Creating wilderness : a transnational history of the Swiss National Park /

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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 ex...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kupper, Patrick
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Alemán
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2014.
Series:Environment in history ; Volume 4.
Subjects:
Nature conservation > Switzerland > History.
Nature > Conservation > Suisse > Histoire.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
Nature conservation.
Schweizerischer Nationalpark (Switzerland) > History.
Parc national suisse (Suisse) > Histoire.
Switzerland.
Switzerland > Schweizerischer Nationalpark.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1
  • Global Parks: National Parks, Globalization, and Western Modernism
  • Chapter 2
  • National Natures: The Swiss National Park and the Conservationist Internationale
  • Chapter 3
  • Local Landscapes: Political Spaces, Institutional Arrangements, and Subjective Attitudes
  • Chapter 4
  • Total Protection: Philosophy and Practice of Freely Developing Nature
  • Chapter 5
  • Ecological Field Laboratory: The Park as a Scientific Experiment
  • Chapter 6
  • Wilderness Limits: Natural Dynamics and Social Equilibrium
  • Conclusion
  • Creating Wilderness
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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