
Environmental protection -- Citizen participation.
Environmental protection -- Australia -- Citizen participation.
Environmental protection -- Australia -- Victoria -- Citizen participation.
Environmental responsibility -- Australia -- Little Desert National Park (Vic.)
Environmentalism -- Australia.
Environmentalism -- Australia -- Victoria.
Nature conservation -- Australia -- Little Desert National Park (Vic.)
Political campaigns -- Australia -- Victoria.
Political ecology -- Australia.
SUBJECT Little Desert National Park (Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001009539
Little Desert National Park (Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001009539 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
LC no. 00363707
ISBN 0522848311 (paperback)