Margaret Cook
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3653379 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Margaret Cook |
| NOMBRES | Margaret |
| APELLIDO | Cook |
| FIRMA | COOK M |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3354-0658 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 22 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1952 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Water, Grasses and Food Sovereignty
This article examines the ecological and social impacts of altered river flow regimes and industrial agriculture on the Kamilaroi people and their traditional Country in Moree and Mungindi, New South Wales. Drawing on oral histories with Kamilaroi women and historical and scientific data, we analyse the decline of native grasses—ganalay, or curly Mitchell grass (Astrebla lappacea), and guli, or native millet (Panicum decompositium)—and the conseq…
Locking in hydro-engineered pathways
Located downstream from substantial irrigation extraction at the “end” of the Murray–Darling River system, South Australia (SA) struggles to maintain flows and the health of the rivers within its borders. Analysis of early twentieth century engineering reports reveals that this problem is not new, beginning in the 1880s with the growth of irrigation in Australia and the riparian demands of the eastern, upstream states. I use the theory of path de…
Eradicating Waste in the Making of the Lower River Murray, Australia, 1880–1940
The concept of waste pervades contemporary water policy and the polarised debates about river management in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin. However, the preoccupation with waste, and its associated notions of efficiency and productivity, is not merely a reaction to the relatively recent environmental critique prompted by excessive extraction from rivers and streams. We argue that the fixation with eradicating waste is embedded in the Australian…
Eco-anxiety and environmental history
Environmental historians, like others who study and write about the environment, have long worked with the emotional and psychological impacts of environmental change, including grief, anxiety, rage and despair.But the increasing prevalence of ecological anxiety in recent years, prompted by new indicators of planetary distress, suggests the need for new histories which address humans as subject together with other species to these disruptions in …
Cities in a Sunburnt Country
As Australian cities face uncertain water futures, what insights can the history of Aboriginal and settler relationships with water yield? Residents have come to expect reliable, safe, and cheap water, but natural limits and the costs of maintaining and expanding water networks are at odds with forms and cultures of urban water use. Cities in a Sunburnt Country is the first comparative study of the provision, use, and social impact of water and w…
Human observations of late Quaternary coastal change
Australia's Entanglement in Global Cotton
Cotton in Australia has always been entwined with America and England. From the initial stimulus of the American War of Independence to the boost created by the boll weevil outbreak in the 1920s, the fortunes of Australian cotton producers have been shaped by American history as much as their own nation's political and economic imperatives. Scientists and farmers relied on American experience, importing seed, knowledge, personnel, and technology.…
Island tales
In many long-enduring coastal cultures, there are stories – sometimes mythologized – about times when pieces of land became separated from mainlands by submergence, a process that created islands where none existed before. Using examples from northwest Europe and Australia, this paper argues that many such stories recall times, often millennia ago, when sea level in the aftermath of the Last Glaciation (last ice age) was rising and transforming c…
Emotional challenges to masculinity in the 1930s Callide Valley closer settlement, Australia
When the Callide Valley closer settlement scheme was opened in central Queensland in 1927 its design was based on a gendered rural ideal. A farming man was to be hard-working, stoic and tough, able to withstand the unpredictable climate and environmental conditions to tame the land, build the new nation and provide for his family; acts by which he could construct and demonstrate his settler masculinity, while cultivating the land. Through an anal…
Challenging gender stereotypes in Queensland’s Callide Valley
This article explores the intersection of gender, race, environment and economics in a specific spatial and temporal case study – the Callide Valley, central Queensland, in the 1920s and 1930s. Government propaganda focused on the ideal male settler and his agricultural labour for the settlement’s success. Women were assigned a supportive role, although family survival and the agricultural industry depended on their work beyond the home. Yet, rat…
Water Forever
