| Description |
1 online resource (269 pages) |
| Series |
New histories of science, technology, and medicine |
|
New histories of science, technology, and medicine.
|
| Contents |
Introduction: Nature, technology, and worldview -- The modern state, industry, and the transformation of nature -- The coercive appeal to order: authoritarian approaches to resource management -- Development, colonialism, and the environment -- Biodiversity, sustainability, and technology in the twenty-first century |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
|
Print version record |
| Subject |
Technology and state -- History -- 20th century
|
|
Science and state -- History -- 20th century
|
|
Environmental policy -- History -- 20th century
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
|
|
SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
|
|
Environmental policy
|
|
Science and state
|
|
Technology and state
|
|
Poluição ambiental -- Século 20.
|
|
Política ambiental.
|
|
Recursos naturais (exploração;aspectos sociais)
|
| Genre/Form |
History
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9780674039247 |
|
0674039246 |
|
0674022432 |
|
9780674022430 |
|
9780674014992 |
|
0674014995 |
|
