Professor Katie Holmes (History, La Trobe University) on when and how did different attitudes to nature developed, what ideas shaped this new view, and the impact it had on human-nature relationships. Copyright 2011 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Australian Environmental History

Environmental Consciousness in the 19th Century

Just two centuries after European settlement, the human impact on the land, massive species extinction, and climate change, pose serious threats to the continent's fragile ecology. Students will consider Australia's early geological history; Indigenous land use; the competing ideas of land and land use among early settlers; and how various forms of land use shaped, and changed the environment.

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Australian Environmental History