Brisbane and Sydney's prewar dams and reservoirs were not sufficient to provide reticulated water to the hundreds of thousands of new households that settled in rapidly growing suburbs from the early 1950s. Following American precedent, large concrete gravity dams became easier to build. Hydrologists predicted the likely volume that catchments and valleys could both collect and hold if dammed. This article examines the decision-making trajectory …
Gender, environment and history
We are far from the first, and expect we will not be the last, to wonder at the paucity of research on women, gender and sexuality in (Anglophone) environmental history. To borrow from Virginia Scharff, who was writing in 1999, environmental history still has a 'sex secret'. For all the insights of feminist scholarship, science studies, queer studies, women's history, gender history and histories of sexuality that have accumulated since then, man…
Disasters in Australia and New Zealand
A Water Story
Australia is facing increasing challenges from issues relating to water – its scarcity and abundance, management and politics, uses and abuses and its future in a world dealing with climate change. But how did we get here? A Water Story offers an overview of the history of water usage, legislation and politics in Australia with valuable insights. Geoff Beeson's book reveals how dams, artesian water, irrigation and urban water schemes have allowed…
Perceptions of ‘normal’ climate in Queensland, Australia (1924–34)
The concept of ‘normal’ climatic conditions reflects the complexities of human understandings of the environment. Scholarship on settler societies has explored how culture, science and state imperatives combine to construct a notion of ‘normal’ climate. This study of the Callide Valley settlement (1924–34) in northern Australia, draws on government propaganda, farmers’ submissions to a 1934 government inquiry and meteorological data to reveal the…
River Dreams
River Dreams: the People and Landscape of the Cooks River. By Ian Tyrrell (Sydney: NewSouth Books, 2018), pp.xiv + 290. 16 pages of unnumbered plates and maps. AU$39.99 (pb).\n\nOften overlooked, the Cooks River in south-eastern Sydney is brought into prominence in Ian Tyrrell’s River Dreams. A focus on a specific region allows Tyrrell to explore the complexities of modern rivers — the competing interests of humans and nature, engineered alterati…
It Will Never Happen Again”
Although scholarship shows how collective memory aids community resilience to hazards, sociopolitical forces erode this transformative potential. A study of Brisbane River floods highlights the entanglement of memory with a myth of flood immunity, created by community faith in dams to prevent flooding, infrequent floods, drought and hydrological misunderstandings, and upheld by floodplain development perceived as an economic booster. When floodin…
Terania Creek and the Forging of Modern Environmental Activism
Within the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales lies a rare remnant of rainforest at Terania Creek. Its survival is evidence of a watershed in Australian environmental history – 1979, the year that direct community action saved a forest. The grassroots campaign against the forestry industry and the New South Wales government, that ran over five years, is the subject of Vanessa Bible's book. Bible maintains that although a ‘momentous, unprece…
A River with a City Problem, not a City with a River Problem
This article explores the relationship between the Brisbane River and its river-plain dwelling citizens between 1824 and 1900 through four distinctive narratives. The first is praise for the river for its economic and utilitarian potential until severe flooding in 1893 prompts a second response of incredulity, followed by a third viewpoint demanding engineering solutions to tame nature to prevent future floods. A fourth subordinate voice appeared…
John Baillie Henderson
influenced the development of hydrology in south-east Queensland by successfully combining state imperatives with an understanding of the local environment. Science became entwined with nation-building where the applied nature of hydrological engineering fostered development and addressed local concerns in a region characterised by drought and flood. Henderson, as part of a global scientific community, appreciated the importance of local climatic…
Recovering Inequality
Catastrophes do not occur in historical vacuums’, but are shaped through social, political and economic forces, Steve Kroll-Smith reminds us in his new work Recovering Inequality: Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster (p. 120). This book compares the two most catastrophic urban disasters in American history, the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 with Hurricane Katrina in 2005 with a focus on the aft…
Multilayer geospatial analysis of water availability for shale resources development in Mexico
