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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.
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.
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.
Today, the environment seems omnipresent in European policy within
and beyond the European Union. The idea of a shared European
environment, however, has come a long way and is still being
contested. Greening Europe focuses on the many ways people have
interacted with nature and made it an issue of European concern.
The authors ask how notions of Europe mattered in these activities
and they expose the many entanglements of activists across the
subcontinent who set out to connect and network, and to exchange
knowledge, worldviews, and strategies that exceeded their national
horizons. Moving beyond human agency, the handbook also highlights
the eminent role nature played in both "greening" Europe and making
Europe a shared environment.
As an intellectual, industrialist, and minister as well as the
author of numerous papers and letters, Walther Rathenau was an
important figure of his times in business, politics, sociology, and
art. The classical phase of the modern age in which he lived
continues to have reverberations today. This volume examines
Rathenau s positions as well as the modes of remembrance and
attribution that have accompanied him ever since his violent
death."
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