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. Ed(S): Hundloe, Tor; Mcdougall, Bridgette; Page, Craig - The Gold Coast Transformed. From Wilderness to Urban Ecosystem.  - 9781486303298 - V9781486303298
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The Gold Coast Transformed. From Wilderness to Urban Ecosystem.

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Description for The Gold Coast Transformed. From Wilderness to Urban Ecosystem. Paperback. Looks at the impacts of environmentally destructive development on the Gold Coast's beaches, wildlife, and terrestrial and marine environments. Editor(s): Hundloe, Tor; McDougall, Bridgette; Page, Craig. Num Pages: 224 pages, Colour photographs, Maps, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBFQ; RNP; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 170. Weight in Grams: 568.
The Gold Coast is Australia's premier tourism destination, 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. It traces the cumulative impacts from the day the first timber-getter entered what is now World Heritage-listed rainforest through to the present.

The city's natural and engineered environments are both fascinating and vulnerable. The construction of massive high-rise apartment blocks, on what were frontal beach dunes, is one of the fundamental ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
CSIRO Publishing Australia
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Melbourne, Australia
ISBN
9781486303298
SKU
V9781486303298
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2

About . Ed(S): Hundloe, Tor; Mcdougall, Bridgette; Page, Craig
Tor Hundloe is Professor of Environmental Science and Management, Bond University, Australia. He is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Management, the University of Queensland, Australia and Adjunct Professor, the Environment School, Griffith University, Australia. Bridgette McDougall is a graduate from Bond University, Australia, and is a Tutor in the field of sustainability science while she pursues a higher degree in ... Read more

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