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49 produkter
Civilizing Nature
National Parks in Global Historical Perspective
Av Bernhard Gissibl, Sabine Höhler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
1979 kr
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National parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon. The development of these ecological and political systems cannot be understood as a …
Powerless Science?
Science and Politics in a Toxic World
Av Soraya Boudia, Nathalie Jas
Inbunden, 2014
1861 kr
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In spite of decades of research on toxicants, along with the growing role of scientific expertise in public policy and the unprecedented rise in the number of national and international institutions dealing with environmental health issues, problems surrounding contaminants and their effects on …
Managing the Unknown
Essays on Environmental Ignorance
Inbunden, 2014
1916 kr
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Information is crucial when it comes to the management of resources. But what if knowledge is incomplete, or biased, or otherwise deficient? How did people define patterns of proper use in the absence of cognitive certainty? Discussing this challenge for a diverse set of resources from fish to …
Creating Wilderness
A Transnational History of the Swiss National Park
Inbunden, 2014
1979 kr
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The history of the Swiss National Park, from its creation in the years before the Great War to the present, is told for the first time in this book. Unlike Yellowstone Park, which embodied close cooperation between state-supported conservation and public recreation, the Swiss park put in place an …
Rivers, Memory, And Nation-building
A History of the Volga and Mississippi Rivers
Inbunden, 2014
1979 kr
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Rivers figure prominently in a nation’s historical memory, and the Volga and Mississippi have special importance in Russian and American cultures. Beginning in the pre-modern world, both rivers served as critical trade routes connecting cultures in an extensive exchange network, while also …
Civilizing Nature
National Parks in Global Historical Perspective
Av Bernhard Gissibl, Sabine Höhler m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
526 kr
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National parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon. The development of these ecological and political systems cannot be understood as a …
Fault Lines
Earthquakes and Urbanism in Modern Italy
Inbunden, 2015
1979 kr
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Earth's fractured geology is visible in its fault lines. It is along these lines that earthquakes occur, sometimes with disastrous effects. These disturbances can significantly influence urban development, as seen in the aftermath of two earthquakes in Italy, Messina in 1908 and in the Belice …
Cycling and Recycling
Histories of Sustainable Practices
Av Ruth Oldenziel, Helmuth Trischler
Inbunden, 2015
1921 kr
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Technology has long been an essential consideration in public discussions of the environment, with the focus overwhelmingly on creating new tools and techniques. In more recent years, however, activists, researchers, and policymakers have increasingly turned to mobilizing older technologies in …
Disrupted Landscapes
State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania
Inbunden, 2016
1880 kr
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The fall of the Soviet Union was a transformative event for the national political economies of Eastern Europe, leading not only to new regimes of ownership and development but to dramatic changes in the natural world itself. This painstakingly researched volume focuses on the emblematic case of …
Nature of German Imperialism
Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa
Inbunden, 2016
2139 kr
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Today, the East African state of Tanzania is renowned for wildlife preserves such as the Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and the Selous Game Reserve. Yet few know that most of these initiatives emerged from decades of German colonial rule. This book gives the first full …
Powerless Science?
Science and Politics in a Toxic World
Av Soraya Boudia, Nathalie Jas
Häftad, 2016
454 kr
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In spite of decades of research on toxicants, along with the growing role of scientific expertise in public policy and the unprecedented rise in the number of national and international institutions dealing with environmental health issues, problems surrounding contaminants and their effects on …
Managing the Unknown
Essays on Environmental Ignorance
Häftad, 2016
543 kr
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Information is crucial when it comes to the management of resources. But what if knowledge is incomplete, or biased, or otherwise deficient? How did people define patterns of proper use in the absence of cognitive certainty? Discussing this challenge for a diverse set of resources from fish to …
In the Name of the Great Work
Stalin's Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe
Inbunden, 2016
1979 kr
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Beginning in 1948, the Soviet Union launched a series of wildly ambitious projects to implement Joseph Stalin’s vision of a total “transformation of nature.” Intended to increase agricultural yields dramatically, this utopian impulse quickly spread to the newly communist states of Eastern Europe, …
International Organizations and Environmental Protection
Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century
Av Wolfram Kaiser, Jan-Henrik Meyer
Inbunden, 2016
1979 kr
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Pollution, resource depletion, habitat management, and climate change are all issues that necessarily transcend national boundaries. Accordingly, they and other environmental concerns have been a particular focus for international organizations from before the First World War to the present day. …
Living Past
Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America
Av John Soluri, Claudia Leal m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1979 kr
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Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new …
Managing Northern Europe's Forests
Histories from the Age of Improvement to the Age of Ecology
Av K. Jan Oosthoek, Richard Hölzl
Inbunden, 2018
2186 kr
