The postwar origins of the global environment : how the United Nations built Spaceship Earth /

Perrin Selcer tells the story of how the United Nations built the international knowledge infrastructure that made the global-scale environment visible. Experts affiliated with UN agencies helped make the "global"--As in global population, global climate, and global economy-an object in ne...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Selcer, Perrin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Colección:Columbia studies in international and global history.
Temas:
United Nations > History.
United Nations
1900-1999
Environmentalism > International cooperation > History > 20th century.
Environmental policy > International cooperation > History > 20th century.
Science > International cooperation > History > 20th century.
Internationalism > History > 20th century.
World politics > 1945-1989.
Environnementalisme > Coopération internationale > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Sciences > Coopération internationale > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Internationalisme > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Politique mondiale > 1945-1989.
HISTORY > World.
Environmental policy > International cooperation
Environmentalism > International cooperation
Internationalism
Science > International cooperation
World politics
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : science, global governance, and the environment
  • Behind the burlap curtain
  • Conserving the world community
  • Men against the desert
  • The soil map of the world and the politics of scale
  • Locating the global environment
  • Spaceship earth in the age of fracture
  • Conclusion : enduring lessons from utopian ruins.

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