The Game of Conservation - International Treaties to Protect the World's Migratory Animals

Informationen zum Autor Mark Cioc is a professor of history at the University of California! Santa Crus and the author of The Rhine: An Eco-Biography! 1815-2000. He is a coeditor of How Green Were the Nazis? Nature! Environment! and Nation in the Third Reich. Klappentext Drawing on a wide variety of primary and secondary sources! Mark Cioc shows that a handful of treaties—all designed to protect the world’s most commercially important migratory species—have largely shaped the contours of global nature conservation over the past century. The scope of "The Game of Conservation"ranges from the African savannahs and the skies of North America to the frigid waters of the Antarctic. Zusammenfassung The Game of Conservation is a brilliantly crafted and highly readable examination of nature protection around the world.Twentieth-century nature conservation treaties often originated as attempts to regulate the pace of killing rather than as attempts to protect animal habitat.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Cioc
• Publisher: University of ohio press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2009
• EAN: 9780821418666
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-1866-6
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Ecology & History; Ohio University Press Series i; Series in Ecology and History; Ecology & History
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law