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

by Kevin Hillstrom, Laurie Collier Hillstrom

Overview

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

ISBN-13:	9781576076941
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/19/2003
Series:	The World's Environments
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

About the Author

Kevin Hillstrom and Laurie Collier Hillstrom are professional writers. Their published works include all six volumes in ABC-CLIO's World Environments series.