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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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Columbia Studies in International and Global History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 12 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- 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