Creating wilderness : a transnational history of the Swiss National Park / / Patrick Kupper ; translated by Giselle Weiss
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| Autore: |
Kupper Patrick
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| Titolo: |
Creating wilderness : a transnational history of the Swiss National Park / / Patrick Kupper ; translated by Giselle Weiss
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Berghahn, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 333.7209494 |
| Soggetto topico: | Nature conservation - Switzerland - History |
| Soggetto geografico: | Schweizerischer Nationalpark (Switzerland) History |
| Persona (resp. second.): | Giselle WeissGiselle |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Global Parks: National Parks, Globalization, and Western Modernism; Chapter 2 - National Natures: The Swiss National Park and the Conservationist Internationale; Chapter 3 - Local Landscapes: Political Spaces, Institutional Arrangements, and Subjective Attitudes; Chapter 4 - Total Protection: Philosophy and Practice of Freely Developing Nature; Chapter 5 - Ecological Field Laboratory: The Park as a Scientific Experiment; Chapter 6 - Wilderness Limits: Natural Dynamics and Social Equilibrium |
| Conclusion - Creating WildernessBibliography; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Creating wilderness |
| ISBN: | 1-78238-374-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910807330703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Environment in history ; ; Volume 4.