Nature of the miracle years : conservation in West Germany, 1945-1975 /

After 1945, those responsible for conservation in Germany resumed their work with a relatively high degree of continuity as far as laws and personnel were concerned. Yet conservationists soon found they had little choice but to modernize their views and practices in the challenging postwar context....

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Main Author: Chaney, Sandra
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.
Series:Studies in German history ; v. 8.
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Table of Contents:
  • The inheritance: a mixed legacy for postwar conservation
  • Defending nature under the Allied Occupation, 1945-1955
  • Preserving the Wutach Gorge in the 1950s
  • Ordering landscapes and living space in the miracle years, 1956-1966
  • Landscaping the Mosel Canal, 1956-1964
  • Inventing the environment and rediscovering nature, 1967-1975
  • Designing the Bavarian Forest National Park, 1966-1975.