Mexico’s government enacted an energy reform in 2013 that aims to foster competitiveness and private investment throughout the energy sector value chain. As part of this reform, it is expected that extraction of oil and gas via hydraulic fracturing will increase in five shale basins (e.g. Burgos, Sabinas, Tampico, Tuxpan, and Veracruz). Because hydraulic fracturing is a water-intensive activity, it is relevant to assess the potential water availa…
Vacating the Floodplain
This article exposes the dominant socio-economic and political values that shaped flood management between 1974 and 2011 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. By the 1970s, international hazard scholarship advocated regulating land use as an effective flood mitigation tool. In 1974, floods devastated Southeast Queensland and highlighted the hazards of building on floodplains. Drawing on scholarship that frames floods as a cultural, rather than natu…
Damming the ‘Flood Evil’ on the Brisbane River
When early in 1893 two severe floods devastated Brisbane, Australia, its citizens demanded flood prevention. This article explores the responses to these floods as engineers sought measures to control the river with technology. I argue that local factors of drought, economics and politics delayed a decision for 40 years. It was not until the 1930s Depression, when the State sought unemployment relief projects and the expanding urban settlement de…
Mapping water availability, projected use and cost in the western United States
New demands for water can be satisfied through a variety of source options. In some basins surface and/or groundwater may be available through permitting with the state water management agency (termed unappropriated water), alternatively water might be purchased and transferred out of its current use to another (termed appropriated water), or non-traditional water sources can be captured and treated (e.g., wastewater). The relative availability a…
A River with a City Problem, not a City with a River Problem
This article explores the relationship between the Brisbane River and its river-plain dwelling citizens between 1824 and 1900 through four distinctive narratives. The first is praise for the river for its economic and utilitarian potential until severe flooding in 1893 prompts a second response of incredulity, followed by a third viewpoint demanding engineering solutions to tame nature to prevent future floods. A fourth subordinate voice appeared…
Recovering Inequality
Catastrophes do not occur in historical vacuums’, but are shaped through social, political and economic forces, Steve Kroll-Smith reminds us in his new work Recovering Inequality: Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster (p. 120). This book compares the two most catastrophic urban disasters in American history, the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 with Hurricane Katrina in 2005 with a focus on the aft…
The Creation of Mythology
Island tales
In many long-enduring coastal cultures, there are stories – sometimes mythologized – about times when pieces of land became separated from mainlands by submergence, a process that created islands where none existed before. Using examples from northwest Europe and Australia, this paper argues that many such stories recall times, often millennia ago, when sea level in the aftermath of the Last Glaciation (last ice age) was rising and transforming c…
Water Forever
Brisbane and Sydney's prewar dams and reservoirs were not sufficient to provide reticulated water to the hundreds of thousands of new households that settled in rapidly growing suburbs from the early 1950s. Following American precedent, large concrete gravity dams became easier to build. Hydrologists predicted the likely volume that catchments and valleys could both collect and hold if dammed. This article examines the decision-making trajectory …
John Baillie Henderson
influenced the development of hydrology in south-east Queensland by successfully combining state imperatives with an understanding of the local environment. Science became entwined with nation-building where the applied nature of hydrological engineering fostered development and addressed local concerns in a region characterised by drought and flood. Henderson, as part of a global scientific community, appreciated the importance of local climatic…
Damming the ‘Flood Evil’ on the Brisbane River
When early in 1893 two severe floods devastated Brisbane, Australia, its citizens demanded flood prevention. This article explores the responses to these floods as engineers sought measures to control the river with technology. I argue that local factors of drought, economics and politics delayed a decision for 40 years. It was not until the 1930s Depression, when the State sought unemployment relief projects and the expanding urban settlement de…
Challenging gender stereotypes in Queensland’s Callide Valley
This article explores the intersection of gender, race, environment and economics in a specific spatial and temporal case study – the Callide Valley, central Queensland, in the 1920s and 1930s. Government propaganda focused on the ideal male settler and his agricultural labour for the settlement’s success. Women were assigned a supportive role, although family survival and the agricultural industry depended on their work beyond the home. Yet, rat…
