Resources under Regimes : : Technology, Environment, and the State / / Paul R. Josephson.
Democratic or authoritarian, every society needs clean air and water; every state must manage its wildlife and natural resources. In this provocative, comparative study, Josephson asks to what extent the form of a government and its economy--centrally planned or market, colonial or post-colonial--de...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (277 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Nature, Technology, and Worldview
- 1. The Modern State, Industry, and the Transformation of Nature
- 2. The Coercive Appeal to Order: Authoritarian Approaches to Resource Management
- 3. Development, Colonialism, and the Environment
- 4. Biodiversity, Sustainability, and Technology in the Twenty-first Century
- Notes
- Index