TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rothenburg,Daniel
TI  - Irrigation, Salinity, and Rural Communities in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin, 1945-2020
T2  - Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History,
SN  - 9783031184512
U1  - 304.209 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - History
KW  - Australasia
KW  - Social history
KW  - Environmental History
KW  - Australian History
KW  - Social History
N1  - 1. Introduction  -- 2. History, Geography, and Geology  -- 3. Antecedents  -- 4. The Dialectic of Environmental Security (1945-1976)  -- 5. A Time of Crisis (1976-1982)  -- 7. Community Activism (1966-1988)  -- 8. A New World (1979-1994)  -- 9. Under Control? (1988-2017)  -- 10. Conclusion
N2  - This book explores the issue of salinization in the context of contemporary conflicts about irrigation, water, and the environment in Australia, considering the Murray-Darling Basin in particular. It provides an environmental and social history charting the transformation of rural communities in the basin through the salinization of soils and water. Focusing on the Goulburn-Murray Irrigation district in the southwest of the Murray-Darling basin - the largest irrigation district in Australia - it explores the history of state-directed, large-scale engineering in the district, where the environment has been altered dramatically to facilitate white agricultural settlement inland. Changes to the landscape led to extensive salinization, however - a significant environmental threat in Australia. This book traces the impact of these changes on rural communities, taking a 'bottom-up' approach, highlighting the connections between environmental, social, and political change. It provides an important reflection on the importance of environmental history for facing the challenges posed by anthropogenic climate change. Daniel Rothenburg is Scientific Coordinator and Research Associate at the Collaborative Research Center 923 "Threatened Order", University of Tübingen, Germany
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18451-2
ER  -