Gender, environment and history
We are far from the first, and expect we will not be the last, to wonder at the paucity of research on women, gender and sexuality in (Anglophone) environmental history. To borrow from Virginia Scharff, who was writing in 1999, environmental history still has a 'sex secret'. For all the insights of feminist scholarship, science studies, queer studies, women's history, gender history and histories of sexuality that have accumulated since then, man…
It Will Never Happen Again”
Although scholarship shows how collective memory aids community resilience to hazards, sociopolitical forces erode this transformative potential. A study of Brisbane River floods highlights the entanglement of memory with a myth of flood immunity, created by community faith in dams to prevent flooding, infrequent floods, drought and hydrological misunderstandings, and upheld by floodplain development perceived as an economic booster. When floodin…
Terania Creek and the Forging of Modern Environmental Activism
Within the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales lies a rare remnant of rainforest at Terania Creek. Its survival is evidence of a watershed in Australian environmental history – 1979, the year that direct community action saved a forest. The grassroots campaign against the forestry industry and the New South Wales government, that ran over five years, is the subject of Vanessa Bible's book. Bible maintains that although a ‘momentous, unprece…
Specialist services for older people
This paper reports findings of a study in 2004 of the development of specialist services for older people in the National Health Service (NHS) in England, as recommended in the Department of Health's National Service Framework for Older People (NSF-OP). The study was funded by the Department of Health as part of a programme of research to explore the Framework's implementation. Information was collected through a questionnaire survey about the na…
The origins of intelligence in children.
The construction of reality in the child.
Zanzibar-Some Reflections
The Creation of Mythology
The Creation of Mythology
The Creation of Mythology
Eros and Magic in the Renaissance
Eros and Magic in the Renaissance
La Beauté de l’affaire de France Daigle
La Beauté de l’affaire de France Daigle. Un article de la revue Francophonies d'Amérique (Une opération de maillage pour renforcer les liens entre les isolats de langue française) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Project to identify developing world's creatures and carinet
Biosystematics is fundamental to environmental and biodiversity programmes and the increasing number of these programmes, especially in the developing world, has created an increased demand for biosystematic services. At the same time, the provision of free biosystematic services hy benevolent institutions in the developed world has been declining. The only realistic long‐term solution to the problem is a network approach to build biosystematic c…
Assessing the Registered Nursing Care Contribution for older people in care homes
The present paper reports on a study designed to investigate the validity and reliability of the Registered Nursing Care Contribution (RNCC) tool for assessing the level of nursing care required by care home residents. Care plan data from 186 residents in participating care homes were assessed by multiple assessors using the RNCC tool (i.e. care home registered nurses, a nurse researcher, an external care home expert and a nurses consultant). The…
Specialist services for older people
This paper reports findings of a study in 2004 of the development of specialist services for older people in the National Health Service (NHS) in England, as recommended in the Department of Health's National Service Framework for Older People (NSF-OP). The study was funded by the Department of Health as part of a programme of research to explore the Framework's implementation. Information was collected through a questionnaire survey about the na…
Jules Supervielle
La poétique de la transparence de Jules Supervielle ramène la poésie à l'ordinaire et au quotidien. À l'intérieur de ce monde, l'irréel est apprivoisé, ce qui permet au poète de rejoindre de nouveau l'ordinaire dans sa profondeur. Une nouvelle réalité et une symbiose avec l'univers sont ainsi recherchées à travers cette face cachée du monde
The ‘Earlybird’ gets the breastmilk
Australia has high initiation rates of breastfeeding, but the challenges of establishing and maintaining breastfeeding in the first few months of infant life result in many women changing to artificial formula feeding. This paper reports on the impact of a new strategy to improve breastfeeding duration rates in the first 8 weeks post-partum. The Earlybird Program (EBP) combines the professional expertise of child and family health (C&FH) nurses w…
