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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505 | 0 | |a 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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