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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: moderating force
    sub title: conserving nature in national parks in Patagonia and Amazonia
  name:
    name part: Wakild, Emily
    name part: 1977-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: pages cm.
  abstract: "More than a quarter of South America's territory is designated for nature conservation. National parks have formally existed there for nearly one hundred years. How and why did this happen? A Moderating Force explains the origins, evolution, and meaning of national parks in Patagonia and Amazonia to demonstrate how conservation brought people together. Scientists, bureaucrats, residents, boosters, settlers, politicians, entrepreneurs, or some combination of these figures used conservation to force each other to compromise over park designation and land management.. Who those people were and why they devoted themselves to protecting specific places helps to explain the intentions behind and consequences of national parks. Many of these parks advanced popular understandings of nature's value through such concepts as biodiversity. Because conservationists negotiated compromises, multispecies communities avoided destruction and communities flourished. In many cases, national parks opened opportunities for new professional identities in tourism, management, or inquiry. Current scholarship lacks ways to bring critical social insights together alongside urgent ecological demands. By telling stories about the middle ground where Argentines, Brazilians, Chileans, and Peruvians transformed conservation work and made consequential innovations in nature protection, this book helps position environmental history to be part of a collective and abundant future"-- Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: Introduction : A moderating force -- Nahuel Huapi (1934) : Geographic storytelling and nationalizing Argentine nature -- Torres del Paine (1959) : Extinction and invasion in Chilean landscapes -- Manu (1973) : Doing tropical field biology in a Peruvian rain forest -- Jaú (1980) : Refuges by design in Brazilian scientific communities -- The processes of conserving nature in Patagonia and Amazonia -- Epilogue : Towards a future of national parks.
  note: Emily Wakild.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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  subject:
    topic: National parks and reserves
    geographic: Amazon River Region
  subject:
    topic: National parks and reserves
    geographic: Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)
  subject:
    topic: Nature conservation
    geographic: Amazon River Region
  subject:
    topic: Nature conservation
    geographic: Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)
  subject:
    geographic: Amazon River Region
    topic: Environmental conditions
  subject:
    geographic: Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)
    topic: Environmental conditions
  subject:
    geographic: South America
    topic: Environmental conditions
  subject:
    topic: Parcs nationaux
    geographic: Patagonie (Argentine et Chili)
  subject:
    topic: Nature
    topic: Conservation
    geographic: Patagonie (Argentine et Chili)
  subject:
    geographic: Amazonie équatorienne (Équateur)
    topic: Conditions environnementales
  subject:
    geographic: Patagonie (Argentine et Chili)
    topic: Conditions environnementales
  classification: SB484.S53 W35 2026
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    title info:
      title: Moderating force
    name:
      name part: Wakild, Emily, 1977-
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2026]
    identifier: (DLC) 2025052905
  related item:
    identifier: (DLC) 2025052904
    identifier: (OCoLC)1543002294
  identifier: 9780197654057 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 0197654053 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9780197654019
  identifier: 0197654010
  identifier: 9780197654026
  identifier: 0197654029
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: NhCcYBP
    record creation date: 260216
    record change date: 20260315044941.9
    record identifier: in00005695541
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng