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

Warwick Frost

Australian Economic History Review, 2013, vol. 53, issue 1, 72-90

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2013
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