The politics of scale : a history of rangeland science

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780226083254
ISBN: 9780226083117
ISBN: 022608325X
ISBN: 022608311X
ISBN: 9780226083391
ISBN: 022608339X
Physical Description: 1 online resource : illustrations, maps
remote
Computer data.
Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Copyright: �2017

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString.july.23 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by EBSCO.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 27, 2017).