Whales & nations : environmental diplomacy on the high seas /

"Before commercial whaling was outlawed in the 1980s, diplomats, scientists, bureaucrats, environmentalists, and sometimes even whalers themselves had attempted to create an international regulatory framework that would allow for a sustainable whaling industry. In Whales and Nations, Kurkpatric...

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Autor principal: Dorsey, Kurkpatrick
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Lenguaje:inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2013]
Colección:Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
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Acceso en línea:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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  • Foreword / by William Cronon
  • A Global Industry and Global Challenges
  • The Pelagic and the Political
  • World War and the World's Whales
  • Cheaters Sometimes Prosper
  • Melting Down and Muddling Through
  • Save the Whales (for Later)
  • The End of Commercial Whaling
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix: Whaling Data, 1904-1965.