AUSTRALIAN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY (in progress)

Don Garden, University of Melbourne

Index:

 

BOOKS

Anderson, Jan, Here Today, Everywhere Tomorrow? The effects of introduced plants and animals in Australia (Bookshelf, 1989) [kids book].

Agriculture and Victoria's Environment: 1991 State of the Environment Report (Office of the Commissioner of the Environment, 1992).

Andrews, John (ed.), Frontiers and Men (Melbourne, 1966).

Bailey, K.H. et al (eds), The Peopling of Australia (Melbourne, 1928).

Banks, M. R., & Kirkpatrick, J. B. (eds), Landscape and Man (Hobart, 1977).

Bannear, David, Historic Mining Sites in the Castlemaine/Fryers Creek Mining Division, DCNR 1993.

Barr, N. & Cary, J., Greening a Brown Land: the Australian Search for Sustainable Land Use (South Melbourne, 1992).

Barrett, Bernard, The Inner Suburbs: The Evolution of an Industrial Area (MUP 1971).

Barrett, James, National Parks of Victoria (Melbourne, 1920).

Barrett, James (ed), Save Australia: A Plea for the Right Use of our Flora and Fauna (1925).

Beale, Bob & Fray, Peter, The Vanishing Continent: Australia's Degraded Environment (Sydney, 1990).

Bean, C.E.W., In Your Hands Australia (London 1919).

Bence, Bruce, The Story of a Community's Fight Against Fire (Warrandyte, 1989).

Bentley, Arthur, An Introduction to the Deer of Australia with Special Reference to Victoria (Koetung Trust, Melbourne, 1967, rev 1972).

Birch, Charles, Confronting the Future (1st edit Penguin 1975, 2nd edit, Penguin 1993).

Birckhead, Jim, et al (eds), Aboriginal Involvement in Parks and Protected Areas (Canberra, 1992).

Birrell, Robert, Hill, Doug & Stanley, John, Quarry Australia?: Social and environmental perspectives on managing the nation's resources (OUP, 1982).

Bishop, J.E., Selected Writings (Sydney 1932).

Blainey, Geoffrey, A Land Half Won (Macmillan 1980).

Blainey, Geoffrey, Triumph of the Nomads: A History of Ancient Australia (Macmillan, 1975).

Bligh, Beatrice, Cherish the earth: the story of gardening in Australia (Sydney: Ure Smith in association with The National Trust of Australia (N.S.W. 1973) Also a 1980 edit?.

Bolton, Geoffrey, Spoils and Spoilers: Australians Make Their Environment 1788-1980 (Sydney, 1981) & 2nd edition, 1992.

Bonyhady, Tim, Images in Opposition: Australian Landscape Painting 1801-1890 (Melbourne, 1985).

Bonyhady, Tim, Places Worth Keeping: Conservationists, Politics and the Law (Allen & Unwin 1993).

Boyden, S., Dovers, S. & Shirlow, M. (eds?), Our Biosphere Under Threat: Economic Realities and Australian Opportunities (OUP, 1990).

Brady, Anita, A Centenary History of Tower Hill (Conservation and Natural Resources, 1992).

Brady, E. J., Australia Unlimited (Melbourne,1918).

Brady, E. J. & Rubinstein, Leslie, Dreams and Realities,  (Melbourne, 1944).

Breckwoldt, Roland, A Very Elegant Animal: The Dingo (A&R, 1988).

Brennan, Andrew (ed), The Ethics of the Environment (Dartmouth, 1995).

Bromby, R., The Farming of Australia (Doubleday, 1986).

Brown, Bob & Singer, Peter, The Greens (Melbourne, 1996).

Burgmann, Meredith & Burgmann, Verity, Green Bans, Red Union: Environmental activism and the New South Wales Builders Labourers’ Federation, UNSWP, 1998.

Burgmann, Verity, Power and Protest: Movements for Social Change in Australian Society (Allen & Unwin, 1993).

Cameron, J.M.R., Ambition's Fire: The Agricultural Colonization of Pre-Convict Western Australia (Perth, 1981).

