Description: Further DetailsTitle: Whales and NationsCondition: NewSubtitle: Environmental Diplomacy on the High SeasISBN-10: 0295995599EAN: 9780295995595ISBN: 9780295995595Publisher: University of Washington PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/01/2016Description: Before commercial whaling was outlawed in the 1980s, diplomats, scientists, bureaucrats, environmentalists, and sometimes even whalers themselves had attempted to create an international regulatory framework that would allow for a sustainable whaling industry. In Whales and Nations, Kurkpatrick Dorsey tells the story of the international negotiation, scientific research, and industrial development behind these efforts —and their ultimate failure.Whales and Nations begins in the early twentieth century, when new technology revived the fading whaling industry and made whale hunting possible on an unprecedented scale. By the 1920s, declining whale populations prompted efforts to develop “rational”—what today would be called sustainable—whaling practices. But even though almost everyone involved with commercial whaling knew that the industry was on an unsustainable path, Dorsey argues, powerful economic, political, and scientific forces made failure nearly inevitable.Based on a deep engagement with diplomatic history, Whales and Nations provides a unique perspective on the challenges facing international conservation projects. This history has profound implications for today’s pressing questions of global environmental cooperation and sustainability.Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QsLlM5KTx0Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 476gAuthor: Kurkpatrick DorseyContributor: William Cronon (Foreword by)Genre: Technology & EngineeringBook Series: Whales and NationsTopic: Science Nature & MathRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Whales and Nations
Title: Whales and Nations
Subtitle: Environmental Diplomacy on the High Seas
ISBN-10: 0295995599
EAN: 9780295995595
ISBN: 9780295995595
Release Date: 03/01/2016
Release Year: 2016
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: William Cronon (Foreword by)
Genre: Technology & Engineering
Topic: Science Nature & Math
Number of Pages: 392 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Whales and Nations : Environmental Diplomacy on the High Seas
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication Year: 2016
Subject: Labor & Industrial Relations, Intergovernmental Organizations, Environmental, Animals / Marine Life, Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Fisheries & Aquaculture, International Relations / Diplomacy
Item Height: 0.9 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16.8 Oz
Subject Area: Nature, Law, Political Science, Technology & Engineering
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Kurkpatrick Dorsey
Item Width: 5.9 in
Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Bks.
Format: Trade Paperback
