Civilizing Nature

National Parks in Global Historical Perspective

306 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Explores the concept and expansion of the National Park from a global historical perspective, studying how a Western blueprint organised social and cultural relations to Nature into a multitude of ecological as well as political systems all over the world Situates the idea of confining nature to a park between Western concepts, practices and topographies of nature preservation and their localisation and adaptation in different historical, political, social, and ecological settings around the world. Focuses on the actors, networks, mechanisms and institutions responsible for the global transfer of National Parks and critically discusses the utilisation and mobilisation of assymetrical relationships of power and knowledge in different parts of the world. Makes a benchmark contribution to the historiography of globalisation and the emergence of of both global environmental institutions and governance

• Reihe: Environment in History: International Perspectives
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte
• ISBN: 9780857455253
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2012
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Herausgegeben von: Bernhard Gissibl, Patrick Kupper, Sabine Höhler