Artikel ; Online: Valuing Shorebirds: Bureaucracy, Natural History, and Expertise in North American Conservation.
Journal of the history of biology
2020 Band 53, Heft 4, Seite(n) 631–652
Abstract: This article follows shorebirds-migratory animals that have gone from game to nongame animals over the course of the past century in North America-as a way to track modern field biology, bureaucratic institutions, and the valuation of wildlife. Doing so ... ...
| Abstract | This article follows shorebirds-migratory animals that have gone from game to nongame animals over the course of the past century in North America-as a way to track modern field biology, bureaucratic institutions, and the valuation of wildlife. Doing so allows me to make interrelated arguments about the history of wildlife management and science. The first is to note the endurance of observation-based natural history methods in field biology over the long twentieth century and the importance of these methods for the persistent contribution of amateurs. The second major line of argument advances the historical significance of scientific, government bureaucracies as sites of natural knowledge production. Historians of biology and ecology have tended to stress scientists with institutional homes in universities, museums, and at land-grant field stations-particularly as various forms of field biology became professionalized over the twentieth century. In contrast, migratory animals like shorebirds, whether under the auspices of the US Biological Survey or the contemporary Fish and Wildlife Service, were primarily studied and conserved by biologists in bureaucratic agencies. Mid- to low-level bureaucrats, along with avocational birders, have mainly been responsible for developing what we know about shorebird migration, behavior, and life history. And third, shorebirds foreground the importance of bureaucratic context for the valuation of nature, from their economic value to agriculture in the early twentieth century to their value as rare, endangered species in the twentyfirst. |
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| Sprache | Englisch |
| Erscheinungsdatum | 2020-09-16 |
| Erscheinungsland | Germany |
| Dokumenttyp | Journal Article |
| ZDB-ID | 6925-5 |
| ISSN | 1573-0387 ; 0022-5010 |
| ISSN (online) | 1573-0387 |
| ISSN | 0022-5010 |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10739-020-09616-3 |
| Datenquelle | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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