"The Politics of the Conservation of Nature"
Commentary on the articles in this special issue of Environment and History, “Ecological Visionaries/Ecologised Visions.”
Commentary on the articles in this special issue of Environment and History, “Ecological Visionaries/Ecologised Visions.”
Hugh Bennett, then Chief of the United States Soil Conservation Service, paid a two-month official visit to South Africa in 1944, a trip that threw into relief, inter alia, the administrative division between the Department of Agriculture, responsible for soil conservation on white-owned farms, and the Department of Native Affairs, responsible for soil conservation in so-called ‘native areas.’
Rhododendron ponticum is the most expensive alien plant conservation problem in Britain and Ireland.
This paper explores the social and political factors that historically limited the national nature conservation movement’s influence in Japan, and outlines recent developments which may lead to both a greater emphasis on the greater participation of non-governmental organisations in the political process, and a greater emphasis on the protection of the natural environment.