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Viser: Ecologists and Environmental Politics - A History of Contemporary Ecology
Ecologists and Environmental Politics
A History of Contemporary Ecology
Stephen Bocking
(2017)
Sprog: Engelsk
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- Paperback: 298 sider
- Udgiver: West Virginia University Press (Marts 2017)
- ISBN: 9781943665648
Bocking tells this history through four case studies: the origins and early research of the Nature Conservancy in Great Britain; the development of ecology at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee; the work of the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study in New Hampshire; and research in fisheries ecology at the University of Toronto. By comparing these case studies, Bocking demonstrates how the places of contemporary science--laboratories, landscapes, and funding agencies--and science's purposes, as expressed through the political roles of expertise and specific managerial and regulatory responsibilities, have shaped contemporary ecology and its application to pressing environmental problems.