TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kupper,Patrick
TI  - Creating Wilderness: A Transnational History of the Swiss National Park 
T2  - Environment in History: International Perspectives
SN  - 9781782383734
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Nature conservation
KW  - Switzerland
KW  - History
KW  - HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - History: 20th Century to Present, Environmental Studies (General)
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; CHAPTER 1 Global Parks: National Parks, Globalization, and Western Modernism --; CHAPTER 2 National Natures: The Swiss National Park and the Conservationist Internationale --; CHAPTER 3 Local Landscapes: Political Spaces, Institutional Arrangements, and Subjective Attitudes --; CHAPTER 4 Total Protection: Philosophy and Practice of Freely Developing Nature --; CHAPTER 5 Ecological Field Laboratory: The Park as a Scientific Experiment --; CHAPTER 6 Wilderness Limits: Natural Dynamics and Social Equilibrium --; CONCLUSION Creating Wilderness --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - The history of the Swiss National Park, from its creation in the years before the Great War to the present, is told for the first time in this book. Unlike Yellowstone Park, which embodied close cooperation between state-supported conservation and public recreation, the Swiss park put in place an extraordinarily strong conservation program derived from a close alliance between the state and scientific research. This deliberate reinterpretation of the American idea of the national park was innovative and radical, but its consequences were not limited to Switzerland. The Swiss park became the prime example of a “scientific national park,” thereby influencing the course of national parks worldwide
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782383741?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782383741
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781782383741/original
ER  -