Carr, D.J. & S.G.M. (eds), People and Plants in Australia (Sydney, 1981).

Carr, D.J. & S.G.M. (eds), Plants and Man in Australia (Sydney, 1981).

Carron, L.T., A History of Forestry in Australia (Canberra, 1985).

Carter, Paul, The Road to Botany Bay: An Essay in Spatial History (London, 1987).

Carter, Paul, Living in a New Country: History, Travelling and Language (London, 1992).

Carron, L.T.,A History of Forestry in Australia, UNUP 1985) .

Chisholm, Alec H. (ed), Land of Wonder: An Illustrated Anthology of the Best of Australian Nature Writing (Sydney, 1979).

Collins, Paul, Good Earth: Religion as if it really Mattered (Dove, 1995).

Coman, Brian, Tooth & Nail: The Story of the Rabbit in Australia (Text Publishing 1999).

Coward, Dan H., Out of Sight: Sydney's Environmental History, 1851-1981 (Canberra, 1988).

Crittenden, Victor, A History of Australian Gardening Books and a Bibliography 1806-1950 (Canberra CAE 1986).

Cuffley, P., Cottage Gardens in Australia. (Canterbury, Vic, 1983: The Five Mile Press).

Dargavel, John, Fashioning Australia’s Forests (OUP 1995).

Dargarvel, John & Feary, Sue (eds) Australia’s Ever-Changing Forests II: Proceedings of the Second national Conference on Australian forest history (ANU 1993).

Davidson, B.R., Australia--Wet or Dry? The Physical and Economic Limits to the Expansion of Irrigation, MUP, 1969.

Davidson, B., European Farming in Australia: An Economic History of Australian Farming (Amsterdam, 1981).

Davidson, B.R., The Northern Myth: Limits to Agricultural and Pastoral Development in Tropical Australia (MUP, first published 1965, 3rd edition 1972).

Davison, G, Dunstan, D. & McConville, C., Outcasts of Melbourne: Essays in Social History (Allen & Unwin 1985).

Dingle, Tony, Settling (Sydney, 1984).

Dingle, Tony & Rasmussen, Carolyn, Vital Connections: Melbourne and its Board of Works 1891-1991 (McPhee Gribble, 1991).

Dixon, Robert, The Course of Empire: Neo-Classical Culture in New South Wales 1788-1860 (Melbourne, 1986).

Douglas, M.H. & O'Brien, L. (eds), The Natural History Of Western Victoria (Horsham, 1971).

Dovers, Stephen (ed), Essays in Australian Environmental History: Essays and Cases (OUP, 1994).

Drayson, Nick (ed), The Literature of Australian Natural History (ADFA, Canberra, 1966).

Finney, C.M., To Sail Beyond the Sunset: Natural History in Australia 1699-1829 (Adelaide, 1984).

Finlayson, H.H., The Red Centre: Man and Beast in the Heart of Australia (Sydney, 1935).

Fitzgerald, Shirley, Rising Damp: Sydney 1870-90 (OUP 1987).

Flannery, Tim (ed), The Explorers, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 1998.

Flannery, Tim, The Future Eaters, An Ecological History of the Australian Lands and People (Sydney, 1994).

Flannery, Tim (ed), Watkin Tench, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 1996.

Foster, J. H., Victorian Picturesque: The Colonial Gardens of William Sangster (Melbourne, 1989).

Frankenburg, Judith, Nature Conservation in Victoria: A Survey (Victorian National Parks Association, 1971).

Frawley, K.J., Exploring Some Australian Images of Environment (ACT, 1987).

Frawley, K.J. & Semple, N. (eds), Australia's Ever Changing Forests (Canberra, 1988) .

Frith, H.J., Wildlife Conservation (A&R, 1973).

Garden, Don (ed), Created Landscapes: Historians and the Environment (Carlton, 1993).

Garran, J.C. & White, L., Merinos, myths and Macarthurs: Australian Graziers and Their Sheep, 1788-1900 (Sydney, 1985).

