Selcer The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment

How the United Nations Built Spaceship Earth
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-231-54823-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

Reihe: Columbia Studies in International and Global History

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 need of governance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Selcer, Perrin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Internationale Organisationen und Institutionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
List of 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

Über Autor(innen)

Selcer Perrin:
Perrin Selcer (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan. He has published articles in Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences, the British Journal for the History of Science, and Current Anthropology.Perrin Selcer is an assistant professor in the History Department and Program in the Environment at the University of Michigan.