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Demographic Fluidity and Moral Ecology: Queenstown (Tasmania) and a Lesson in Precarious Process
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posted on 2023-05-24, 07:15 authored by Peter HayIt is argued that communities embodying the conditions identified by Karl Jacoby as constituting a moral ecology are threatened by processes of gentrification, and these are now gathering pace throughout the western world. These communities may evince an environmental sensibility, but such a sensibility will not be the moral ecology of which Jacoby writes, the latter requiring the development, through time, of mores of sustainability forged through a long and intimate engagement by a community with its ambient environment. The paper examines changing environmental attitudes within the Tasmanian mining town of Queenstown as a lens through which his argument can be demonstrated.
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Publication title
Moral Ecologies:Histories of Conservation, Dispossession and Resistance. Palgrave Studies in World Environmental HistoryEditors
C Griffin., R Jones, and I RobertsonPagination
189-215ISBN
978-3-030-06111-1Department/School
School of Geography, Planning and Spatial SciencesPublisher
Palgrave MacmillanPlace of publication
Cham, SwitzerlandExtent
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