Running Out? Water in Western Australia
Author(s): Ruth A Morgan
For nearly 200 years the visions and aspirations of the people of Australia’s west have been characterised by an unquenchable thirst. Ruth Morgan uncovers the fear of running out of water — a fear that has long gripped the region’s inhabitants and loomed large on the state’s political agenda. It has shaped how urban and rural Western Australians learned to live with the effects of a variable climate on their water supply, lifestyle, and livelihood.
This is a story of hardship and persistence; of inclusion, exclusion and defiant profligacy in the face of growing scarcity, through a period of great development and social change. An engrossing environmental history that offers a new understanding of the past Running Out? questions this way of life as we approach an uncertain future in a drying climate.
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Ruth Morgan has written a book that wears its scholarship easily and tells its story briskly with grace and skill ... an analysis that has relevance well beyond Australia.
RICHARD WHITE, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Lucid and engaging, this book tells a compelling story with vital implications for the nation’s future ... This is environmental history at its best.
GRACE KARSKENS, UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
Ruth Morgan completed her PhD at The University of Western Australia in 2012 and took up a lecturing position at Monash University in the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies the following year. Her doctoral thesis was awarded the 2013 Margaret Medcalf Prize by the State Records Office of Western Australia for excellence in reference and research, and shortlisted for the Australian Historical Association’s Serle Award for the best postgraduate thesis in Australian History.
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- : UWA Publishing
- : UWAP
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- : February 2015
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- : English
- : PB
- : Ruth A Morgan