Whales & nations : : environmental diplomacy on the high seas / / Kurkpatrick Dorsey.
"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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| Superior document: | Weyerhaeuser environmental books |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Seattle : : University of Washington Press,, [2013] 2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (391 pages) :; map. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.