A Latecoming Pioneer: Austria's Hohe Tauern National Park

Authors

  • Patrick Kupper Institute for History and European Ethnology, University of Innsbruck, Austria
  • Anna-Katharina Wöbse Environmental historian

Abstract

Between 1981 and 1992 the Austrian federal states of Carinthia, Salzburg, and Tyrol established the Hohe Tauern National Park as Austria's first national park in the Alpine mountain range of the same name.

Author Biographies

Patrick Kupper, Institute for History and European Ethnology, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Patrick Kupper is Full Professor for Economic and Social History at the University of Innsbruck. His main fields of interest are the history of environment, technology, and knowledge in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He studied history and environmental sciences at the University of Zurich and at Humboldt University Berlin, and received his PhD from the University of Zurich in 2003 and his Habilitation from ETH Zurich in 2011. He has published on the history of conservation, environmentalism, nuclear energy, natural sciences, and higher education.

Anna-Katharina Wöbse, Environmental historian

Anna-Katharina Wöbse is an environmental historian, author, and curator. She has extensively published on media and the environment, human-animal relations, the history of transnational environmental movements, and environmental diplomacy. Currently, she is inter alia involved in a multidisciplinary research project on the history of the World Heritage Site Wadden Sea.

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Published

2014-03-03

Issue

2014

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Articles

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Copyright (c) 2014 CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Patrick Kupper and Anna-Katharina Wöbse