Whales & nations : environmental diplomacy on the high seas / Kurkpatrick Dorsey.
Whales & nations : environmental diplomacy on the high seas / Kurkpatrick Dorsey.
Whales & nations : environmental diplomacy on the high seas / Kurkpatrick Dorsey.
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Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2013]
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G 2014/4048
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English
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Physical content
xxii, 365 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
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: Wha...
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Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2013]
Place of Publication
Washington (State)
Date Published
[2013]
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"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, Kurkpatrick Dorsey tells the story of the international negotiati...
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Whales & nations : environmental diplomacy on the high seas / Kurkpatrick Dorsey.
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Weyerhaeuser environmental books.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2014/4048
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74VKv5eGg5GO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKv5eGg5GO
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ISBN
0295993111 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
9780295993119 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
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338.3/7295
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991021718359702626
