Cosmopolitan commons : sharing resources and risks across borders / / edited by Nil Disco and Eda Kranakis.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Disco, Cornelis.; Kranakis, Eda.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Infrastructures series
• Physical Description: x, 345 p. :; ill., maps.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Nil Disco and Eda Kranakis -- Toward a theory of cosmopolitan commons / Nil Disco and Eda Kranakis -- Part I: Valorizing nature -- The good miracle: building a European airspace commons, 1919-1939 / Eda Kranakis -- Negotiating the radio spectrum: the incessant labor of maintaining space for European broadcasting / Nina Wormbs -- Conflict and cooperation: negotiating a cosmopolitan hydropower commons in the Karelian Isthmus / Kristiina Korjonen-Kuusipuro -- Part II: Protecting humans and nature -- Predicting the weather: an information commons for Europe and the world / Paul N. Edwards -- Breeding Europe: crop diversity, gene banks, and commoners / Tiago Saraiva -- Under a common acid sky: negotiating transboundary air pollution in Europe / Arne Kaijser -- Part III: Putting it all together: temporal layering and iInterlinking of cosmopolitan commons in nature's spaces -- Changing technology, changing commons: freight, fish and oil in the North Sea / Hakon With Andersen -- One touch of nature makes the whole world kin: ships, fish, phenol and the Rhine, 1815-2000 / Nil Disco -- Conclusions / Nil Disco and Eda Kranakis.