Producing Biodiversity: A History of Science in Australia's Desert Lands

生物多样性保护被大多数人认为是可取的，但其历史和文化方面的了解甚少。这不仅仅是对动物和植物的科学理解，也是一个实践和谈判的问题。人和地方通过保护而改变，这些变化反过来又塑造了自然的想象和管理方式。《生产生物多样性》记录了澳大利亚沙漠边缘六个非常不同的牧场的生物多样性管理的历史和当代举措。我们提供了一个长期的观点，在不同的时代国家和地方保护的必要性，并探讨他们如何影响牧民，原住民和科学界。

Biodiversity conservation is regarded by most people as desirable, but its historical and cultural aspects are poorly understood. It is not just about scientific understanding of animals and plants, but also a matter of practice and negotiation. People and places are changed through conservation and these changes in turn shape the ways nature is imagined and managed. Producing Biodiversity documents historical and contemporary initiatives in biodiversity management on six very different pastoral properties on the margins of the Australian desert. We provide a long-term perspective on national and local conservation imperatives in different eras, and explore how they affect pastoral, Aboriginal and scientific communities.