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

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 nee...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Selcer, Perrin (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Series:Columbia studies in international and global history.
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