Book edited by Tor Hundloe, Bridgette McDougall and Craig Page The Gold Coast is Australia’s premier tourism destination, a city cut out of coastal vegetation, including paperbark swamps, mangroves and rainforests of worldwide significance. The Gold Coast Transformed is a collection of integrated chapters identifying and assessing the environmental impacts of the building of Australia’s sixth largest city. It traces the cumulative impacts from the day the first timber-getter entered what is now World Heritage-listed rainforest through to the present. The city’s natural and engineered environments are both fascinating and vulnerable. The construction of massive high-rise apartment blocks, on what …

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