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The Great Barrier Reef: History, Science, Heritage
"The Great Barrier Reef: History, Science, Heritage" by James Bowen, Margarita Bowen
CamUniPress | 2003 | 490 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This book provides for the first time a comprehensive cultural and ecological history of European impact, from early voyages of discovery to the most recent developments in Reef science and management.
One of the world's natural wonders, the Great Barrier Reef stretches more than 2000 kilometres in a maze of coral reefs along Australia's north-eastern coastline. Until now, no biographer has brought the fascinating story behind its mystique into public view.
CONTENTS
ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION: AN OVERVIEW
PART ONE. NAVIGATORS AND NATURALISTS IN THE AGE OF SAIL
50 CHAPTER 1 QUEST FOR THE GREAT SOUTH LAND
50 CHAPTER 2 VOYAGE OF THE ENDEAVOUR: COOK AND THE ‘LABYRINTH’
50 CHAPTER 3 ENDEAVOUR NATURALISTS: ‘A SEPARATE CREATION'
50 CHAPTER 4 MATTHEW FLINDERS: VOYAGE OF THE INVESTIGATOR
50 CHAPTER 5 THE REEF EXPLORED: EARLY SURVEYS, 1821-1844
50 CHAPTER 6 EARLY REEF CHARTS COMPLETED: 1846-1862
50 CHAPTER 7 THE REEF AS A MARITIME HIGHWAY: COLONY OF QUEENSLAND, 1859-1900
50 CHAPTER 8 FROM NATURAL HISTORY TO SCIENCE, 1850-1900: VOYAGES OF THE CHALLENGER AND THE CHEVERT
50 CHAPTER 9 EXPLOITATION AND RESOURCE RAIDING: 1860-1890
50 CHAPTER 10 FOR MAXIMUM YIELD: REEF BIOLOGY
PART TWO. ANEW ERA IN REEF AWARENESS: FROM EARLY SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION TO CONSERVATION AND HERITAGE
50 CHAPTER 11 ORIGIN AND STRUCTURE OF CORAL REEFS: FROM FORSTER TO DARWIN
50 CHAPTER 12 DARWIN'S LEGACY: CORAL REEF CONTROVERSY 1863-1923
50 CHAPTER 13 EXPLOITATION CHALLENGED: RISE OF ECOLOGY
50 CHAPTER 14 REEF RESEARCH AND CONTROVERSY: 1920-1930
50 CHAPTER 15 THE LOW ISLES EXPEDITION. 1928-1929: PLANNING AND PREPARATION
50 CHAPTER 16 BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH OF THE LOW ISLES EXPEDITION
50 CHAPTER 17 FROM DEPRESSION TO WAR: TOURISM, CONSERVATION AND SCIENCE, 1929-1939
50 CHAPTER 18 THE PACIFIC WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH
50 CHAPTER 19 ANEW PROBLEM: THE CONSERVATION CONTROVERSY, 1958-1972
50 CHAPTER 20 CRISIS RESOLUTION: FORMATION OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY
50 CHAPTER 21 ANEW ERA: RESEARCH BASED MANAGEMENT
50 CHAPTER 22 THE REEF UNDER PRESSURE: RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT
50 CHAPTER 23 THE REEF AS HERITAGE: A CHALLENGE FOR THE FUTURE
REFERENCES
INDEX
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