Chapter ID: CBB001420350

Epilogue: Preservation in the Age of Entanglement: STS and the History of Future Urban Nature (2013)

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Preservation and conservation are standard tropes of environmental history, nowadays often cited as icons of the field's backward past rather than its bright future. In this chapter I argue that, on the contrary, there is currently a major transformation regarding how we understand the social-ecological processes of protecting nature ...

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Book Jørgensen, Dolly; Jørgensen, Finn Arne; Pritchard, Sara B (2013) New Natures: Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Skelton, Leona J.
Hrvoje Petrić
Ivana Žebec Šilj
Hultgren, John
Dan McKanan
MacDowell, Laurel Sefton
Concepts
Environmentalism
Environmental history
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Environmental protection
Urbanization
Nature
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
18th century
20th century, late
17th century
Places
United States
New York (U.S.)
Los Angeles (California)
England
Georgia (U.S.)
Hawaii (U.S.)
Institutions
United States. National Park Service
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