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Ecologists and environmental politics:

a history of contemporary ecology
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YALE University Press, 1997 - Science - 271 pages
Ecologists, like other scientists, have for decades debated their role in society. While some have argued that ecologists should participate in environmental politics, others have focused their attention strictly on scientific issues. In this book, Stephen Bocking explores the context of this debate by recounting the history of ecology in Great Britain, the United States, and Canada since the 1940s.

Bocking tells this history through four case studies: the origins and early research of the Nature Conservancy in Great Britain; the development of ecology at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee; the work of the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study in New Hampshire; and research in fisheries ecology at the University of Toronto and the Ontario provincial government in Canada. In each institution, ecologists influenced the development of their discipline, and Bocking explains their work. By comparing these case studies, Bocking demonstrates how the places of contemporary science -- laboratories, landscapes, and funding agencies -- and its purposes, as expressed through the political roles of expertise and specific managerial and regulatory responsibilities, have shaped contemporary ecology and its application to pressing environmental problems.

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About the author (1997)

Stephen Bocking teaches in Environmental and Resource Stu

Stephen Bocking teaches in Environmental and Resource Studies program at Trent University. He has written numerous acdies program at Trent University. He has written numerous academic articles; his book, "Ecologists and Environmental Polademic articles; his book, "Ecologists and Environmental Politics: A History of Contemporary Ecology, "was published by itics: A History of Contemporary Ecology, "was published by Yale University Press in 1997. Yale University Press in 1997.

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TitleEcologists and environmental politics: a history of contemporary ecology
AuthorStephen Bocking
Editionillustrated
PublisherYALE University Press, 1997
ISBN0300067631, 9780300067637
Length271 pages
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