Australia, Oceania, & Antarctica: A Continental Overview of Environmental Issues (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781576076941)

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.

Author: Kevin Hillstrom,Laurie Collier Hillstrom
ISBN-10: 1576076946
ISBN-13: 9781576076941
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Language: English
Published: 11/19/2003
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.02w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 04/01/2004 pg. 96
American Reference Bks Annual 01/01/2005 pg. 727