Knowing global environments
Subtitle: new historical perspectives on the field sciences
By: edited by Jeremy Vetter.
Contributors: Vetter, Jeremy, 1975-
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780813548753
Subjects: Science -- Fieldwork -- History
Description: Knowing Global Environments brings together nine leading scholars whose work spans a variety of environmental and field sciences, including archeology, agriculture, botany, climatology, ecology, evolutionary biology, oceanography, ornithology, and tidology.

Collectively their essays explore the history of the field sciences, through the lens of place, practice, and the production of scientific knowledge, with a wide-ranging perspective extending outwards from the local to regional, national, imperial, and global scales. The book also shows what the history of the field sciences can contribute to environmental history--especially how knowledge in the field sciences has intersected with changing environments--and addresses key present-day problems related to sustainability, such as global climate, biodiversity, oceans, and more.

Contributors reveal how the field sciences have interacted with practical economic activities, such as forestry, agriculture, and tourism, as well as how the public has been involved in the field sciences, as field assistants, students, and local collaborators. --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From the ocean to the mountains : spatial science in an age of empire / Michael S. Reidy; title: Emigrants and pioneers : Moritz Wagner's "law of migration" in context / Lynn Nyhart; title: Negotiating the agricultural frontier in nineteenth century southern Ohio archaeology / J. Conor Burns; title: Managing monocultures : coffee, the coffee rust, and the science of working landscapes / Stuart McCook; title: Rocky Mountain high science : teaching, research, and nature at field stations / Jeremy Vetter; title: On the trail of the ivory-bill : field science, local knowledge, and the struggle to save endangered species / Mark V. Barrow Jr.; title: Playing by and on and under the sea : the importance of play for knowing the ocean / Helen M. Rozwadowski; title: Planetary-scale field work : Harry Wexler on the possibilities of ozone depletion and climate control / James Rodger Fleming; title: History of field science : trends and prospects / Robert E. Kohler.