Spatializing the history of ecology : sites, journeys, mappings /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Bont, Raf de, 1977- (Editor, Contributor), Lachmund, Jens (Editor, Contributor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
Series:Routledge studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine ; 29.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : knowing nature, making space / Raf de Bont and Jens Lachmund
  • Mapping Heimat : amateur natural history and plant ecology in imperial Germany / Nils Güttler
  • Life zones : the rise and decline of a theory of the geographic distribution of species / Roderick P. Neumann
  • A laboratory for tropical ecology : colonial models and American science at Cinchona, Jamaica / Megan Raby
  • Field stations and the problem of scale : local, regional, and global at the Desert Lab / Jeremy Vetter
  • Ecology and rehabilitation : the west highland survey / Mark Toogood
  • Ecosystem simulation as a practice of emplacement : the Desert Biome Project, 1970-1974 / Etienne S. Benson
  • The city as an ecosystem : Paul Duvigneaud and the ecological study of Brussels / Jens Lachmund
  • Extinct in the wild : finding a place for the European bison, 1919-1952 / Raf De Bont
  • Islands and bioregions : global reserve design models and the making of national parks, 1960-2000 / Simone Schleper and Hans Schouwenburg
  • Space, place, land, and sea : the "ecological discovery" of the global Wadden Sea / Anna-Katharina Wöbse
  • Epilogue / Raf de Bont and Jens Lachmund.