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Gender: Female
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1 Hearts on the Wire Andrea Gaynor , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Living with the Anthropocene 2020;
1 Doing Environmental History in Urgent Times Katie Holmes , Andrea Gaynor , Ruth A. Morgan , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: History Australia , vol. 17 no. 2 2020; (p. 230-251)

'The human/nature relationship is at the heart of one of the most urgent crises of our time: climate change. What does this mean for environmental historians, trained as we are to examine the culture/nature relationship, its changing temporal expressions, to challenge the binary which underpins the discipline of history itself? This article is framed as a conversation between three environmental historians as we respond to key questions about environmental history and the climate crisis. Together we ponder the skills we bring to understanding it, the stories we have found to move us forward and our thoughts about the interface between history, science and activism.' (Publication abstract)

1 4 y separately published work icon Mallee Country : Land, People, History Richard Broome , Charles Fahey , Andrea Gaynor , Katie Holmes , Melbourne : Monash University Publishing , 2019 17277674 2019 single work prose

'Mallee Country tells the powerful history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present. Carefully shaped and managed by Aboriginal people for over 50,000 years, mallee country was dramatically transformed by settlers, first with sheep and rabbits, then by flattening and burning the mallee to make way for wheat. Government backed settlement schemes devastated lives and country, but some farmers learnt how to survive the droughts, dust storms, mice, locusts and salinity – as well as the vagaries of international markets – to become some of Australia’s most resilient agriculturalists. In mallee country, innovation and tenacity have been neighbours to hardship and failure.

'Mallee Country is a story of how land and people shape each other. It is the story of how a landscape once derided by settlers as a ‘howling wilderness’ covered in ‘dismal scrub’ became home to citizens who delighted in mallee fauna and flora, and fought to conserve it for future generations. And it is the story of the dreams, sweat and sorrows of people who face an uncertain future of depopulation and climate change with creativity and hope.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 3 y separately published work icon George Seddon : Selected Writings George Seddon , Andrea Gaynor (editor), Melbourne : La Trobe University Press , 2019 16822110 2019 selected work prose

'George Seddon, one of Australia’s most revered environmental scholars, was renowned for championing ‘a sense of place’. He was a connoisseur of landscapes – from the rugged Snowy River Mountains to the humble domestic backyard – who explored the contested relationship between metropolitan suburbs, agricultural hinterlands and wilderness areas, and the dynamics of everything from resource extraction to tending our own gardens. He sought to radically rethink our relationship with nature.

'Seddon’s work anticipated the new fields of urban planning, landscape architecture, environmental conservation, but he was also an irrepressible polymath. A professor in four distinct disciplines – English, geology, the history and philosophy of science, and environmental sciences – he also carved out a career in community, regional and government consultation, wrote practical guides to gardening, heritage walks and house restoration, and the first Australian suburban history.

'Collected here are highlights of Seddon’s groundbreaking writing, selected and edited by Andrea Gaynor, a leading scholar of environmental history, and with a lively introduction from renowned historian Tom Griffiths.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Tearing down and Building up Andrea Gaynor , Tom Griffiths , 2017 extract essay (A Historian for All Seasons : Essays for Geoffrey Bolton)
— Appears in: Inside Story , July 2017;

'How Geoffrey Bolton’s environmental history made a difference'

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