National parks beyond the nation global perspectives on "America's best idea"
Introduction / Adrian Howkins, Mark Fiege, and Jared Orsi -- Beyond the best idea : a look at Mount Rainer, Antarctica, and the Sonoran Desert / Mark Fiege, Adrian Howkins, and Jared Orsi -- Part I. Origins -- Canada's best idea? : the Canadian and American national park services in the 1910s /...
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University of Oklahoma Press
2016
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| Schriftenreihe: | Public lands history series
volume 1 |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction / Adrian Howkins, Mark Fiege, and Jared Orsi -- Beyond the best idea : a look at Mount Rainer, Antarctica, and the Sonoran Desert / Mark Fiege, Adrian Howkins, and Jared Orsi -- Part I. Origins -- Canada's best idea? : the Canadian and American national park services in the 1910s / Alan MacEachern -- A short history of the New Zealand national park system / Theodore Catton -- Conservation on tour : comparing nations, scientists, and parks in the Americas / Emily Wakild -- Nature's laboratories? : exploring the intersection of science and national parks / Patrick Kupper -- Part II. Ideas -- "Why celebrate a controversy?" : South Africa, the United States, and national parks / Jane Carruthers -- Dragons or volcanoes? : national parks and nature loving in new order Indonesia, c. 1980-1998 / Steven Rodriguez -- Nature conservation in Africa's Great Rift Valley : a study in culture and history / Chris Conte -- Part III. Boundaries -- "100 dangerous animals roaming loose" : grizzly bear management in Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, 1932-2000 / Karen Routledge -- From randomness to planning : the 1979 plan for Brazilian national parks / Jose Drummond -- Conquering sacred ground? : climbing Uluru and Devils Tower / Ann McGrath -- The trouble with climate change and national parks / Mark Carey -- Geographies of hope : lessons from a world of national parks / Paul S. Sutter. "National Parks beyond the Nation brings together the work of fifteen scholars and writers to reveal the tremendous diversity of the global national park experience - an experience sometimes influencing, sometimes influenced by, and sometimes with no reference whatever to the United States. They explore the historical interactions and influences - intellectual, political, and material - within and between national park systems in Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Indonesia, Antarctica, Brazil, and other countries"--Provided by publisher Introduction / Adrian Howkins, Mark Fiege, and Jared Orsi -- Beyond the best idea : a look at Mount Rainer, Antarctica, and the Sonoran Desert / Mark Fiege, Adrian Howkins, and Jared Orsi -- Part I. Origins -- Canada's best idea? : the Canadian and American national park services in the 1910s / Alan MacEachern -- A short history of the New Zealand national park system / Theodore Catton -- Conservation on tour : comparing nations, scientists, and parks in the Americas / Emily Wakild -- Nature's laboratories? : exploring the intersection of science and national parks / Patrick Kupper -- Part II. Ideas -- "Why celebrate a controversy?" : South Africa, the United States, and national parks / Jane Carruthers -- Dragons or volcanoes? : national parks and nature loving in new order Indonesia, c. 1980-1998 / Steven Rodriguez -- Nature conservation in Africa's Great Rift Valley : a study in culture and history / Chris Conte -- Part III. Boundaries -- "100 dangerous animals roaming loose" : grizzly bear management in Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, 1932-2000 / Karen Routledge -- From randomness to planning : the 1979 plan for Brazilian national parks / Jose Drummond -- Conquering sacred ground? : climbing Uluru and Devils Tower / Ann McGrath -- The trouble with climate change and national parks / Mark Carey -- Geographies of hope : lessons from a world of national parks / Paul S. Sutter |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xiii, 319 Seiten Illustrationen 24.2 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780806152257 978-0-8061-5225-7 |