During the 1960s and 1970s, rapidly growing environmental awareness and concern created unprecedented demand for ecological expertise and novel challenges for ecological advocacy groups such as the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). This book reveals how, despite their vast scientific knowledge and their attempts to incorporate socially relevant themes, IUCN experts inevitably struggled to make global schemes for nature conservation a central concern for UNESCO, UNEP and other intergovernmental organizations.
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Schleper provides a complex and detailed historical analysis of the leadership styles, sociopolitical views, and scientific debates associated with conservation organizations and activities during the beginnings of the environmental age (196080). Choice
Altogether, Planning for the Planet is a thorough, satisfying book. It provides necessary insights into the difficult choices environmental policy requires. It leaves one feeling conflicted but not exactly disheartened about the future of planetary ecosystem health Schlepers is a clear-eyed, valuable critique that outlines past lessons and, in doing so, with luck, points to effective strategies for protection moving forward. Ecocene
Planning for the Planet is a substantial achievement and provides an indispensable point of reference for researchers who want to address this and other issues of international environmental policy making. By following the work of the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) through its formative period, Schleper provides an important addition to both the history of environmental science and the history of global environmental governance. Isis Journal
Planning for the Planet gives an excellent account of the intricate political relations and negotiations of organizations such as the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. I very much enjoyed reading this book. Sabine Hoehler, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Conserving Global Nature
Chapter
1. Old Hands, Pastures New: IUCN and the New Environmental Age
Chapter
2. Classifying Ecosystems: The International Biological Program,
19641974
Chapter
3. Expertise and Diplomacy: Systems Politics at the UN Stockholm
Conference, 1972
Chapter
4. Natures Value: The Fault Lines in the World Conservation
Strategy, 19751980
Conclusion: IUCN and Environmental Expertise, 1960sPresent
Appendix: Expert Biographies
Harold Jefferson Coolidge
Edward Max Nicholson
Raymond Dasmann
Gerardo Budowski
Martin Edward Duncan Poore
Maurice Frederick Strong
Bibliography
Index
Simone Schleper works at Maastricht University, where she also obtained her doctorate. She held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz in 2018 and a visiting research fellowship at the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University in 2014.
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