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Global History of National Parks

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 Kupper, Patrick

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Carson Fellow Patrick Kupper schreibt eine Geschichte der Nationalparks, mit speziellem Fokus auf den Schweizer Nationalpark. Er erforscht die lokalen Regionen der Parks und stellt sie dann in einen nationalen Vergleich. In der Schweiz ist der Park eine Kombination aus Naturerhaltung und wissenschaftlichem Forschungsprojekt, um den Forschern nicht nur die Natur, sondern auch die Wirkung auf die Menschen näher zu bringen. Carson Fellow Patrick Kupper ist Historiker für Umwelt und Technologie im 19. Und 20. Jahrhundert.
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Carson Fellow Patrick Kupper focuses on the history of the Swiss National Park as a first step towards writing an international history of conservation in national parks. One of the oldest parks in the world, the Swiss National Park fuses two priorities: nature preservation and scientific research. In particular, Kupper researches conflict at both the local and national levels to supplement and connect the biological and social history of the Swiss National Park to the global narrative of national parks. Dr. Kupper is a senior lecturer of modern history, specializing in environmental history and the history of science at the University of Zurich.
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My name is Patrick Kupfer, I'm a Senior Lecturer, Professor for Modern History, in particular Environmental History and History of Science and Technology at ETH Zurich, Switzerland,
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and I'm an Alumnae of Rachel Carson Centre, where I conducted part of my last research project on the global history of national parks. In my research I focus on the history of the Swiss National Park, which I take as a specific local example of a global history of national parks.
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What I try to do there is to write a transnational history of this specific place. This means I write the history, a local history, and try to combine it
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with a national history and with a global history of nature conservation and national parks. The Swiss Park is one of the oldest parks worldwide and especially among the oldest in Europe. It was created in the years before World War I, before 1914, and it was of global importance because it introduced a new model of national parks.
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So we had the American model, which combines nature preservation with outdoor recreation. The Swiss deliberately deviated from this model and instead combined nature preservation with scientific research.
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The founders were scientists and they established this national park to have a large preserve, shielded from human interference, to watch nature unfold without human intervention.
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So it was thought as a large outdoor laboratory or nature's laboratory. National parks and similar protected areas are spaces of conflict in many parts of the world today.
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And to understand these conflicts, to understand these areas, not only in biological terms but also in social terms, we have to research their histories to understand where these conflicts came
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about and how these views and different views on the same landscape developed. So in order to make them more viable landscapes, we have to know better the different stories that are connected to these places.
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So that there can be an understanding of what these areas should be in the future and what they should look like and what needs they should serve.