Gell, Peter & Mercer, David, Victoria's Rainforests: Perspectives on Definition, Classification and Management (Monash Publications in Geography, No 41, 1992).

Gill, A.M., Groves, R.H. & Noble, I.R., Fire and the Australian Biota (Canberra, 1981).

Gilpin, Alan, The Australian Environment: 12 Controversial Issues (Sun Books, 1980).

Goldstein, W. (ed), Australia's 100 Years of National Parks (Sydney, 1979).

Grant, J. & Serle, G., The Melbourne Scene 1803-1956 (MUP, 1957).

Gregory, J.W., The Dead Heart of Australia (1906).

Gregory, J.W., Human Migration and the Future(1928).

Griffiths, Tom, Hunters and Collectors, CUP, 1995.

Griffiths, Tom, Secrets of the Forest: Discovering History in Melbourne's Ash Range (Allen & Unwin, 1993).

Groves, R.H. (ed), Australian Vegetation (2nd ed., CUP, 1994).

Hall, Colin Michael, Wasteland to World Heritage: Preserving Australia's Wilderness (MUP 1992).

Hallam, Sylvia, J., Fire and Hearth: a study of Aboriginal Usage and European usurpation in south-western Australia (Canberra, 1975).

Hancock, W.K., Australia (London, 1930).

Hancock, W.K., Economists, Ecologists and Historians, Perth 1974.

The Heritage of Australia: The Illustrated Register of the National Estate (Macmillan, 1981).

Heathcote, R.L. (ed), The Australian Experience: Essays in Australian Land Settlement and Resource Management, Longman Cheshire, Melbourne, 1988.

Heyligers, P.C., The Natural History of the Tasmanian, Manjimup and Eden-Bombal Woodchip Export Concession Areas, CSIRO, Canberra, 1977).

Hicks, Neville, 'This Sin and Scandal': Australia's Population Debate 1891-1911 (Canberra, 1978).

The History of the battle to save Kelly’s Bush and the Green Ban Movement in the early 1970s (Buckleys, Petersham, NSW, 1996).

Home, R.W. (ed), Australian Sciences in the Making (CUP, 1988).

Hutton, Drew & Connors, Libby, A History of the Australian Environmental Movement, CUP, 1999.

Jackson, R.V., The Population History of Australia,  (Melbourne, 1988).

Jameson, B., Movement at the Station: The Revolt of the Mountain Cattlemen (Sydney, 1987).

Jeans, D.N., The Heritage of Australia (South Melbourne, 1981).

Jeans, D.N., An Historical Geography of New South Wales to 1901 (Sydney, 1972).

Keast, Allen (ed), Ecological Biogeography of Australia (The Hague, 1981), 3 Vol's - Vol 1 most relevant.

Keast, A., Crocker, R.L. & Christian, C. S. (eds), Biogeography and Ecology in Australia (The Hague, 1959).

Keating, Jenny, The Drought Walked Through: A History of Water Shortage in Victoria (Dep't of Water Resources, Vic., 1992).

Kelly, Max (ed), Nineteenth Century Sydney: Essays in Urban History (SUP 1978).

Kesby, J.A. & Frawley, K.J., The Forest Record in Australian Local and Regional History: An Annotated Bibliography (ACT, 1989).

King, A.R., Influence of Colonisation on the Forests and the Prevalence of Bushfires in Australia (CSIRO 1963).

Kirkpatrick, Jamie, A Continent Transformed: Human Impact on the Natural Vegetation of Australia (OUP 1994).

Kirwan, Sir John, An Empty Land: Pioneers and Pioneering in Australia (London, 1934).

Kohen, James, Aboriginal Environmental Impacts (UNSW Press, 1995).

Lack, John, A History of Footscray (Hargreen 1992).

Lawrence, Geoffrey, Vanclay, Frank & Furze, Brian (eds), Agriculture, Environment and Society: Contemporary Issues for Australia (Macmillan, 1992).

