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Environmental Science



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This display of books represents the collecting that the Murdoch University Library has undertaken over 30 years in the field of Environmental Science. Items chosen cover:

  • Key publications considered crucial for their role in raising the awareness of the public and the scientific community to the existing problems and potential dangers associated with environmental issues. For example: Our Common Future (1990)
  • Significant authors. E.g. Paul Ehrlich (1977), Thomas Malthus (1992)
  • Major environmental reports. E.g. Australia , State of the Environment 1996 report (1996)
  • Ground breaking conventions and conferences that show the evolution of international cooperation. E.g. United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (1993)
  • Important areas of research and teaching at Murdoch. E.g. environmental impact assessment (1985)
  • Major events/disasters that have contributed to the increasing acceptance of the need to address environmental issues. E.g. Exxon Valdez (2003)

 

1975

Worldwatch paper Vol 1
SOUTH WING LEVEL 1    300 W927 1

1976

National report to Habitat : the United Nations Conference on Human…..
SOUTH WING LEVEL 1 304.20994 A938

1977

Ecoscience : population, resources, environment
SOUTH WING LEVEL 1 304.2 EHR 1970

1978

United Nations conference on desertification : plan of action 29 August….
SOUTH WING LEVEL 4 333.73 U58 1

1979

Gaia, a new look at life on earth
NORTH WING LEVEL 2 574.01 LOV 1979

1980

The global 2000 report to the president : entering the twenty-first century
SOUTH WING LEVEL 1 304.20973 C855 1

1981

Water quality criteria for marine and estuarine waters of Western Austr ..
SOUTH WING LEVEL 4 G 333.709941 W527 1 103

1982

An introduction to marine ecology
NORTH WING LEVEL 2 574.52636 B261

1983

Environmental oceanography : an introduction to the behaviour of…
NORTH WING LEVEL 2 551.36 B415

1984

State of the world : a Worldwatch Institute report on progress toward….
SOUTH WING LEVEL 4    338.9 B878 1 (1984 ed)

1985

Ecology, impact assessment and environmental planning
SOUTH WING LEVEL 4 333.7 W531

1986

The Greenhouse effect, climatic change, and ecosystems
NORTH WING LEVEL 2 551.5 GRE

1987

Effects and control of transboundary air pollution : report prepared
NORTH WING LEVEL 2 628.53 EFF 1987

1988

Biodiversity
SOUTH WING LEVEL 4 333.72 NAT

1989

Strategy for ozone protection
SOUTH WING LEVEL 4 G 363.7392099 AUS 1989

1990

Our common future
SOUTH WING LEVEL 4 363.7 OUR

1991

Chernobyl , insight from the inside
SOUTH WING LEVEL 4 363.1799094 CHE 1991

1992

An essay on the principle of population, or, A view of its past and present
SOUTH WING LEVEL 1 304.6 MAL

1993

Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Developm..
SOUTH WING LEVEL 4 363.7 UNI

1994

International wildlife trade : a CITES sourcebook
SOUTH WING LEVEL 4 341.7625 INT

1995

Global environmental crises : an Australian perspective
SOUTH WING LEVEL 4 363.7 GLO 1995

1996

Australia , state of the environment 1996 : an independent report
SOUTH WING LEVEL 4 G 333.720994 AUS 1996

1997

Our stolen future : are we threatening our fertility, intelligence
NORTH WING LEVEL 2 615.902 COL 1997

1998

Environment Western Australia 1998 : state of the environment
SOUTH WING LEVEL 4 G 333.709941 STA 1998

1999

Protocol : international climate policy for the 21st century
SOUTH WING LEVEL 4 341.762 OBE 1999

2000

Endangered species : threatened convention : the past, present and
SOUTH WING LEVEL 4 341.7625 END 2000

2001

Handbook of the Convention on Biological Diversity
SOUTH WING LEVEL 4 341.762 HAN 2001

2002

Before the deluge : the vanishing world of the Yangtze's Three Gorges
SOUTH WING LEVEL 2 951.512 CHE 2002 

2003

Effects of the Exxon Valdex oil spill on river otters : injury and recovery
NORTH WING LEVEL 2 J 639.9 J86 2 v.153

2004 Living in the environment : principles, connections, and solutions
SOUTH WING LEVEL 4 363.7 MIL 2004
2005

Limits to growth : the 30-year update
SOUTH WING LEVEL 4 330.9 MEA 2004