Title: Our islands, our selves :
Authors: Young, David
Date: 2004
Publisher: University of Otago Press,
Physical description: 298 p. : ill., (some col.), col. maps ; 27 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: S
Abstract: "Our Islands, Our Selves is the story of how a conservation ethic emerged in New Zealand. It looks at Maori settlement and how the need to preserve slowly became an element of the use of some resources. It identifies the issues, personalities and organisations of the past 200 years, as New Zealand evolved from a 'quarry economy' to a modern society grappling with erosion and flooding issues, predator proliferation and habitat and species loss."--Jacket.
Contents: Introduction -- patterns of antiquity -- Maori in Aotearoa -- Transforming landscape, transforming identity -- A dawning awareness -- Remnants reserved -- Sleepers awake -- The price of progress -- Citizens of a living landscape.
Subject headings (LCSH): Conservation of natural resources--Government policy--New Zealand.; Conservation of natural resources--New Zealand--History.; Nature conservation--New Zealand--History.