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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792003503321

Autore

Disco Nil

Titolo

Cosmopolitan Commons [[electronic resource] ] : Sharing Resources and Risks Across Borders

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cumberland, : The MIT Press, 2013

ISBN

0-262-31333-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 p.)

Collana

Infrastructures

Altri autori (Persone)

KranakisEda

Disciplina

333

Soggetti

Europe -- Economic integration

Infrastructure (Economics) -- Europe

Natural resources -- International cooperation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Infrastructures Series; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Toward a Theory of Cosmopolitan Commons; I Valorizing Nature; 3 The "Good Miracle": Building a European Airspace Commons, 1919-1939; 4 Negotiating the Radio Spectrum: The Incessant Labor of Maintaining Space for European Broadcasting; 5 Conflict and Cooperation: Negotiating a Transnational Hydropower Commons on the Karelian Isthmus; II Protecting Humans and Nature; 6 Predicting the Weather: An Information Commons for Europe and the World; 7 Breeding Europe: Crop Diversity, Gene Banks, and Commoners

8 Under a Common Acid Sky: Negotiating Transboundary Air Pollution in EuropeIII Temporal Layering and Interlinking of Cosmopolitan Commons in Nature's Spaces; 9 Changing Technology, Changing Commons: Freight, Fish, and Oil in the North Sea; 10 "One Touch of Nature Makes the Whole World Kin": Ships, Fish, Phenol, and the Rhine, 1815-2000; 11 Conclusions; Index