| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 266 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
The environment in history : international perspectives ; volume 4 |
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Environment in history ; v. 4.
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| Contents |
Global parks : national parks, globalization, and western modernism -- National natures : the Swiss National Park and the Conservationist Internationale -- Local landscapes : political spaces, institutional arrangements, and subjective attitudes -- Total protection : philosophy and practice of freely developing nature -- Ecological field laboratory : the park as a scientific experiment -- Wilderness limits : natural dynamics and social equilibrium |
| Summary |
The history of the Swiss National Park, from its creation in the years before the Great War to the present, is told for the first time in this book. Unlike Yellowstone Park, which embodied close cooperation between state-supported conservation and public recreation, the Swiss park put in place an extraordinarily strong conservation program derived from a close alliance between the state and scientific research. This deliberate reinterpretation of the American idea of the national park was innovative and radical, but its consequences were not limited to Switzerland |
| Notes |
Translation of: Wildnis schaffen : eine transnationale Geschichte des Schweizerischen Nationalparks. Bern : Haupt, 2012 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Nature conservation -- Switzerland -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
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Nature conservation
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| SUBJECT |
Schweizerischer Nationalpark (Switzerland) -- History
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| Subject |
Switzerland
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Switzerland -- Schweizerischer Nationalpark
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Weiss, Giselle, translator
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| ISBN |
9781782383741 |
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1782383743 |
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