Nature of the Miracle Years: Conservation in West Germany, 1945-1975
Nature of the Miracle Years traces the gradual development of the German conservation movement through the democratization perido of postwar German society.
Nature of the Miracle Years traces the gradual development of the German conservation movement through the democratization perido of postwar German society.
The Environment and Sustainable Development in the New Central Europe highlights creative solutions being implemented in Central and East Central Europe to overcome environmental problems and ensure sustainable development.
Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples presents case studies on the effects of modern conservation projects on local and indigenous populations across the world, and highlights lessons to be learnt for sustainable development.
From the early exploits of Teddy Roosevelt in Africa to blockbuster films such as March of the Penguins, Gregg Mitman reveals how changing values, scientific developments, and new technologies have come to shape American encounters with wildlife on and off the big screen.
This book reveals how IUCN experts struggled to make global schemes for nature conservation a central concern for UNESCO, UNEP and other intergovernmental organizations.
This collection of studies provides valuable historical contexts for making sense of contemporary environmental challenges facing Latin America.
The history of the Swiss National Park is told for the first time in Creating Wilderness. The deliberate reinterpretation of the American idea of the national park, as implemented in Yellowstone, was innovative and radical, but its consequences were not limited to Switzerland. The Swiss park became the prime example of a “scientific national park,” thereby influencing the course of national parks worldwide.
In linking culture with nature, science with history, Man and Nature was the most influential text of its time next to Darwin’s On the Origin of Species.