Environmental Modification: Casework's Concern or Casework's Neglect?

1973 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Grinnell
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Modification

scholarly journals Lawnscaping Perth: Water Supply, Gardens, and Scarcity, 1890-1925

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Gaynor
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Natural System ◽  
Environmental Modification ◽  
Bodily Experience ◽  
Capital Cities ◽  
Australian State ◽  
State Capital ◽  
Water Restrictions

While Perth’s climate has been getting drier for at least four decades, its citizens maintain an ongoing commitment to year-round green lawns and gardens (or “lawnscapes”), and a resistance to water restrictions that is more pronounced than in other Australian state capital cities. This article demonstrates that these features of contemporary Perth emerged from, and continue to bear the imprint of, an earlier socio-natural system that brought together a town water supply, sprinkler technology, plants, and a multidimensional cultural desire for environmental modification. As important markers of civilization and prosperity, Perth’s emergent lawnscapes assuaged colonial anxieties about the settlement’s status. Conspicuously shaped by collective understandings of imperial urban hierarchies, residents’ lawnscaping projects were also driven by their bodily experience of sand, heat, and dust: they were in part a response to the challenge of keeping homes and families clean and cool in a city of hot summers and ubiquitous sand.

Recent Actions Regarding Treaties to Which the United States is a Party

1994 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 307-308
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Environmental Modification

Convention on the prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques, with annex. Done at Geneva May 18.1977.Entered into force Oct. 5,1978; for the U.S.Jan 17, 1980. TIAS9614; 31 UST 333. [16 I.L.M. 88 (1997)].

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