The Gold Coast transformed : from wilderness to urban ecosystem / editors: Tor Hundloe, Bridgette McDougall, and Craig Page
- Bib ID:
- 6573829
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Clayton South, VIC : CSIRO Publishing, [2015]
- ©2015
- xiv, 210 pages, 8 pages of colour plates : illustrations (some colour), colour maps ; 25 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781486303298 (paperback)
- Summary:
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The Gold Coast is one of Australia's premier tourism destinations, a city cut out of coastal vegetation, including paperbark swamps, mangroves and rainforests of worldwide significance. The Gold Coast Transformed is a collection of integrated chapters identifying and assessing the environmental impacts of the building of Australia's sixth largest city. From the time of the first timber-getters through to the present, the book traces the cumulative impacts of humans on the now World Heritage-listed rainforest and surrounding ecosystems. --Back cover.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction: the structure of the book
- 2. The Gold Coast: a snapshot
- 3. The Gold Coast before Cook named Mount Warning
- 4. A brief history of discovery, settlement and development
- 5. The Impact on the Gold Coast's Terrestrial Environments
- 6. The Beaches
- 7. Marine Environments of the Gold Coast: Out with the Old, in with the New
- 8. Wildlife of the Gold Coast Wetlands
- 9. Rainbow Lorikeets, Possums and Pythons: The Wildlife of the Gold Coast
- 10. 'Getting up close and personal': Wildlife of the Gold Coast theme parks
- 11. The Legacy of David Fleay, a pioneering Gold Coast conservationist
- 12. The Pink Poodle, Swimming Pavilions and Miami Ice
- 13. Reducing the Ecological Footprint: The Prospect for Green Energy
- 14. The Gold Coast Business Sector: Meeting the Environmental Challenge
- 15. Planning for the Gold Coast: processes, challenges and opportunities
- 16. State of the Environment
- 17. In Conclusion, Something to Chew On: Native Plant Foods of the Gold Coast
- Appendices.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- 00127151
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- Until 2065 [Created/Published Date + 50 Years]
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- Published
- Publication date:
- 2015
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