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

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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
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bont, Raf de, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]
Colección:Intersections (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Temas:
International Union for the Protection of Nature.
International Union for the Protection of Nature
1900-1999
Environmentalism > History > 20th century.
Birds > Conservation.
Environmental protection > International cooperation > History > 20th century.
European bison > Conservation.
National parks and reserves > Protection.
Big game hunting > Africa > History > 20th century.
Environnementalisme > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Oiseaux > Protection.
Environnement > Protection > Coopération internationale > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Bison d'Europe > Conservation.
Chasse au gros gibier > Afrique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SCIENCE > General.
National parks and reserves > Protection
Environmental protection > International cooperation
Birds > Conservation
Big game hunting
Environmentalism
Africa
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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.

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