Lawrence, Geoffrey, Capitalism and the Countryside (Sydney, 1987).

Lines, William J., Taming the Great South Land (A&R, 1991).

Low, Tim, Feral Future: The Untold Story of Australia’s Exotic Invaders, Viking, 1999.

McCarthy, Mike, Settlers and Sawmillers: A History of West Gippsland Tramways and the Industries They Served (Light Railway Research Society of Australia, 1993).

McRae, Heather, Forest History in Victoria: A Guide to Government Records 1836-1994 (Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, 1994).

Marshall, A.J., The Great Extermination: a Guide to Anglo-Australian Cupidity Wickedness and Waste (London, 1966).

Marshall, Peter, Nature's Web: An Exploration of Ecological Thinking (Simon & Schuster 1992).

Martin, C.S., Irrigation and Closer Settlement in the Shepparton District, 1836-1906 (MUP 1955).

Martin, Stephen, A New Land: European Perceptions of Australia 1788-1850 (Allen & Unwin, 1993).

Mayne, A.J.C., Fever, Squalor and Vice: Sanitation and Social Policy in Victorian Sydney (UQP 1982).

Mayne, Alan, Representing the Slum: Popular Journalism in a Late Nineteenth Century City ((Carlton, 1990).

Meinig, D.W., On the Margins of the Good Earth: the South Australian Wheat Frontier, 1869-84 (Chicago, 1962).

Mercer, D., A Question of Balance: Natural Resources Conflict Issues in Australia (Sydney, 1991).

Messer, J. & Mosley, G. (eds), What Future for Australia's Arid Lands? (Melbourne, 1982).

Moorehead, Alan, The Fatal Impact: The Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840 (Hamish Hamilton, 1966).

Morgan, Sharon, Land Settlement in Early Tasmania: Creating an Antipodean England (CUP, 1992).

Mosley, J.G. (ed), Australia's Wilderness: Conservation Progress and Plans (Melbourne, 1978).

Mosley, J.G & Messer, J. (eds), Fighting for Wilderness (1984).

Moulds, F.R. The Dynamic Forest: A History of Forestry and Forest Industries in Victoria (Richmond, 1991).

Moyal, Ann, A Bright and Savage Land: Scientists in Colonial Australia (Ist published 1986, Penguin 1993).

Mulvaney, D.J. (ed), The Humanities and the Australian Environment (Canberra, 1991).

Nance, C., & Speight, D.L., A Land Transformed: Environmental Change in South Australia (Melbourne, 1986).

Noble, W.S., Ordeal by Fire: The Week a State Burned Up, Melbourne, 1977.

O’Connor, Mark, This Tired Brown Land, Duff & Snellgrove, Sydney, 1998.

Ovington, J.D., Australian Endangered Species: Mammals, Birds and Reptiles (Sydney, 1978).

Parsons, W.J., Noxious Weeds in Victoria (Melbourne, 1976).

Pennycuick, Rae, Keeping Rabbits Out (Warwick, 1995?).

Pescott, R.T.M. W.R. Guilfoyle 1840-1912 The Master of Landscaping. (Melbourne, 1974: OUP).

Pick, Jock, H., Australia's Dying Heart (MUP, 1942).

Pizzey, Graham, Crosbie Morrison - Voice of Nature (Victoria Press, Melbourne, 1992).

Powell, J.M., The Emergence of Bioregionalism in the Murray-Darling Basin (Murray-Darling Basin Commission, 1993).

Powell, J.M., Environmental Management in Australia 1788-1914 (Melbourne, OUP, 1976).

Powell, J.M., Griffith Taylor and "Australia Unlimited" (UQP 1993).

Powell, J.M., An Historical Geography Of Modern Australia: The Restive Fringe (CUP, 1988).

Powell, J.M. (ed), The Making of Rural Australia (Melbourne, 1974).

Powell, J.M., Mirrors of the New World: Images and Image-Makers in the Settlement Process (Folkestone, 1977).

Powell, J.M., Plains of Promise Rivers of Destiny: Water Management and the Development of Queensland 1824-1990 (Brisbane, 1991).

