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Creating Wilderness: A Transnational History of the Swiss National Park

By Patrick Kupper

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2014
ISBN
1782383735, 9781782383734
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4401880 bytes)
Series
Environment in History: International Perspectives
Edition
1
Pages
276\277
Time added
2018-06-06 16:32:24
Environmental Economics;Economics;Business & MoneyUsed & Rent

Description

The history of the Swiss National Park, from its creation in the years before the Great War to the present, is told for the first time in this book. Unlike Yellowstone Park, which embodied close cooperation between state-supported conservation and public recreation, the Swiss park put in place an extraordinarily strong conservation program derived from a close alliance between the state and scientific research. This deliberate reinterpretation of the American idea of the national park was innovative and radical, but its consequences were not limited to Switzerland. The Swiss park became the prime example of a “scientific national park,” thereby influencing the course of national parks worldwide.

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