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Spatializing the History of Ecology: Sites, Journeys, Mappings book cover

1st Edition

Spatializing the History of Ecology Sites, Journeys, Mappings

Edited By Raf de Bont, Jens Lachmund Copyright 2017
250 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Throughout its history, the discipline of ecology has always been profoundly entangled with the history of space and place. On the one hand, ecology is a field science that has thrived on the study of concrete spatial entities, such as islands, forests or rivers. These spaces are the workplaces in which ecological phenomena are identified, observed and experimented on. They provide both epistemic... Read more

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

　

1. Introduction: Places of Ecology/Ecologies of Place

Raf De Bont and Jens Lachmund

　

Part I: Crafting Zones and Regions

　

2. Mapping Heimat: Amateur Natural History and Plant Ecology in Imperial Germany

Nils Güttler

　

3. Discovering Nature’s Secret Spaces: The Rise and Fall of Life Zone Theory in North American Ecology

Roderick Neumann

　

4. A Laboratory for Tropical Ecology: Colonial Models and American Science at Cinchona, Jamaica

Megan Raby

　

5. Field Stations and the Problem of Scale: Local, Regional, and Global at the Desert Lab

Jeremy Vetter

　

6. Ecology and Total Landscape: The West Highland Survey

Mark Toogood

　

Part II: Modelling Systems

　

7. Ecosystem Simulation as a Practice of Emplacement

Etienne Benson

　

8. The City as an Ecosystem: Paul Duvigneaud and the Ecological Study of Brussels

Jens Lachmund

　

Part III: Fashioning Objects of Conservation

　

9. Extinct in the Wild: Finding a Place for the European Bison

Raf De Bont

　

10. The Ecological Discovery of the Global Wadden Sea

Anna-Katharina Wöbse

　

11. From Wildlife Sanctuary to Biodiversity Hotspot: Global Reserve Design Models and the Making of Chitwan National Park

Simone Schleper and Hans Schouwenburg

　

Conclusion

Raf De Bont and Jens Lachmund

　

Index

Biography

Raf de Bont is a Lecturer in the History Department at Maastricht University.

Jens Lachmund is a Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies at Maastricht University.

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