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UNINA9910821025503321 |
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Autore |
Josephson Paul R |
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Titolo |
Resources under regimes : technology, environment, and the state / / Paul R. Josephson |
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Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2005 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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New histories of science, technology, and medicine |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Technology and state - History - 20th century |
Science and state - History - 20th century |
Environmental policy - History - 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-260) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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--determines how politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, engineers, and industrialists address environmental and social problems presented by the transformation of nature into a humanized landscape. |
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