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Book Contribution a l   tude des r  serves naturelles at des parcs nationaux

Download or read book Contribution a l tude des r serves naturelles at des parcs nationaux written by P. Lechevalier and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Contribution    l   tude des r  serves naturelles et des parcs nationaux

Download or read book Contribution l tude des r serves naturelles et des parcs nationaux written by FRANCE. SOCIETE DE BIOGEOGRAPHIE. and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Contribution    l   tude des r  serves naturelles et des parcs nationaux

Download or read book Contribution l tude des r serves naturelles et des parcs nationaux written by André Aubréville and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Les   quilibres naturels de vie et la protection de la nature

Download or read book Les quilibres naturels de vie et la protection de la nature written by Arnold Pictet and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Natural Interests

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  • Author : Caroline Ford
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2016-03-28
  • ISBN : 0674968891
  • Pages : 175 pages

Download or read book Natural Interests written by Caroline Ford and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-28 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the conventional wisdom that French environmentalism can be dated only to the post-1945 period, Caroline Ford argues that a broadly shared environmental consciousness emerged in France much earlier. Natural Interests unearths the distinctive features of French environmentalism, in which a large and varied cast of social actors played a role. Besides scientific advances and colonial expansion, nostalgia for a vanishing pastoral countryside and anxiety over the pressing dangers of environmental degradation were important factors in the success of this movement. Over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, war, political upheaval, and natural disasters—especially the devastating floods of 1856 and 1910 in Paris—caused growing worry over the damage wrought by deforestation, urbanization, and industrialization. The natural world took on new value for France’s urban bourgeoisie, as both a site of aesthetic longing and a destination for tourism. Not only naturalists and scientists but politicians, engineers, writers, and painters took up environmental causes. Imperialism and international dialogue were also instrumental in shaping environmental consciousness, as the unfamiliar climates of France’s overseas possessions changed perceptions of the natural world and influenced conservationist policies. By the early twentieth century, France had adopted innovative environmental legislation, created national and urban parks and nature reserves, and called for international cooperation on environmental questions.

Book World Conference on National Parks  1st   Proceedings of a Conference Organized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources     Seattle  Washington  June 30   July 7  1962

Download or read book World Conference on National Parks 1st Proceedings of a Conference Organized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources Seattle Washington June 30 July 7 1962 written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book First World Conference on National Parks

Download or read book First World Conference on National Parks written by Alexander B. Adams and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Civilizing Nature

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  • Author : Bernhard Gissibl,
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 2012-01-15
  • ISBN : 0857455257
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Civilizing Nature written by Bernhard Gissibl, and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon.

Book Biosphere Reserves and Sustainable Development Goals 2

Download or read book Biosphere Reserves and Sustainable Development Goals 2 written by Bruno Romagny and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-02-24 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1971, UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme has embraced a number of principles that link the political, scientific and academic spheres. Biosphere Reserves and Sustainable Development Goals 2 is a reminder of the fundamental issues involved in governance. The diversity and multiplicity of stakeholders, and the complexity of the interplay between them, as well as their organization, are decisive factors in the proper management of resources and territories. The book also presents a number of case studies demonstrating that, between the strong development aspirations of their populations, the impact of human activities and the need to conserve their biological heritage, the biosphere reserves of the southern Mediterranean are facing major issues: agricultural pollution, forest fires, water use in a context of climate change, etc.

Book The Mountain

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  • Author : Bernard Debarbieux
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2015-09-10
  • ISBN : 022603111X
  • Pages : 367 pages

Download or read book The Mountain written by Bernard Debarbieux and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the Enlightenment to the present day, and using a variety of case studies from all the continents, the authors show us how our ideas of and about mountains have changed with the times and how a wide range of policies, from border delineation to forestry as well as nature protection and social programs, have been shaped according to them. A rich hybrid analysis of geography, history, culture, and politics."--Jacket.

Book Nature s Diplomats

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  • Author : Raf De Bont
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Release : 2021-05-11
  • ISBN : 0822988062
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book Nature s Diplomats written by Raf De Bont and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Water on Sand

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  • Author : Alan Mikhail
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2013-01-10
  • ISBN : 0199768668
  • Pages : 347 pages

Download or read book Water on Sand written by Alan Mikhail and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making environmental history accessible to scholars of the Middle East and the history of the region accessible to environmental historians, Water on Sand opens up new fields of scholarly inquiry.

Book Ninety Years of the Abruzzo National Park 1922 2012

Download or read book Ninety Years of the Abruzzo National Park 1922 2012 written by Luigi Piccioni and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 9th, 2012, the Abruzzo National Park – now Abruzzo, Latium and Molise National Park – celebrated its ninetieth birthday. It is – along with the Gran Paradiso National Park – the oldest protected area in Italy and one of the oldest in Europe. The colloquium held in Pescasseroli in May 2012, on which this volume is based, reconstructed the highlights of the Park’s troubled but always influential history and took stock of its connections with the other protected areas, with Italian and international environmentalism and with the Italian society at large.

Book Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire

Download or read book Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire written by Corey Ross and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire provides the first wide-ranging environmental history of the heyday of European imperialism, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the colonial era. It focuses on the ecological dimensions of the explosive growth of tropical commodity production, global trade, and modern resource management strategies that still visibly shape our world today, and how they were related to broader social, cultural, and political developments in Europe's colonies. Covering the overseas empires of all the major European powers, Corey Ross argues that tropical environments were not merely a stage on which conquest and subjugation took place, but were an essential part of the colonial project, profoundly shaping the imperial enterprise even as they were shaped by it. The story he tells is not only about the complexities of human experience, but also about people's relationship with the ecosystems in which they were themselves embedded: the soil, water, plants, and animals that were likewise a part of Europe's empire. Although it shows that imperial conquest rarely represented the signal ecological trauma that some accounts suggest, it nonetheless demonstrates that modern imperialism marked a decisive and largely negative milestone for the natural environment. By relating the expansion of modern empire, global trade, and mass consumption to the momentous ecological shifts that they entailed, this book provides a historical perspective on the vital nexus of social, political, and environmental issues that we face in the twenty-first-century world.

Book Histoire des parcs nationaux

Download or read book Histoire des parcs nationaux written by Raphaël Larrère and published by Editions Quae. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cet ouvrage livre les clés de l'évolution des politiques de la nature dans les parcs nationaux français et des controverses qui l'ont marquée. Une première partie relate « l'histoire et les mémoires » des parcs métropolitains avec l'étude de la conception des premiers projets de parcs (Vanoise, Cévennes et Pyrénées) ainsi que l'analyse des difficultés rencontrées pour créer un parc en mer d'Iroise. L'adoption problématique de la biodiversité comme norme d'action depuis les années 1990 avec pour exemple les parcs des Cévennes et des Pyrénées, fait l'objet des chapitres suivants. La conclusion retrace l'itinéraire qui a conduit les parcs nationaux de la protection de la nature à la gestion de la biodiversité. Elle met en évidence le défi qui reste à relever : transformer en partenaires des parcs des usagers qui leur furent longtemps hostiles. Ce livre s'adresse à ceux qui sont concernés par la préservation et la gestion de la biodiversité dans les parcs nationaux et dans les autres espaces protégés. Il intéressera plus généralement les gestionnaires et les militants qui cherchent une façon d'habiter la nature et d'en tirer parti tout en la respectant.

Book Les parcs nationaux

Download or read book Les parcs nationaux written by Claude Lachaux and published by Presses Universitaires de France - PUF. This book was released on 1980 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: