People, Sheep and Nature Conservation

This book focuses on the interactions between people, sheep and nature in the run country of Tasmania. It addresses the relationship between production and conservation in natural landscapes grazed by sheep and examines potentially effective pathways to maintain conservation values in a production context that meet the economic needs of wool-growing communities. It presents an understanding of the ways that wool-growing evolved on the runs, the ways in which graziers utilize and value their runs within their enterprises, the ways in which sheep, under different management regimes, affect natural values, and the ways in which the cultural, social and political values of wool growers and conservationists can be reconciled. The book covers environmental geography, disturbance ecology, environmental history, cultural ecology, political ecology, social geography, rural sociology and economic geography.