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Northern Europe was, by many accounts, the birthplace of much of modern forestry practice, and for hundreds of years the region's woodlands have played an outsize role in international relations, economic growth, and the development of national identity. Across eleven chapters, the contributors to …
Changes in the Air
Hurricanes in New Orleans from 1718 to the Present
Inbunden, 2018
1979 kr
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Hurricanes have been a constant in the history of New Orleans. Since before its settlement as a French colony in the eighteenth century, the land entwined between Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River has been lashed by powerful Gulf storms. Time and again, these hurricanes have wrought …
Ice and Snow in the Cold War
Histories of Extreme Climatic Environments
Av Julia Herzberg, Christian Kehrt m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1979 kr
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The history of the Cold War has focused overwhelmingly on statecraft and military power, an approach that has naturally placed Moscow and Washington center stage. Meanwhile, regions such as Alaska, the polar landscapes, and the cold areas of the Soviet periphery have received little attention. …
Cycling and Recycling
Histories of Sustainable Practices
Av Ruth Oldenziel, Helmuth Trischler
Häftad, 2019
348 kr
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Technology has long been an essential consideration in public discussions of the environment, with the focus overwhelmingly on creating new tools and techniques. In more recent years, however, activists, researchers, and policymakers have increasingly turned to mobilizing older technologies in …
International Organizations and Environmental Protection
Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century
Av Wolfram Kaiser, Jan-Henrik Meyer
Häftad, 2019
543 kr
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Pollution, resource depletion, habitat management, and climate change are all issues that necessarily transcend national boundaries. Accordingly, they and other environmental concerns have been a particular focus for international organizations from before the First World War to the present day. …
Planning for the Planet
Environmental Expertise and the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1960–1980
Inbunden, 2019
1921 kr
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During the 1960s and 1970s, rapidly growing environmental awareness and concern created unprecedented demand for ecological expertise and novel challenges for ecological advocacy groups such as the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). This book reveals how, …
Hazardous Chemicals
Agents of Risk and Change, 1800-2000
Av Ernst Homburg, Elisabeth Vaupel
Inbunden, 2019
2077 kr
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Although poisonous substances have been a hazard for the whole of human history, it is only with the development and large-scale production of new chemical substances over the last two centuries that toxic, manmade pollutants have become such a varied and widespread danger. Covering a host of both …
Nature of German Imperialism
Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa
Häftad, 2019
618 kr
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Today, the East African state of Tanzania is renowned for wildlife preserves such as the Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and the Selous Game Reserve. Yet few know that most of these initiatives emerged from decades of German colonial rule. This book gives the first full …
In the Name of the Great Work
Stalin's Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe
Häftad, 2019
532 kr
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Beginning in 1948, the Soviet Union launched a series of wildly ambitious projects to implement Joseph Stalin’s vision of a total “transformation of nature.” Intended to increase agricultural yields dramatically, this utopian impulse quickly spread to the newly communist states of Eastern Europe, …
Living Past
Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America
Av John Soluri, Claudia Leal m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
543 kr
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Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new …
Colonial Seeds in African Soil
A Critical History of Forest Conservation in Sierra Leone
Av Paul Munro
Inbunden, 2020
1979 kr
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"Empire forestry"-the broadly shared forest management practice that emerged in the West in the nineteenth century-may have originated in Europe, but it would eventually reshape the landscapes of colonies around the world. Melding the approaches of environmental history and political ecology, …
Conservation’s Roots
Managing for Sustainability in Preindustrial Europe, 1100–1800
Av Abigail P. Dowling, Richard Keyser
Inbunden, 2020
2186 kr
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The ideas and practices that comprise “conservation” are often assumed to have arisen within the last two centuries. However, while conservation today has been undeniably entwined with processes of modernity, its historical roots run much deeper. Considering a variety of preindustrial European …
Meanings of a Disaster
Chernobyl and Its Afterlives in Britain and France
Inbunden, 2020
1979 kr
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The disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was an event of obviously transnational significance-not only in the airborne particulates it deposited across the European continent, but in the political and social repercussions it set off well beyond the Soviet bloc. Focusing on the cases of …
Fault Lines
Earthquakes and Urbanism in Modern Italy
Häftad, 2020
511 kr
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Earth’s fractured geology is visible in its fault lines. It is along these lines that earthquakes occur, sometimes with disastrous effects. These disturbances can significantly influence urban development, as seen in the aftermath of two earthquakes in Messina, Italy, in 1908 and in the Belice …
Risk on the Table
Food Production, Health, and the Environment
Av Angela N. H. Creager, Jean-Paul Gaudillière
Inbunden, 2021
2186 kr
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Over the last century, the industrialization of agriculture and processing technologies have made food abundant and relatively inexpensive for much of the world’s population. Simultaneously, pesticides, nitrates, and other technological innovations intended to improve the food supply’s productivity …
