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Author:
Selcer, Perrin, author.
Title:
The postwar origins of the global environment : how the United Nations built Spaceship Earth / Perrin Selcer.
Publisher:
Columbia University Press,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
xiv, 379 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject:
United Nations--History.
United Nations.
Environmentalism--History--History--20th century.
Environmental policy--History--History--20th century.
Science--History--History--20th century.
Internationalism--History--20th century.
World politics--1945-1989.
Environmental policy--International cooperation.
Environmentalism--International cooperation.
Internationalism.
Science--International cooperation.
World politics.
1900-1999
History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : science, global governance, and the environment -- Behind the burlap curtain -- Conserving the world community -- Men against the desert -- The soil map of the world and the politics of scale -- Locating the global environment -- Spaceship earth in the age of fracture -- Conclusion : enduring lessons from utopian ruins.
Series:
Columbia studies in international and global history
ISBN:
0231166486
9780231166485
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1035462575
LCCN:
2018009049
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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