Australia, Oceania, & Antarctica - A Continental Overview of Environmental Issues

A concise yet thorough overview of environmental issues, problems, and controversies facing Australia, Oceania, and Antarctica. They are vast, distant, and scarcely populated. Yet the environments of Australia, Oceania, and Antarctica are facing the same threats confronting the rest of the planet, as well as some unique ones of their own. How have human-introduced species impacted Australia''s natural order? What new global conventions are helping close Antarctica''s ozone hole? And how is global climate change threatening the South Pacific''s species-rich coral reefs? The region''s governments are grappling with the spectre of global warming, which, if not meaningfullly addressed by industrialized nations half a world away, could produce rising sea levels capable of engulfing several states of Oceania and partially submerging portions of many other inhabited islands. Australia, Oceania, and Antarctica tackles the difficult issues, tough problems, and political controversies surrounding these lands of extremes.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin Hillstrom, Laurie Collier Hillstrom, Hillstrom Kevin, Hillstrom Laurie Collier
• Assisted by: Kevin Hillstrom (Editor), Laurie Collier Hillstrom (Editor)
• Publisher: Abc Clio Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 12
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.11.2003
• EAN: 9781576076941
• ISBN: 978-1-57607-694-1
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: The World's Environments
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Australia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Antarctica, Pollution & threats to the environment, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Pollution and threats to the environment, Oceania, Oceania / Pacific Islands