Civilizing Nature
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Civilizing Nature
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Author : Bernhard Gissibl
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2012-11-30
Civilizing Nature written by Bernhard Gissibl and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-30 with History categories.
National parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon. The development of these ecological and political systems cannot be understood as a simple reaction to mounting environmental problems, nor can it be explained by the spread of environmental sensibilities. Shifting the focus from the usual emphasis on national parks in the United States, this volume adopts an historical and transnational perspective on the global geography of protected areas and its changes over time. It focuses especially on the actors, networks, mechanisms, arenas, and institutions responsible for the global spread of the national park and the associated utilization and mobilization of asymmetrical relationships of power and knowledge, contributing to scholarly discussions of globalization and the emergence of global environmental institutions and governance.
Civilising Natures
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Author : Kavita Philip
language : en
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
Release Date : 2003
Civilising Natures written by Kavita Philip and has been published by Orient Blackswan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Colonization categories.
Science, both as a scholarly discipline and as a concept in the popular imagination, was critical to building hegemony in the British Empire. It also inspired alternative ideas of progress by elites and the disenfranchised: these competing spectres continue to haunt postcolonial modernities. Why and how has science so powerfully shaped both the common sense of individuals and the development of postcolonial states? Philip suggests that our ideas of race and resources are key. Civilising Natures tells us how race and nature are fundamental to understanding colonial modernities, and along the way, it complicates our understandings of the relationships between science and religion, pre-modern and civilised, environment and society.
Civilizing Thoreau
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Author : Richard J. Schneider
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2016
Civilizing Thoreau written by Richard J. Schneider and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Literary Collections categories.
7: Nature and the Origins of American Civilization in Cape Cod -- Part IV. America's Destiny and Ecological Succession -- 8: Thoreau and Manifest Destiny -- Works Cited -- Index
Civilizing Natures
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Author : Kavita Philip
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2004
Civilizing Natures written by Kavita Philip and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Annotation "An interdisciplinary exploration of science, nature, and race in colonial India."
Nature And Civilization
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Author : Mulford Quickert Sibley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Nature And Civilization written by Mulford Quickert Sibley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with categories.
Nature And Civilization
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Author : Mulford Q. Sibley
language : en
Publisher: Wadsworth
Release Date : 1977
Nature And Civilization written by Mulford Q. Sibley and has been published by Wadsworth this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Nature categories.
No Man S Garden
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Author : Daniel B. Botkin
language : en
Publisher: Island Press
Release Date : 2000-10-01
No Man S Garden written by Daniel B. Botkin and has been published by Island Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-01 with Science categories.
In No Man's Garden, ecologist Daniel Botkin takes a fresh look at the life and writings of Henry David Thoreau to discover a model for reconciling the conflict between nature and civilization that lies at the heart of our environmental problems. He offers an insightful reinterpretation of Thoreau, drawing a surprising picture of the “hermit of Walden” as a man who loved wildness, but who found it in the woods and swamps on the outskirts of town as easily as in the remote forests of Maine, and who firmly believed in the value and importance of human beings and civilization.Botkin integrates into the familiar image of Thoreau, the solitary seeker, other, equally important aspects of his personality and career -- as a first-rate ecologist whose close, long-term observation of his surroundings shows the value of using a scientific approach, as an engineer who was comfortable working out technical problems in his father's pencil factory, and as someone who was deeply concerned about the spiritual importance of nature to people.This new view of one of the founding fathers of American environmental thought lays the groundwork for an innovative approach to solving environmental problems. Botkin argues that the topics typically thought of as “environmental,” and the issues and concerns of “environmentalism,” are in fact rooted in some of humanity's deepest concerns -- our fundamental physical and spiritual connection with nature, and the mutually beneficial ways that society and nature can persist together. He makes the case that by understanding the true scientific, philosophical, and spiritual bases of environmental positions we will be able to develop a means of preserving the health of our biosphere that simultaneously allows for the further growth and development of civilization.No Man's Garden presents a vital challenge to the assumptions and conventional wisdom of environmentalism, and will be must reading for anyone interested in developing a deeper understanding of interactions between humans and nature.
Civilizing The Wilderness
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Author : A.A. (Andy) den Otter
language : en
Publisher: University of Alberta
Release Date : 2012-07-02
Civilizing The Wilderness written by A.A. (Andy) den Otter and has been published by University of Alberta this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-02 with History categories.
In this collection of essays, A.A. den Otter explores the meaning of the concepts "civilizing" and "wilderness" within an 1850s Euro-British North American context. At the time, den Otter argues, these concepts meant something quite different than they do today. Through careful readings and researches of a variety of lesser known individuals and events, den Otter teases out the striking dichotomy between "civilizing" and "wilderness," leading readers to a new understanding of the relationship between newcomers and Native peoples, and the very lands they inhabited. Historians and non-specialists with an interest in western Canadian native, settler, and environmental-economic history will be deeply rewarded by reading Civilizing the Wilderness.
Creating Wilderness
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Author : Patrick Kupper
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2014-07-30
Creating Wilderness written by Patrick Kupper and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-30 with History categories.
The history of the Swiss National Park, from its creation in the years before the Great War to the present, is told for the first time in this book. Unlike Yellowstone Park, which embodied close cooperation between state-supported conservation and public recreation, the Swiss park put in place an extraordinarily strong conservation program derived from a close alliance between the state and scientific research. This deliberate reinterpretation of the American idea of the national park was innovative and radical, but its consequences were not limited to Switzerland. The Swiss park became the prime example of a "scientific national park," thereby influencing the course of national parks worldwide.
The Edges Of The Civilized World
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Author : Alison Hawthorne Deming
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
The Edges Of The Civilized World written by Alison Hawthorne Deming and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Science categories.
Looks at civilization's progress and ways to strike a balance between nature and the world's population