Book ID: CBB462209355

Nature's Diplomats: Science, Internationalism, and Preservation, 1920-1960 (2021)

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Bont, Raf de (Author)


University of Pittsburgh Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 383
Language: English

Nature’s Diplomats explores the development of science-based and internationally conceived nature protection in its foundational years before the 1960s, the decade when it launched from obscurity onto the global stage. Raf De Bont studies a movement while it was still in the making and its groups were still rather small, revealing the geographies of the early international preservationist groups, their social composition, self-perception, ethos, and predilections, their ideals and strategies, and the natures they sought to preserve. By examining international efforts to protect migratory birds, the threatened European bison, and the mountain gorilla in the interior of the Belgian Congo, Nature’s Diplomats sheds new light on the launch of major international organizations for nature protection in the aftermath of World War II. Additionally, it covers how the rise of ecological science, the advent of the Cold War, and looming decolonization forced a rethinking of approach and rhetoric; and how old ideas and practices lingered on. It provides much-needed historical context for present-day convictions about and approaches to the preservation of species and the conservation of natural resources, the involvement of local communities in conservation projects, the fate of extinct species and vanished habitats, and the management of global nature.

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Review Ian Tyrrell (2023) Review of "Nature's Diplomats: Science, Internationalism, and Preservation, 1920-1960". Journal of the History of Biology (pp. 197-200). unapi

Review Wilko Graf von Hardenberg (2022) Review of "Nature's Diplomats: Science, Internationalism, and Preservation, 1920-1960". Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza (pp. 753-755). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Vaccaro, Ismael
Mausbach, Wilfried
Gassert, Philipp
Beltran, Oriol
Wohl, Ellen E.
Willard, Andrew R.
Concepts
Environmental sciences
Ecology
Environmental protection
Natural resource management
International relations
Environmental history
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
20th century, early
Medieval
21st century
19th century
Places
United States
Maine (U.S.)
Danube river
Nile River
Missouri (U.S.)
England
Institutions
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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