Powell, J.M., The Public Lands of Australia Felix: Settlement and Land Appraisal in Victoria 1834-91 With Special Reference to the Western Plains (Melbourne, 1970).

Powell, J.M., Watering the Garden State: Water, Land and Community in Victoria 1834-1988 (Sydney, 1989).

Pyne, Stephen J., Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia (Allen & Unwin, 1992).

Rapoport, Amos (ed.), Australia as Human Setting (Sydney, 1972).

Ratcliffe, Francis N., Conservation and Australia, ACF, Canberra, 1968.

Ratcliffe, Francis, Flying Fox and Drifting Sand (1938).

Rickard, John, Australia: A Cultural History (Longman, 1988).

Ritchie, R., Seeing the Rainforests in Nineteenth Century Australia (Sydney, 1989).

Robin, Libby, Building a Forest Conscience: An Historical Porttait of the National Resources Conservation League of Victroria (NRCL) (Springvale, 1991).

Robin, Libby, Defending the Little Desert: The Rise of Ecological Consciousness in Australia, MUP, 1998.

Rolls, Eric, From Forest to Sea: Australia's Changing Environment (UQP, 1993).

Rolls, Eric, A Million Wild Acres (Penguin edition, 1984).

Rolls, Eric, More a New Planet Than a New Continent (CRES Paper 3, Canberra, 1985) [Centre for Research and Environmental Studies, ANU]: also in From Forest to Sea.

Rolls, Eric, They All Ran Wild: The Animals and Plants that Plague Australia (A&R, 1984).

Routley, R. & V., The Fight for the Forests, RSSS, Australian National University, 1973.

Russell, J.& Isbell, R. (eds), Australian Soils: The Human Impact (UQP, 1986).

Saunders, D.A. Hopkins, A.J.M. & How, R. (eds), Australian Ecosystem: 200 Years of Utilization, Degradation and Reconstruction, Proceedings of the Ecological Society of Australia, 16, 1989.

Saunders, D.S., The Role of the National Parks Service (Melbourne, 1978).

Schaffer, Kay, Women and the Bush: Forces of Desire in the Australian Cultural Tradition (CUP, 1988), Chap. 4, Landscape and National Identity.

Seddon, George, Landprints: Reflections on Place and Landscape (CUP, 1997).

Seddon, George & Davis, Mari, Man and Landscape: Towards an Ecological Vision (Australian Unesco Committee, 1976).

Serventy, Vincent, A Continent in Danger (Andre Deutsch, 1966).

Shaw, A.G.L. (ed.), Victoria's Heritage (Melbourne, 1986).

Short, John R., Imagined country: environment, culture, and society (Routledge, Chapman, and Hall, 1991).

Singer, Peter, Animal Liberation: Towards an End to Man's Inhumanity to Animals (London, 1976).

Smith, Bernard, European Vision and the South Pacific 1767-1850 (London, 1960).

Smith, Bernard, Documents on Art and Taste in Australia (Melbourne, 1975).

Smith, David, Continent in Crisis (Penguin, 1990).

Smith, J.M.B. (ed), The Unique Continent: An Introductory Reader in Australian Environmental Studies (QUP, 1992).

Stanbury, P. & Phipps, G., Australia's Animals Discovered (Sydney, 1980).

Stodart, E. & Parer, I., Colonisation of Australia by the Rabbit (CSIRO 1988).

Tame, Adrian & Robotham, F.P.J., Maralinga: British A-Bomb Australian Legacy,  (Fontana 1982).

[Tanner, Howard], Converting the Wilderness: The Art of Gardening in Colonial Australia (1979).

Taylor, Griffith, Australia: A Study of Warm Environments and Their Effect on British Settlement (London, 1940 - ERC edit. 1955).

Taylor, Griffith, The Australian Environment (Melbourne, 1918).

Taylor, Griffith, Australian Meteorology (Oxford, 1920).

Taylor, Griffith, Journeyman Taylor (London, 1958).

