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ENNZ: Environment and Nature in New Zealand

Volume 4, Number 1, April 2009

This issue is a special edition which includes selected papers from Developing Trans-Tasman Perspectives: Historical Geography Workshop, organised by Dr. Matt Henry and Professor Mike Roche, held at Palmerston North, Massey University, on 19 November 2008.

It features Paul Star on the nature of environmental history and its disciplinary distinctiveness; Matt Henry on meteorology and the making of a trans-Tasman airspace in the interwar years; James Beattie on the changing environmental ideas of the New Zealand and Australian colonist, Alfred Sharpe (1836-1908); Professor Mike Roche on L.M. (McIntosh) Ellis, the Canadian-born forester and first Director of Forests in New Zealand's State Forest Service; and Paul Star reviews Kirstie Ross' recent book, Going Bush: New Zealanders and Nature in the Twentieth Century.

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