TY - BOOK ID - 10688346 TI - Environment, Race, and Nationhood in Australia : Revisiting the Empty North PY - 2016 SN - 1349905739 1349915092 PB - New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Islands of the Pacific-History. KW - Environmental policy KW - Northern Territory KW - Population KW - Public opinion. KW - North Australia KW - Central Australia KW - Environmental policy. KW - Area studies. KW - Environmental Policy. KW - Area Studies. KW - Australasian History. KW - Area research KW - Foreign area studies KW - Education KW - Research KW - Geography KW - Environment and state KW - Environmental control KW - Environmental management KW - Environmental protection KW - Environmental quality KW - State and environment KW - Environmental auditing KW - Study and teaching KW - Government policy KW - Islands of the Pacific—History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:10688346 AB - This new study offers a timely and compelling account of why past generations of Australians have seen the north of the country as an empty land, and how those perceptions of Australia’s tropical regions impact current policy and shape the self-image of the nation. It considers the origins of these concerns - from fears of invasion and moral qualms about leaving resources lying idle, from apprehensions about white nationhood coming under international censure and misgivings about the natural attributes of the north - and elucidates Australians’ changing appreciations of the natural environments of the north, their shifting attitudes toward race and their unsettled conceptions of Asia. ER -