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1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction. Rangelands, science, and the politics of scale -- Producing the range: extermination and fences -- Fire and climax: bureaucratic divisions of scientific labor -- Squinting at blind spots: Southwestern rangelands and the consolidation of successional theory -- Fixing stocking rates: monitoring and the politics of measurement -- To manage or manipulate: natural versus artificial improvement of depleted rangelands -- The Western range goes global: neo-malthusianism and pastoral development -- Till the cows come home: overseas failures and critiques of range science -- Conclusion. Capital, climate, and community-based conservation. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Rangelands -- United States -- History.
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Rangelands. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Range ecology -- United States.
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Range ecology -- Economic aspects -- United States.
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Range policy -- United States -- History.
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Range policy. |
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Range ecology. |
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Animal Husbandry. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sayre, Nathan Freeman. Politics of scale. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017 9780226083117 022608311X (DLC) 2016033176 (OCoLC)956379474 |
| ISBN |
9780226083391 (electronic book) |
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022608339X (electronic book) |
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9780226083117 |
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022608311X |
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9780226083254 |
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022608325X |
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