Resources under regimes : technology, environment, and the state / Paul R. Josephson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Josephson, Paul R.

Series:

New histories of science, technology, and medicine.

New histories of science, technology, and medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology and state--History--20th century.

Technology and state.

Science and state--History--20th century.

Science and state.

Environmental policy--History--20th century.

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

269 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

9780674039247

0674039246

OCLC:

1013940146