Knowing global environments : new historical perspectives on the field sciences /

Knowing global environments : new historical perspectives on the field sciences / edited by Jeremy Vetter. - New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press ©2011 - x, 263 páginas ilustraciones, mapas 24 cm. - Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment . - Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment. .

ACERVO SOBRE SUSTENTABILIDAD Y MEDIO AMBIENTE.

Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.

From the oceans to the mountains : spatial science in an age of empire / Michael S. Reidy -- Emigrants and pioneers : Moritz Wagner's "law of migration" in context / Lynn K. Nyhart -- Negotiating the agricultural frontier in nineteenth-century southern Ohio archaeology / J. Conor Burns -- Managing monocultures : coffee, the coffee rust, and the science of working landscapes / Stuart McCook -- Rocky Mountain high science : teaching, research, and nature at field stations / Jeremy Vetter -- On the trail of the ivory-bill : field science, local knowledge, and the struggle to save endangered species / Mark V. Barrow Jr. -- Playing by and on and under the sea : the importance of play for knowing the ocean / Helen M. Rozwadowski -- Planetary-scale field work : Harry Wexler on the possibilities of ozone depletion and climate control / James Rodger Fleming -- History of field science : trends and prospects / Robert E. Kohler.

978-0-813-54875-3 (encuadernado : papel alcalino)


Ciencia ---Trabajo de campo ---Historia
Cambio global del medio ambiente
Science ---Fieldwork ---History

Q 175 / K567 2011