Description
SECOND HAND BOOK
Australia, the driest inhabited continent on earth, is poetically encapsulated by Dorothea Mackeller as a land “of drought and flooding rains”. Any development of the landscape is dependent on both harnessing a scarce water resource and managing its periodic fury. For the past two centuries, development and water have been inextricably entwined.
“In Queensland the pioneering ethos is no archival treasure, but rather the robust foundation of a continuing sequence of achievements”. Whereas the southern states have now largely entered a post-development phase in water management, in Queensland the frontier state still exists physically as well as in the psyche of its water administrators.
Plains of Promise, Rivers of Destiny is more than a history of water resources development or of the bureaucracy charged with that task. It explores the indissoluble links between land use and water in a style both scholarly and entertaining.
Specifications:
Condition: Good. General signs of use.
Publisher: Boolarong Publications
Year: 1991
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 395
ISBN: 0724244700
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