Planning for the Planet

Environmental Expertise and the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1960-1980
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-298-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 524 g

Reihe: Environment in History: International Perspectives

During the 1960s and 1970s, rapidly growing environmental awareness and concern created unprecedented demand for ecological expertise and novel challenges for ecological advocacy groups such as the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). This book reveals how, despite their vast scientific knowledge and their attempts to incorporate socially relevant themes, IUCN experts inevitably struggled to make global schemes for nature conservation a central concern for UNESCO, UNEP and other intergovernmental organizations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schleper, Simone

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Umweltgeschichte & Umweltarchäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction: Conserving Global Nature

Chapter 1. Old Hands, Pastures New: IUCN and the New Environmental Age

Chapter 2. Classifying Ecosystems: The International Biological Program, 1964–1974

Chapter 3. Expertise and Diplomacy: Systems Politics at the UN Stockholm Conference, 1972

Chapter 4. Nature’s Value: The Fault Lines in the World Conservation Strategy, 1975–1980

Conclusion: IUCN and Environmental Expertise, 1960s–Present

Appendix: Expert Biographies

      Harold Jefferson Coolidge

      Edward Max Nicholson

      Raymond Dasmann

      Gerardo Budowski

      Martin Edward Duncan Poore

      Maurice Frederick Strong

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Schleper, Simone
Simone Schleper works at Maastricht University, where she also obtained her doctorate. She held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz in 2018 and a visiting research fellowship at the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University in 2014.