Planning for the Planet

Environmental Expertise and the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1960–1980

Simone Schleper (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

294 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-83695-065-3 (ISBN)

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During the 1960s and 1970s, rapidly growing environmental awareness and concern created unprecedented demand for ecological expertise and novel challenges for ecological advocacy groups such as the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). This book reveals how, despite their vast scientific knowledge and their attempts to incorporate socially relevant themes, IUCN experts inevitably struggled to make global schemes for nature conservation a central concern for UNESCO, UNEP and other intergovernmental organizations.

Simone Schleper works at Maastricht University, where she also obtained her doctorate. She held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz in 2018 and a visiting research fellowship at the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University in 2014.

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Introduction: Conserving Global Nature

Chapter 1. Old Hands, Pastures New: IUCN and the New Environmental Age

Chapter 2. Classifying Ecosystems: The International Biological Program, 1964–1974

Chapter 3. Expertise and Diplomacy: Systems Politics at the UN Stockholm Conference, 1972

Chapter 4. Nature’s Value: The Fault Lines in the World Conservation Strategy, 1975–1980

Conclusion: IUCN and Environmental Expertise, 1960s–Present

Appendix: Expert Biographies

      Harold Jefferson Coolidge

      Edward Max Nicholson

      Raymond Dasmann

      Gerardo Budowski

      Martin Edward Duncan Poore

      Maurice Frederick Strong

Bibliography

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Erscheinungsdatum	08.05.2025
Reihe/Serie	Environment in History: International Perspectives
Zusatzinfo	16 Tables, unspecified; 16 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	1-83695-065-9 / 1836950659
ISBN-13	978-1-83695-065-3 / 9781836950653
Zustand	Neuware