Thompson, G.T., A Brief History of Soil Conservation in Victoria, 1834-1961, Soil Conservation Authority, Melbourne, 1971.

Toyne, Philip, The Reluctant Nation,.

Vandenbeld, John, Nature of Australia: A Portrait of the Island Continent (New York, 1988).

Walker, K.J., Australian Environmental Policy, UNSW Press, 1992.

Watson, I., Fighting For the Forests (Sydney, 1990).

Webb, Leonard, J., Environmental Boomerang (Milton, 1973).

Westbrook, Phillipa & Farhall, John (eds), What State is the Garden In?, CCV & Native Forests Action Council, Melbourne, 1980.

Wheeler, Graeme, The Scroggin Eaters: A History of Bushwalking in Victoria (Melbourne, VicWalk, 1991).

White, D.C. & Elliott, C.S. (eds), Man, The Earth and Tomorrow, Cassells, North Melbourne, 1969.

Whitelock, D, Conquest to Conservation: History of Human Impact on the South Australian Environment, UNSW Press, 1985.

Williams, Michael, The Making of the South Australian Landscape (London, 1974).

Woodburn, J.L.F. (ed), Irrigation and Closer Settlement in the Shepparton District 1836-1906 (Carlton, 1955).

Woodgate, P. & Black, P., Forest Cover Changes in Victoria 1869-1987, Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands, Melbourne, 1988.

Woods, L., Land Degradation in Australia (AGPS, Canberra, 1984).

Wright, Ray, The Bureaucrats' Domain: Space and the Public Interest in Victoria 1836-84 (OUP, 1989).

The Heritage of Australia (Melbourne, 1981).

Young, D. Hastings, A White Australia Is It Possible? (Melbourne 1922).

 

REGIONAL/LOCAL STUDIES

Gammage, Bill, Narrandera Shire (Narrandera Shire Council 1986).

Gell, P., & Stuart, I., Human Settlement and Environmental Impact: The Delegate River Catchment, East Gippsland, Victoria (Monash University, Melbourne, 1989).

Hancock, Discovering Monaro: A Study of Man's Impact on his Environment (Cambridge, 1972).

Heathcote, R.L., Back of Bourke (Melbourne, 1965).

Perry, T.H., Australia's First Frontier: the Spread of Settlement in New South Wales (Melbourne, 1963).

Seddon, George, Searching for the Snowy, An Environmental History (Allen & Unwin, 1984).

Seddon, George., Swan River Landscapes (Nedlands, 1970).

 

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

Adamson, D. & Fox, M.D., 'Change in Australian Vegetation Since European Settlement' in Smith, J.M.B. (ed), A History of Australasian Vegetation (Sydney, 1982).

Alexandra, Jason, 'Wilderness - Cultivated Myths and Colonial Battle Grounds' (typescript, 1995 in my file and in Environmental Economics Conference Papers).

Bowdler, Sandra, 'Rainforest: colonised or coloniser?', Australian Archaeology, No. 17, 1983.

Aulciems, Andris & Deaves, Stuart, “Clothing, heat and settlement’, in Heathcote, R.L. (ed), The Australian Experience: Essays in Australian Land Settlement and Resource Management, Longman Cheshire, Melbourne, 1988.

Australian Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol 8, No 1, Jan 1994 (Special edit on cultural studies and the environment).

Brady, Anita, ‘Cultural significance of East Gippsland Forests’ in Dargarvel, John & Feary, Sue (eds) Australia’s Ever-Changing Forests II: Proceedings of the Second national Conference on Australian forest history, ANU 1993.

Brown-May, Andrew & Maroske, Sara, 'Breaking into the Quietude: Re-reading the personal Life of Ferdinand von Mueller', Public History Review, Vol. 3, 1994.

Burt, R.L. & Williams, W.T., 'Plant Introduction in Australia', in Home, R.W. (ed), Australian Sciences in the Making (CUP, 1988).

Cameron, J.M.R., 'Information Distortion in Colonial Promotion: the Case of the Swan River Colony', Australian Geographical Studies, 12, 1976.

