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Resources under regimes : technology, environment, and the state /
Democratic or authoritarian, every society needs clean air and water; every state must manage its wildlife and natural resources. In this provocative, comparative study, Josephson asks to what extent the form of a government and its economy--centrally planned or market, colonial or post-colonial--de...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | New histories of science, technology, and medicine.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Democratic or authoritarian, every society needs clean air and water; every state must manage its wildlife and natural resources. In this provocative, comparative study, Josephson asks to what extent the form of a government and its economy--centrally planned or market, colonial or post-colonial--determines how politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, engineers, and industrialists address environmental and social problems presented by the transformation of nature into a humanized landscape. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (269 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780674039247 0674039246 0674022432 9780674022430 9780674014992 0674014995 |