Book Review: Simone Schleper s Planning for the Planet: Environmental Expertise and the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1960-1980

Abstract

"During the 1960s and 1970s, rapidly growing environmental awareness and concern created unprecedented demand for ecological expertise and novel challenges for ecological advocacy groups such as the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). This book reveals how, despite their vast scientific knowledge and their attempts to incorporate socially relevant themes, IUCN experts inevitably struggled to make global schemes for nature conservation a central concern for UNESCO, UNEP and other intergovernmental organizations"-- Old hands, pastures new: IUCN and the new environmental age -- Classifying ecosystems: The International Biological Program, 1964-1974 -- Expertise and diplomacy: systems politics at the UN Stockholm Conference, 1972 -- Nature's value: The fault lines behind the World Conservation Strategy, 1975-1980.