Cameron, J.M.R., 'Poison Plants in Western Australia and coloniser problem solving', Journal of Royal Society of Western Australia, vol 59, no 3, 1977.

Carrick, Robert & Costin, Alec B., 'Nature Conservation in Australia' in Keast, A., Crocker, R.L. & Christian, C. S. (eds), Biogeography and Ecology in Australia (The Hague, 1959).

Cohen, Barry, 'The Franklin Saga' in Martin, Vance & Inglis, Mary (eds), Wilderness : The Way Ahead (Findhorn Press, 1984).

Conacher, Arthur & Jeanette, ‘The exploitation of the soils’, Heathcote, R.L. (ed), The Australian Experience: Essays in Australian Land Settlement and Resource Management, Longman Cheshire, Melbourne, 1988.

Cronon, William, 'The Uses of Environmental History', Environmental History Review, Vol 17, No 3, 1993.

Daley, C. S., 'Baron Sir Ferdinand von Mueller, K.C.M.G., M.D., F.R.S.; Botanist, Explorer and Geographer', Victorian Historical Magazine, 1924.

Daly, Trevor J., ‘Discovering Hancock: A profile of an Australian Environmental Historian (W.K. Hancock)’, Limina, Vol. 4, 1998.

Dodd, Alan P., 'The Biological Control of prickly Pear in Australia' in Keast, A., Crocker, R.L. & Christian, C. S. (eds), Biogeography and Ecology in Australia (The Hague, 1959).

Flanagan, Richard, 'Wilderness and History', Public History Review, Vol. 1, 1992.

Flannery, Timothy, 'Biological Considerations in determining an optimum human population for Australia', Population 2040, Proceedings of the Symposium (1994), Australian Academy of Science.

Flannery, Tim, 'Australian Wilderness: An Impossible Dream?', Australian Natural History, 1988.

Flannery, T. & Gott, B., ‘The Spring Creek Locality, Southwestern Victoria, a Late Surviving Megafaunal Assemblage’, Australian Zoology, 21 ($), 1984.

Ferguson, K.V.M., 'Clearing of Timber from Farm Lands', Journal of Agriculture Victoria, vol 55, 1957.

Fox, F., ‘What's in a historic garden? The Village Garden and the Landscape.' 1986 Historic Gardens Conference. (typescript obtained from P. McMahon).

Frawley, K., 'The Foundations of Professional Forestry in Australia', Forest and Timber, vol 18, no.1, 1982.

Frost, Alan, 'New South Wales as Terra Nullius; The British Denial of Aboriginal Land rights', Historical Studies, Vol. 19, No. 77, October 1981.

Frost, Alan, 'What Created, What Perceived? Early Responses to New South Wales', Australian Literary Studies, 7/2, October 1975.

Gardener, C., McIvor, J. & Williams, J., 'Dry Tropical Rangelands: Solving One Problem and Creating Another', Proceedings of the Ecological Society of Australia, 16, 1990.

Gillbank, Linden, ‘Nineteenth Century Perceptions of Victorian Forests: ideas and concerns of Ferdinand Mueller’ Dargarvel, John & Feary, Sue (eds) Australia’s Ever-Changing Forests II: Proceedings of the Second national Conference on Australian forest history, ANU 1993, in.

Gilbank, Linden, 'The Origins of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria: Practical Science in the Wake of the Gold Rush', Historical Records of Australian Science, Vol 6, No 3, , Dec 1986.

Gilbert, A., 'The State and Nature of Australia', Australian Cultural History, 1, 1981.

Gill, A.M., 'Fire and the Australian Flora: a Review', Australian Forestry, no.38, 1975.

Goodman, David, 'Gold fields/golden fields: the language of agrarianism and the Victorian gold rush', Australian Historical Studies, Vol. 23, No. 90, April 1988.

Griffiths, Tom, 'Black Fridays', Arena, April 1994.

