1.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00320122

Autore

DRABKINA, Elisaveta

Titolo

Gli ultimi giorni di Lenin / Elisaveta Drabkina

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma, : Tindalo, 1970

Descrizione fisica

187 p. ; 21 cm.

Soggetti

LENIN - BIOGRAFIE

LENIN VLADIMIR IL'IČ

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910960457603321

Autore

Wright Judith

Titolo

The coral battleground

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Melbourne, : Spinifex Press, 2014

ISBN

1-74219-901-1

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Disciplina

333.7

333.9

333.95

Soggetti

Conservation of natural resources -- Australia -- Great Barrier Reef (Qld.)

Coral reef ecology -- Australia -- Great Barrier Reef (Qld.)

Environmental protection -- Australia -- Great Barrier Reef (Qld.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; About the Author; Other books by Judith Wright; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Publishers' Preface; Foreword, 2014 by Margaret Thorsborne, AO; Foreword, 1996 by Judith Wright;



Foreword, 1977 by Judith Wright; Introduction; 1. The First Manoeuvres; 2. The Government, Science and the Reef; 3. Move and Counter-move; 4. Tragedy Abroad; 5. Geologists versus Biologists; 6. People Take a Hand; 7. The Unions Move In; 8. A Halt, and a Surrender; 9. Quarrels and a Victory; 10. From Torres Strait to Canberra; 11. We Get Reinforcements; 12. The Fight That Should Not Have Been Needed

13. Four Years of Looting 14. Finale Without an Ending; Postscript; References, Sources and Bibliography; Index; Acknowledgements

Sommario/riassunto

The Great Barrier Reef lies off the coast of Queensland: 2000 kilometres of spectacular coral reefs, sand cays and islands, Australia's most precious marine possession. Teeming with life, it covers 350,000 square kilometres. In the late 1960's the Reef was threatened with limestone mining and oil drilling. A small group of dedicated conservationists in Queensland - John Büsst, Judith Wright, Len Webb and others - battled to save the Ellison Reef from coral-limestone mining and the Swain Reefs from oil exploration. The group later swelled to encompass scientists, trade unionists and politicists...