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Managing the unknown : essays on environmental ignorance / edited by Frank Uekotter and Uwe Lubken.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Environment in history ; v. 3.
- Environment in History: International Perspectives ; Volume 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental policy.
- Environmental management.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Information is crucial when it comes to the management of resources. But what if knowledge is incomplete, or biased, or otherwise deficient? How did people define patterns of proper use in the absence of cognitive certainty? Discussing this challenge for a diverse set of resources from fish to rubber, these essays show that deficient knowledge is a far more pervasive challenge in resource history than conventional readings suggest. Furthermore, environmental ignorance does not inevitably shrink with the march of scientific progress: these essays suggest more of a dialectical relationship be
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Selected Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-80758-681-2
- 1-78238-253-4
- OCLC:
- 870946235
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