Rarities - Zoe Nyssa

A sweeping study that reveals how conservation science does more than simply protect by inadvertently making nature valuable in new ways.  Climate change and other environmental transformations are causing species to go extinct at accelerating rates. What, then, should a science of saving nature look like? In Rarities, Zoe Nyssa traces how conservation emerged as a distinct scientific endeavor in the United States over the twentieth century and how this history has shaped environmental research... Zobrazit více