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Managing the unknown : essays on environmental ignorance /
Information is crucial when it comes to the management of resources. But what if knowledge is incomplete, or biased, or otherwise deficient? How did people define patterns of proper use in the absence of cognitive certainty? Discussing this challenge for a diverse set of resources from fish to rubbe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Berghahn Books,
2014.
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| Colección: | Environment in History: International Perspectives.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements <a href="/downloads/intros/UekotterManaging_intro.pdf" target="_blank"><img align="left" border="0" onmouseout="this.src='/img/icon_pdf.png'" onmouseover="this.src='/img/icon_pdf2.png'" src="/img/icon_pdf.png" Introduction: The Social Functions of Ignorance; Frank Uekötter and Uwe Lübken Chapter 1. Guayule Fever. Los Knowledge and Struggles for a Natural Rubber Reserve in the American West; Mark R. Finlay Chapter 2. Thinking in Cycles. Flows of Nitrogen and Sustainable Uses of the Environment; Hugh S. Gorman Chapter 3. The Forests of Canada. Seeing the Forests for the Trees; Susan Herrington Chapter 4. Forest Law in the Palestine Mandate. Colonial Conservation in a Unique Context; David Schorr Chapter 5. Perception and Use of Marine Biological Resources under National Socialist Autarky Policy; Ole Sparenberg Chapter 6. Ignorance is Strength. Science-based Agriculture and the Merits of Incomplete Knowledge; Frank Uekötter Chapter 7. Expert Estimates of Oil-Reserves and the Transformation of "Petroknowledge" in the Western World from the 1950s to the 1970s; Rüdiger Graf Chapter 8. Reducing Uncertainty with Scenarios?; Cornelia Altenburg List of Contributors; Select Bibliography.