Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency
This book offers a history of the conservation movement’s origins and provides a context for understanding contemporary enviromental problems and possible solutions.
This book offers a history of the conservation movement’s origins and provides a context for understanding contemporary enviromental problems and possible solutions.
Nature of the Miracle Years traces the gradual development of the German conservation movement through the democratization perido of postwar German society.
This book reveals how IUCN experts struggled to make global schemes for nature conservation a central concern for UNESCO, UNEP and other intergovernmental organizations.
Excerpt from The Beloved Face of the Country: The First Movement for Nature Protection in Italy, 1880–1934.
The text “Weltnaturschutz” (World nature protection) by Paul Sarasin (1856–1929) is a key document in the history of the global nature conservation movement.