Celebrated on May 24th, The European Day of Parks is a commemorative day for Protected Areas across Europe that was launched in 1999 by the EUROPARC Federation. National parks are priceless for the European cultural heritage and observance of European Day of Parks is aimed at strengthening of international cooperation in protection of environment. For more information and schedule of events please visit europarc.org.
In recognition of the day Berghahn is pleased to offer 25% discount on any of our Environmental Studies books for a limited time. Visit our webpage and simply enter the code Parks18 at checkout.
Berghahn is happy to present some of its relevant Environmental Studies titles:
In Paperback
BEYOND THE LENS OF CONSERVATION
Malagasy and Swiss Imaginations of One Another
Eva Keller
Volume 20, Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
“This book will make a great addition to undergraduate courses on Anthropology of the Environment and/or Development or Political Ecology. Keller’s highly readable style, in turn, will satisfy both those new to the subject and scholars already familiar with the topics of conservation practice in Madagascar. It could even become an important resource for those conservation experts who are trying – and (as the study shows) failing – to establish connections between distant places and people.” · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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Winner of the Turku Book Prize of the European Society for Environmental History and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society.
CREATING WILDERNESS
A Transnational History of the Swiss National Park
Patrick Kupper
Translated from the German by Giselle Weiss
Volume 4, Environment in History: International Perspectives
“Well tied into the literature of national park studies worldwide, this exquisite book… chronicles the unique Swiss experience in creating and managing a national park in which wilderness was nonexistent… Highly recommended.” · Choice
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CIVILIZING NATURE
National Parks in Global Historical Perspective
Edited by Bernhard Gissibl, Sabine Höhler and Patrick Kupper
Volume 1, Environment in History: International Perspectives
“This book makes a unique contribution to the conservation literature by enhancing one’s understanding and appreciation of the cultural meaning of nature conservation through the lens of national park development. […] Highly recommended.” · Choice
Read Chapter 1. Unpacking Yellowstone: The American National Park in Global Perspective
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FOOTPRINTS IN PARADISE
Ecotourism, Local Knowledge, and Nature Therapies in Okinawa
Andrea E. Murray
Volume 40, New Directions in Anthropology
Footprints in Paradise explores the transformation in community and sense of place as Okinawans come to view themselves through the lens of the visiting tourist consumer, and as their language, landscapes, and wildlife are reconstituted as treasured and vulnerable resources. The rediscovery and revaluing of local ecological knowledge strengthens Okinawan or Uchinaa cultural heritage, despite the controversial presence of US military bases amidst a hegemonic Japanese state.
This edition is supported by Knowledge Unlatched. Full text
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GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY AND COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE
Edited by Carl A. Maida and Sam Beck
Using case-based and theoretical chapters that examine rural and urban communities of practice, this volume illustrates how participatory researchers and students, as well as policy and community leaders, find ways to engage with the broader public when it comes to global sustainability research and practice.
Read Introduction: Towards Global Sustainability and Communities of Practice
CHOREOGRAPHIES OF LANDSCAPE
Signs of Performance in Yosemite National Park
Sally Ann Ness
Volume 8, Dance and Performance Studies
This original and cross-disciplinary book offers an ethnographic and performative study of Yosemite visitors in order to understand human connection with and within natural landscapes. By grounding a novel “eco-semiotic” analysis in the lived reality of parkgoers, it forges surprising connections, assembling a collective account that will be of interest to disciplines ranging from performance studies to cultural geography.
Read Landscape Performance Theory, an Introduction
LIFE AS A HUNT
Thresholds of Identities and Illusions on an African Landscape
Stuart A. Marks
“Few academic books display such depth as does this one, but then few anthropologists devote over five decades to the same communities and issues. Anthropologist Marks first worked among Zambia’s Valley Bisa people in 1966, returning frequently for further research. The result is a masterwork of description, interpretation, and self-reflection.” • Choice
Read Introduction: On Poaching an Elephant: Calling the Shots and Following the Ricochets
HAIRY HIPPIES AND BLOODY BUTCHERS
The Greenpeace Anti-Whaling Campaign in Norway
Juliane Riese
Volume 21, Protest, Culture & Society
This book provides an inside look at Greenpeace’s decades-long campaign against the Norwegian whaling industry. Combining historical narrative with sophisticated systems-theory analysis, it examines the organization’s failure to end Norwegian whaling, providing valuable lessons for other protest movements.
Read Introduction: Observing Greenpeace through the Systems-theoretic Lens
UNDERSTANDING CONFLICTS ABOUT WILDLIFE
A Biosocial Approach
Edited by Catherine M. Hill, Amanda D. Webber and Nancy E. C. Priston
Volume 9, Studies of the Biosocial Society
”This timely volume is a must read for students, academics, researchers, and conservation practitioners and wildlife managers. It not only aims to raise awareness of the human-human conflict dimensions that often underlie or aggravate people-wildlife co-existence, but provides readers with useful approaches in addressing these.” · Tatyana Humle, University of Kent
Other titles in Environment in History: International Perspectives Series:
 Volume 12
MANAGING NORTHERN EUROPE’S FORESTS Histories from the Age of Improvement to the Age of Ecology Edited by K. Jan Oosthoek and Richard Hölzl Read Introduction: State Forestry in Northern Europe Related Link: Exploring Environmental History Podcast |
 Volume 11 Forthcoming in Paperback
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century Edited by Wolfram Kaiser and Jan-Henrik Meyer Read Introduction: International Organizations and Environmental Protection in the Global Twentieth Century |
 Volume 10
Stalin’s Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe Edited by Doubravka Olšáková Read Introduction: The Stalin Plan for the Transformation of Nature and the East European Experience |
Other titles in Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology Series:
 Volume 23 Forthcoming
Integral Ecology, Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainability in Guyana Thomas B. Henfrey
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 Volume 22
Indigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americas Edited by Fausto Sarmiento and Sarah Hitchner Read Introduction |
 Volume 21 In Paperback
Environmental Knowledge in the Northeast Kula Ring Frederick H. Damon Read Introduction Related Link: This book is accompanied by a large online repository of images |
Featured Articles from Berghahn Journals
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Biodiversity Conservation in the Anthropocene?
George Holmes
Tunka National Park: Problems and Prospects
Irina N. Bilichenko
The High Line: An Exhibit Review of New York’s “Park in the Sky”
Tracy Nichols Busch
Urban Park Restoration and the “Museumification” of Nature
Paul H. Gobster
Alaskan Neo-Liberalism Conservation, Development, and Native Land Rights
Sandhya Ganapathy
The Afterlives of Degraded Tropical Forests: New Value for Conservation and Development
Jenny E. Goldstein
Legal Pluralism, Forest Conservation, and Indigenous Capitalists: The Case of the Kalanguya in Tinoc, the Philippines
Adrian Albano, Els van Dongen and Shinya Takeda
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