Nature's Diplomats: Science, Internationalism, and Preservation, 1920-1960

by Raf De Bont

Nature's Diplomats explores the development of science-based and internationally conceived nature protection in its foundational years before the 1960s, the decade when it launched from obscurity onto the global stage. Raf De Bont studies a movement while it was still in the making and its groups were still rather small, revealing the geographies of the early international preservationist groups, their social composition, self-perception, ethos,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822946610
• ISBN13: 9780822946618
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.3" x 9.1"