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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bont, Raf de, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
International Union for the Protection of Nature.
Environmentalism.
Big game hunting.
Birds > Conservation.
Environmental protection > International cooperation.
National parks and reserves > Protection.
SCIENCE > General.
Chasse au gros gibier > Afrique > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Bison d'Europe > Conservation.
Environnement > Protection > Cooperation internationale > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Oiseaux > Protection.
Environnementalisme > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Big game hunting > Africa > History > 20th century.
European bison > Conservation.
Environmental protection > International cooperation > History > 20th century.
Environmentalism > History > 20th century.
Africa.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "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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