Mapping water availability, projected use and cost in the western United States
New demands for water can be satisfied through a variety of source options. In some basins surface and/or groundwater may be available through permitting with the state water management agency (termed unappropriated water), alternatively water might be purchased and transferred out of its current use to another (termed appropriated water), or non-traditional water sources can be captured and treated (e.g., wastewater). The relative availability a…
Damming the ‘Flood Evil’ on the Brisbane River
When early in 1893 two severe floods devastated Brisbane, Australia, its citizens demanded flood prevention. This article explores the responses to these floods as engineers sought measures to control the river with technology. I argue that local factors of drought, economics and politics delayed a decision for 40 years. It was not until the 1930s Depression, when the State sought unemployment relief projects and the expanding urban settlement de…
Multilayer geospatial analysis of water availability for shale resources development in Mexico
Mexico’s government enacted an energy reform in 2013 that aims to foster competitiveness and private investment throughout the energy sector value chain. As part of this reform, it is expected that extraction of oil and gas via hydraulic fracturing will increase in five shale basins (e.g. Burgos, Sabinas, Tampico, Tuxpan, and Veracruz). Because hydraulic fracturing is a water-intensive activity, it is relevant to assess the potential water availa…
Vacating the Floodplain
This article exposes the dominant socio-economic and political values that shaped flood management between 1974 and 2011 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. By the 1970s, international hazard scholarship advocated regulating land use as an effective flood mitigation tool. In 1974, floods devastated Southeast Queensland and highlighted the hazards of building on floodplains. Drawing on scholarship that frames floods as a cultural, rather than natu…
River Dreams
River Dreams: the People and Landscape of the Cooks River. By Ian Tyrrell (Sydney: NewSouth Books, 2018), pp.xiv + 290. 16 pages of unnumbered plates and maps. AU$39.99 (pb).\n\nOften overlooked, the Cooks River in south-eastern Sydney is brought into prominence in Ian Tyrrell’s River Dreams. A focus on a specific region allows Tyrrell to explore the complexities of modern rivers — the competing interests of humans and nature, engineered alterati…
It Will Never Happen Again”
Although scholarship shows how collective memory aids community resilience to hazards, sociopolitical forces erode this transformative potential. A study of Brisbane River floods highlights the entanglement of memory with a myth of flood immunity, created by community faith in dams to prevent flooding, infrequent floods, drought and hydrological misunderstandings, and upheld by floodplain development perceived as an economic booster. When floodin…
Terania Creek and the Forging of Modern Environmental Activism
Within the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales lies a rare remnant of rainforest at Terania Creek. Its survival is evidence of a watershed in Australian environmental history – 1979, the year that direct community action saved a forest. The grassroots campaign against the forestry industry and the New South Wales government, that ran over five years, is the subject of Vanessa Bible's book. Bible maintains that although a ‘momentous, unprece…
A River with a City Problem, not a City with a River Problem
This article explores the relationship between the Brisbane River and its river-plain dwelling citizens between 1824 and 1900 through four distinctive narratives. The first is praise for the river for its economic and utilitarian potential until severe flooding in 1893 prompts a second response of incredulity, followed by a third viewpoint demanding engineering solutions to tame nature to prevent future floods. A fourth subordinate voice appeared…
John Baillie Henderson
influenced the development of hydrology in south-east Queensland by successfully combining state imperatives with an understanding of the local environment. Science became entwined with nation-building where the applied nature of hydrological engineering fostered development and addressed local concerns in a region characterised by drought and flood. Henderson, as part of a global scientific community, appreciated the importance of local climatic…
Recovering Inequality
Catastrophes do not occur in historical vacuums’, but are shaped through social, political and economic forces, Steve Kroll-Smith reminds us in his new work Recovering Inequality: Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster (p. 120). This book compares the two most catastrophic urban disasters in American history, the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 with Hurricane Katrina in 2005 with a focus on the aft…
Disasters in Australia and New Zealand
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