The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment : How the United Nations Built Spaceship Earth /

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In the wake of the Second World War, internationalists identified science as both the cause of and the solution to world crisis. Unless civilization learned to control the unprecedented powers science had unleashed, global catastrophe was imminent. But the internationalists found hope in the idea of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Selcer, Perrin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Colección:Columbia Studies in International and Global History
Temas:
Environmental policy > International cooperation > History > 20th century.
Environmentalism > International cooperation > History > 20th century.
Internationalism > History > 20th century.
Science > International cooperation > History > 20th century.
World politics > 1945-1989.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intergovernmental Organizations.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction. Science, Global Governance, And The Environment
  • 1. Behind The Burlap Curtain
  • 2. Conserving The World Community
  • 3. Men Against The Desert
  • 4. The Soil Map Of The World And The Politics Of Scale
  • 5. Locating The Global Environment
  • 6. Spaceship Earth In The Age Of Fracture
  • Conclusion. The View From A Utopia'S Ruins
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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