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The Politics of Scale. A History of Rangeland Science.
Nathan F. Sayre
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 halftones, 10 line drawings, 2 tables. BIC Classification: RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
Rangelands are vast, making up one quarter of the United States and forty percent 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 first history of rangeland science looks to the origins of rangeland ecology in the late nineteenth-century American west, exploring the larger political and economic forces that together with scientific study produced legacies focused ... Read more
Rangelands are vast, making up one quarter of the United States and forty percent 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 first history of rangeland science looks to the origins of rangeland ecology in the late nineteenth-century American west, exploring the larger political and economic forces that together with scientific study produced legacies focused ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226083117
SKU
V9780226083117
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About Nathan F. Sayre
Nathan F. Sayre is professor and chair of geography at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author, most recently, of Working Wilderness: The Malpai Borderlands Group and the Future of the Western Range. He lives in Berkeley, CA.
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