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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Introduction: Conserving Global Nature
Chapter 1. Old Hands, Pastures New: IUCN and the New Environmental Age
Chapter 2. Classifying Ecosystems: The International Biological Program, 1964–1974
Chapter 3. Expertise and Diplomacy: Systems Politics at the UN Stockholm Conference, 1972
Chapter 4. Nature’s Value: The Fault Lines in the World Conservation Strategy, 1975–1980
Conclusion: IUCN and Environmental Expertise, 1960s–Present
Appendix: Expert Biographies
Harold Jefferson Coolidge
Edward Max Nicholson
Raymond Dasmann
Gerardo Budowski
Martin Edward Duncan Poore
Maurice Frederick Strong
Bibliography
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