The nature state : rethinking the history of conservation / edited by Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, Matthew Kelly, Claudia Leal, Emily Wakild.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hardenberg, Wilko Graf von, editor.

Series:

Routledge environmental humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature conservation--History--20th century.

Nature conservation.

National parks and reserves--History.

National parks and reserves.

Nature conservation--Case studies.

Nature conservation--Government policy--Case studies.

Nature conservation--Government policy.

History.

Genre:

Case studies.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 227 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Contents:

The export of the American national park idea in an age of empire : the Philippines, 1898-1940 / Ian Tyrrell

Protecting patagonia : science, conservation and the pre-history of the nature state on a South American frontier, 1903-1934 / Emily Wakild

Another way to preserve : hunting bans, biosecurity, and the brown bear in Italy, 1930-1960 / Wilko Graf von Hardenberg

Conservation politics in the Madras presidency : maintaining the Lord Wenlock Downs of the Nilgiris Grasslands, South India, as a national park, 1930-1950 / Siddhartha Krishnan

Negotiating the nature state beyond the parks : conservation in 20th century north-central Namibia / Emmanuel Kreike

Conventional thinking and the fragile birth of the nature state in post-war Britain / Matthew Kelly

Behind the scenes and out in the open : making Colombian national parks in the 1960s and 70s / Claudia Leal

Ordering the borderland : settlement and removal in the Iguaçu National Park, Brazil, 1940s-1970s / Frederico Freitas

Discovering China's tropical rainforests : shifting approaches to people and nature in the late twentieth century / Michael Hathaway

Nature, state, and conservation in the Danube delta : turning fishermen into outlaws / Stefan Dorondel and Veronica Mitroi.

Notes:

"Earthscan from Routledge"--Front cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-220).

ISBN:

9781138719040

1138719048

OCLC:

978429565

Publisher Number:

40027346555