Beyond the North-South Culture Wars Reconciling Northern Australia's Recent Past With Its Future /

• Main Author: Dale, Allan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Geography,
• Subjects: Geography.; Climate.; Political science.; Economic geography.; Environment.; Economic Geography.; Political Science.; Environment, general.; Climate, general.

Increasingly, Australia’s agriculturalists are looking to the nation’s north to escape the decline in southern Australia’s water and soil resources. Booming mineral and gas development is also helping to drive the nation’s economic success. At the same time, the south’s conservation sector would lik...

Table of Contents:

• From the Contents: Themes in the North's Recent History
• Understanding the Cultural Divide
• Southern Enclaves - Mining, Tourism and Urban Development
• Enviro-colonialism - World Heritage and the Northern Psyche.