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The politics of scale : a history of rangeland science
Title
The politics of scale : a history of rangeland science / Nathan F. Sayre.
ISBN
9780226083391 (ePub ebook) :
Publication
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Previously issued in print: 2017.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 17, 2017).
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Summary
Rangelands are vast, making up one quarter of the United States and 40% of the Earth's ice-free land. And while contemporary science has revealed a great deal about the environmental impacts associated with intensive livestock production - from greenhouse gas emissions to land and water degradation - far less is known about the historic role science has played in rangeland management and politics. Steeped in US soil, this history of rangeland science looks to the origins of rangeland ecology in the late 19th-century American West, exploring the larger political and economic forces that - together with scientific study - produced legacies focused on immediate economic success rather than long-term ecological well being.
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Chicago scholarship online.
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Print version :
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 03, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience
Specialized.
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