Dr. Emily Wakild has recently published her new book, A Moderating Force: Conserving Nature in National Parks in Patagonia and Amazonia, with Oxford University Press.
From the author: “The book starts with a simple premise. Over the past century, landscapes across South American fundamentally changed. As forests were felled, cities and highways built, and agricultural land was managed, national governments set aside protected landscapes in certain charismatic places to mitigate change. A Moderating Force, relates a transnational comparative history of two paradigmatic regions-the temperate southern third of South America known as Patagonia and the tropical expanse known as Amazonia. The book traces the development of national parks in Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Brazil from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, explaining the historical processes that led to nature conservation at the national level. This wide-ranging study sheds new light on exploration, state-making, scientific practice, economic development, and nature conservation in the past to inform what this history means for our shared future.”
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