Cosmopolitan Commons : Sharing Resources and Risks Across Borders

• Autore: Disco Cornelis
• Pubblicazione: Cumberland, : The MIT Press, 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (357 p.)
• Disciplina: 333
• Soggetto topico: Europe -- Economic integration; Infrastructure (Economics) -- Europe; Natural resources -- International cooperation
• Altri autori: KranakisEda
• 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
• Sommario/riassunto: A new approach in commons theory to understand the interactions of technology, society, and nature, supported by case studies of new transnational European commons.
• Titolo autorizzato: Cosmopolitan Commons
• ISBN: 0-262-31333-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910958319403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Infrastructures