This new edition of Environmental Change in Australia Since 1788 expands and updates the successful first edition. In addition to revisions throughout, this edition includes a new chapter, special case studies to illustrate broader principles, and a list of useful websites.

Ann Young has written a balanced and extremely readable review of the widespread and often dramatic impacts on the Australian environment that have occurred since the coming of Europeans. The book offers a sound technical understanding of the physical processes relevant to environmental changes and presents controversial issues in a non-partisan and objective way.

Beginning with a brief history of changing attitudes to the natural environment in Australia, it moves on to look at the critical issue of how to measure and assess environmental change. Questions about how to assess and define resources run as a theme throughout the book. Covering the whole of Australia, including the Antarctic territory, Environmental Change in Australia Since 1788 is well illustrated, with more than 50 diagrams and over 30 photographs.

Ann Young, formerly at University of Wollongong

"The text excels, dealing confidently with processes and impacts at a range of scales, and is amply illustrated with examples, figures and photographs, and some more detailed case study boxes. It covers important topics that sometimes do not get much analysis, such as mining impacts, marine as well as coastal degradation and 'high-voltage power and health". Political Geography, May 2003.