1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990000270860203316

Autore

Remoissenet, Michel

Titolo

Waves called solitons : concepts and experiments / M. Remoissenet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin [etc.] : Springer-Verlag, copyr. 1994

ISBN

3-540-57000-4

Descrizione fisica

XIII, 236 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Disciplina

53014

Collocazione

530.14 REM

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778183903321

Autore

Josephson Paul R

Titolo

Resources under regimes [[electronic resource] ] : technology, environment, and the state / / Paul R. Josephson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-674-03924-6

Descrizione fisica

269 p

Collana

New histories of science, technology, and medicine

Classificazione

AR 14300

Disciplina

333.7

Soggetti

Technology and state - History - 20th century

Science and state - History - 20th century

Environmental policy - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-260) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.