The politics of scale : a history of rangeland science /

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Rangelands are vast, making up one quarter of the United States and 40% of the Earth's ice-free land. And while contemporary science has revealed a great deal about the environmental impacts associated with intensive livestock production - from greenhouse gas emissions to land and water degrada...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sayre, Nathan Freeman (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Temas:
Rangelands > United States > History.
Range ecology > United States.
Range ecology > Economic aspects > United States.
Range policy > United States > History.
Pâturages > États-Unis > Histoire.
Écologie des pâturages > États-Unis.
Écologie des pâturages > Aspect économique > États-Unis.
Pâturages > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis > Histoire.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Animal Husbandry.
Range ecology.
Range policy.
Rangelands.
United States.
Forest Service.
Frederic Clements.
capital.
carrying capacity.
grazing.
pastoralism.
ranching.
scale.
stocking rates.
variability.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Rangelands, science, and the politics of scale
  • Producing the range : extermination and fences
  • Fire and climax : bureaucratic divisions of scientific labor
  • Squinting at blind spots : Southwestern rangelands and the consolidation of successional theory
  • Fixing stocking rates : monitoring and the politics of measurement
  • To manage or manipulate : natural versus artificial improvement of depleted rangelands
  • The Western range goes global : neo-malthusianism and pastoral development
  • Till the cows come home : overseas failures and critiques of range science
  • Conclusion: Capital, climate, and community-based conservation.

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