Griffiths, Tom, '"The Natural History of Melbourne": the culture of nature writing in Victoria 1880-1945', Australian Historical Studies, No. 93, October 1989.

Griffiths, Tom, 'History and natural history: conservation movements in conflict?', Rickard, J. & Spearrit, P., Packaging the Past? (Australian Historical Studies, 1991).

Griffiths, Tom, ‘Secrets of the forest: writing environmental history’ in Dargarvel, John & Feary, Sue (eds) Australia’s Ever-Changing Forests II: Proceedings of the Second national Conference on Australian forest history, ANU 1993.

Hay, P, ‘The Environmental Movement: Romanticism Reborn’, Island, No. 27, Winter, 1986.

Heathcote, R.L, ‘Drought in Australia: A Problem of Perception’, The Geographical Review, Vol. LIX, No. 2, April, 1969.

Hirst, John, 'The Pioneer Legend', in Carroll, John (ed), Intruders in the Bush: The Australian Quest for Identity (OUP 1982).

Horton, D.R., 'The Burning Question: Aborigines, Fire and Australian Ecosystems', Mankind, 13, 1982.

Jones, Rhys, 'Fire-stick Farming', Australian Natural History, Vol. 16, 1969.

Lennon, Jane, ‘Timeless Wilderness? The Use of Historical Source Material in Understanding Environmental Change in Gippsland, Victoria’, in Frawley, Kevin J., and Semple, Noel M. (eds), Australia’s Ever Changing Forests… etc .

Le Souef, Cecil, 'Acclimatisation in Victoria', Victorian Historical Magazine', Vol 36, February 1965.

McColl, J.H., 'Hugh McColl and the Water Question in Northern Victoria', Victorian Historical Magazine, Vol. V, No. 4, June 1917.

McGowan, B., 'Goyder's Line', Heritage Australia, Spring 1990.

McNiven, Ian & Russell, Lynette, 'Place with a Past: Reconciling wilderness and the Aboriginal past in World Heritage Areas', Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, vol XV, no 11, May 1995.

McIntyre, S., 'Invasion of a Nation: Our Role in the Management of Exotic Plants in Australia', Australian Biologist, 3, 1990.

Mathews, Freya, 'When the Planet Sings to Us', Res Publica, Vol. 2, no. 1, 1993.

Meinig, D.W., 'Goyder's Line of Rainfall: The Role of a Geographic Concept in South Australian Land Policy and Agricultural Settlement'. Agricultural History, No. 35.

Mercer, David, ‘Victoria’s land Conservation Council and the Alpine Region’, Australian Geographical Studies, vol. 17, no. 2, Oct. 1979.

Moon, Karen, 'Aesthetic Qualities of the South Australian Landscape', Flinders Journal of History and Politics, 2 July 1970.

Moon, Karen, 'Perception and Appraisal of the South Australian Landscape 1836-1850', Proceedings, Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (S.A.), Vol 70, 1969.

Mosley, Geoff, ‘The Australian conservation movement’ in Heathcote, R.L. (ed), The Australian Experience: Essays in Australian Land Settlement and Resource Management, Longman Cheshire, Melbourne, 1988.

Moulds, Frank, ‘Tall Stories and Tall Trees’ in Dargarvel, John & Feary, Sue (eds) Australia’s Ever-Changing Forests II: Proceedings of the Second national Conference on Australian forest history, ANU 1993.

Moulds, Frank, ‘Victorian School of Forestry: Forestry education’ in Dargarvel, John & Feary, Sue (eds) Australia’s Ever-Changing Forests II: Proceedings of the Second national Conference on Australian forest history, ANU 1993.

Mulvaney, D.J., 'Reflections on the Future of Past Colonial Landscapes', Historic Environment, vol. 7, no. 2, 1989.

Murray, Les, 'Eric Rolls and the Golden Disobedience', in Persistence in Folly (A&R, 1984).

Newson, H.J. & Saunders, D.S, 'The National Park Concept in Victoria - History and Changing Attitudes', Victoria's Resources, vol 18, no 4, Dec 1976.

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