During the 1840s, the biometric approach to soil fertility appraisal was found to be a false one, and was replaced by a developing ecological one, which relied on specific plant indicators of soil fertility.
The history of environmental anxiety in nineteenth- and twentieth-century New Zealand can be traced by focusing on problems caused by deforestation.
The author explores some of the expressions of the changes in human perceptions of, and responses to, a group of plants with which people have had to contend for places, and the deeper cultural significances of the contest itself. New Zealand’s discrete landscape and the settler society is the context in which Clayton further develops his analysis.
This paper analyses the turning-point in attitudes to the most distinctive feature of one nation’s indigenous environment.
This state organization is founded to manage the conservation of New Zealand’s natural heritage.
The act is an important and controversial parliamentary decision regulating access to New Zealand’s natural resources.
Soon after the species arrive, their populations increase to plague proportions.
