Table of Contents

Introduction
The physical setting: landforms and soils
Climate, hydrology, the oceans and vegetation
Environmental issues: constraints and impacts
Third world in the first?
Outposts of Empire
From 'Britain's farm in the South Pacific' to 'farming without subsidies'
Boom and bust in the Australian minerals and energy industries
Population characteristics
Monocultural, bicultural or multicultural?
New societies?
Urbanisation and urban form
Globalisation and the Australasian economies
Changing contexts for services and the primary sector
Regional development and planning
Environmental hazards and environmental management
The wider context and the future.

About the Author

Guy Robinson, School of Geography, Kingston University, UK - Robert Loughran, Department of Geography, University of Newcastle, Australia - Paul Tranter, Department of Geography, University of New South Wales, Australia

Reviews

Very well presented and very well illustrated...this is a book everyone interested in 'down under' should have.
Progress in Human Geography

Robinson, Loughran and Tranter have attempted a most ambitious book by offering a geographical discourse of Australia and New Zealand as an integral theme.
The Geographical Journal

...the authors have done us a fine service by bringing this material together.
British Review of New Zealand Studies