Planning for the Planet - Environmental Expertise International Union for Conservation of

Informationen zum Autor Simone Schleper works at Maastricht University, where she also obtained her doctorate. She held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz in 2018 and a visiting research fellowship at the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University in 2014. Klappentext During the 1960s and 1970s, rapidly growing environmental awareness and concern created unprecedented demand for ecological expertise and novel challenges for ecological advocacy groups such as the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). This book reveals how, despite their vast scientific knowledge and their attempts to incorporate socially relevant themes, IUCN experts inevitably struggled to make global schemes for nature conservation a central concern for UNESCO, UNEP and other intergovernmental organizations. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Conserving Global Nature Chapter 1. Old Hands, Pastures New: IUCN and the New Environmental Age Chapter 2. Classifying Ecosystems: The International Biological Program, 1964-1974 Chapter 3. Expertise and Diplomacy: Systems Politics at the UN Stockholm Conference, 1972 Chapter 4. Nature's Value: The Fault Lines in the World Conservation Strategy, 1975-1980 Conclusion: IUCN and Environmental Expertise, 1960s-Present Appendix: Expert Biographies       Harold Jefferson Coolidge       Edward Max Nicholson       Raymond Dasmann       Gerardo Budowski       Martin Edward Duncan Poore       Maurice Frederick Strong Bibliography Index

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Simone Schleper
• Editore: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781789202984
• ISBN: 978-1-78920-298-4
• Pagine: 274
• Serie: Environment in History: Intern; Environment in History: International Perspectives; Environment in History: Intern
• Categorie: Saggistica > Natura, tecnica > Natura: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Ecologia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > XX° secolo (fino al 1945); World, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SCIENCE / History, Conservation of wildlife & habitats, Environmentalist, Conservationist & Green Organizations, Environmentalist, conservationist and Green organizations, Conservation of wildlife and habitats