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The Environmental Impacts of the Victorian Gold Rushes: Miners' Accounts during the First Five Years

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Research into the environmental impacts of gold rushes has tended to be limited, with only a small number of broad descriptive studies. This article provides a new approach in three ways. First, it is confined to a specific small time period – the initial five years – rather than trying to cover all aspects of a long period. Second, it analyses the environmental impacts in terms of the activities undertaken by the miners. A focus on activities was chosen in preference to types of impact as a means of centring attention on humans as agents of change. Third, it utilises a wide range of accounts by miners to examine the changes they observed.

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  • Warwick Frost, 2013. "The Environmental Impacts of the Victorian Gold Rushes: Miners' Accounts during the First Five Years," Australian Economic History Review, Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 53(1), pages 72-90, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ozechr:v:53:y:2013:i:1:p:72-90
    DOI: 10.1111/aehr.2013.53.issue-1
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    1. Keir Reeves & Lionel Frost & Charles Fahey, 2010. "Integrating The Historiography Of The Nineteenth‐Century Gold Rushes," Australian Economic History Review, Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 50(2), pages 111-128, July.
    2. Tony Dingle, 2010. "Miners' Cottages," Australian Economic History Review, Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 50(2), pages 162-177, July.
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