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The history of the Swiss National Park, from its creation in the years before the Great War to the present, is told for the first time in this book. Unlike Yellowstone Park, which embodied close cooperation between state-supported conservation and public recreation, the Swiss park put in place an extraordinarily strong conservation program derived from a close alliance between the state and scientific research. This deliberate reinterpretation of the American idea of the national park was innovative and radical, but its consequences were not limited to Switzerland. The Swiss park became the prime example of a "scientific national park," thereby influencing the course of national parks worldwide.
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Global Parks: National Parks, Globalization, and Western Modernism
The Myth of Yellowstone
Nature as National Symbol
The Value of "Unspoiled" Nature
The Global Conservation Movement
National Parks and Natural Monuments
The Globalization of the National Park
Chapter 2. National Natures: The Swiss National Park and the Conservationist "Internationale"
"A Beautiful Vision of the Future"
Laying the Foundations
The National Dimension
"Reserve" or "National Park"
National and Global Conservation
Dynamics and Contingencies
Chapter 3. Local Landscapes: Political Spaces, Institutional Arrangements, and Subjective Attitudes
Global, Local
Local Culture and Economy
Fears and Expectations
Area Selection and Initial Leases
Rounding Out and Expanding
Dealing with Conflicts
Institutionalization and Subjectivation
Chapter 4. Total Protection: Philosophy and Practice of "Freely Developing Nature"
"Total Protection" and Intervening in Natural Processes
Humans and Animals
The Role of Park Wardens
Managing Nature
Introducing Animals
Seeking a New Equilibrium
Chapter 5. Ecological "Field Laboratory": The Park as a Scientific Experiment
A New Field within Ecology
Organizing and Financing Research
"A Scientific National Park": International Reception
Changing Research Methods and Practices
Asynchronous Rhythms: Long-Term Observation and University Research
Growing Importance of the National Park as a Field Laboratory?
Chapter 6. Wilderness Limits: Natural Dynamics and Social Equilibrium
A Faustian Bargain with Water Power
Gambling with the National Park
Calling All Nature Lovers
And the Tourists Came
"Recreational Instruction"
Managing Wildlife
Of Hunters and Deer
Shooting in the National Park
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
