The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment : : How the United Nations Built Spaceship Earth / / Perrin Selcer.
In the wake of the Second World War, internationalists identified science as both the cause of and the solution to world crisis. Unless civilization learned to control the unprecedented powers science had unleashed, global catastrophe was imminent. But the internationalists found hope in the idea of...
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Selcer, Perrin, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment : How the United Nations Built Spaceship Earth / Perrin Selcer. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource : 12 b&w illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Columbia Studies in International and Global History Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. Science, Global Governance, And The Environment -- 1. Behind The Burlap Curtain -- 2. Conserving The World Community -- 3. Men Against The Desert -- 4. The Soil Map Of The World And The Politics Of Scale -- 5. Locating The Global Environment -- 6. Spaceship Earth In The Age Of Fracture -- Conclusion. The View From A Utopia'S Ruins -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In the wake of the Second World War, internationalists identified science as both the cause of and the solution to world crisis. Unless civilization learned to control the unprecedented powers science had unleashed, global catastrophe was imminent. But the internationalists found hope in the idea of world government. In The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment, Perrin Selcer argues that the metaphor of "Spaceship Earth"-the idea of the planet as a single interconnected system-exemplifies this moment, when a mix of anxiety and hope inspired visions of world community and the proliferation of international institutions.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 need of governance. Selcer traces how UN programs such as UNESCO's Arid Lands Project, the production of a soil map of the world, and plans for a global environmental-monitoring system fell short of utopian ambitions to cultivate world citizens but did produce an international community of experts with influential connections to national governments. He shows how events and personalities, cultures and ecologies, bureaucracies and ideologies, decolonization and the Cold War interacted to make global knowledge. A major contribution to global history, environmental history, and the history of development, this book relocates the origins of planetary environmentalism in the postwar politics of scale. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022) Environmental policy International cooperation History 20th century. Environmentalism International cooperation History 20th century. Internationalism History 20th century. Science International cooperation History 20th century. World politics 1945-1989. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intergovernmental Organizations. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606607 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English 9783110604252 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 9783110603255 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Economics and Social Sciences 2018 English 9783110604016 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Social Sciences 2018 9783110603231 ZDB-23-DSW print 9780231166485 https://doi.org/10.7312/selc16648 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231548236 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231548236/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. Science, Global Governance, And The Environment -- 1. Behind The Burlap Curtain -- 2. Conserving The World Community -- 3. Men Against The Desert -- 4. The Soil Map Of The World And The Politics Of Scale -- 5. Locating The Global Environment -- 6. Spaceship Earth In The Age Of Fracture -- Conclusion. The View From A Utopia'S Ruins -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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