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Academic & Professional Books  Ecology  Ecological Theory & Practice

Spatializing the History of Ecology Sites, Journeys, Mappings

By: Raf de Bont(Editor), Jens Lachmund(Editor)
238 pages, 8 b/w photos, 9 b/w illustrations
Publisher: Routledge
Spatializing the History of Ecology
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About this book

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 opportunities and constraints that structure the agenda and the analytical sensibilities of ecological researchers. On the other hand, ecological knowledge and practices have become important resources through which spaces and places are classified, delineated, explained, experienced and managed. The impact of these activities reaches far beyond the realms of the ecological discipline. Many ecological concepts such as "biotopes", "ecosystems" and "the biosphere" have become entities that widely resonate in public life and policy making.

Spatializing the History of Ecology explores the mutual entanglement between space and knowledge-making in the history of ecology. Its first goal is to explore to which extent a spatial perspective can shed new light on the history of ecological science. Second, it uses ecology as a critical site to gain broader insights into the history of the environment in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Via a series of case studies – discussing topics that range from ecological field stations in the early-twentieth century Caribbean over wisent breeding in Nazi Germany to computer modelling in North American deserts – Spatializing the History of Ecology offers a tour through the changing landscapes of modern ecology.

Contents

1. Introduction: Knowing Nature, Making Space
      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. Life Zones: The Rise and Decline of a Theory of the Geographic Distribution of Species
      Roderick P. 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 Rehabilitation: The West Highland Survey
      Mark Toogood

Part II: Modelling Systems
7. Ecosystem Simulation as a Practice of Emplacement: The Desert Biome Project, 1970-1974
      Etienne S. 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, 1919-1952
      Raf De Bont
10. Islands and Bioregions: Global Reserve Design Models and the Making of National Parks, 1960-2000
      Simone Schleper and Hans Schouwenburg
11. Space, Place, Land, and Sea: The "Ecological Discovery" of the Global Wadden Sea
      Anna-Katharina Wöbse

Epilogue
      Raf De Bont and Jens Lachmund

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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.

By: Raf de Bont(Editor), Jens Lachmund(Editor)
238 pages, 8 b/w photos, 9 b/w illustrations
Publisher: Routledge
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