Nature's diplomats science, internationalism, and preservation, 1920-1960

Nature's Diplomats explores the development of science-based and internationally conceived nature protection in its foundational years before the 1960s, the decade when it launched from obscurity onto the global stage. Raf De Bont studies a movement while it was still in the making and its grou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Bont, Raf de, 1977- autor (autor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press [2021]
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection.
Intersections : histories of environment, science, and technology in the anthropocene.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b46494595*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Great Pioneers": Traditions of Nature Preservation, circa 1900
  • Van Tienhoven's Address Book: Expert Gentlemen and Their Networks
  • Birds of a Feather?: International Law and Avian Mobility
  • Breeding Wisents: Between the Zoo and the Wilderness
  • The National Park as a Laboratory: Internationalism in the Heart of Africa
  • New Institutions, Old Networks
  • Man against Nature: Global Ecology and Its Ambiguities.