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The politics of scale : a history of rangeland science / Nathan F. Sayre.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780226083391
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • SF85 .P655 2017
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Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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