Resources under regimes : technology, environment, and the state /
Josephson, Paul R.,
Resources under regimes : technology, environment, and the state / Paul R. Josephson. - 269 pages ; 22 cm. - New histories of science, technology, and medicine . - New histories of science, technology, and medicine. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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. 1. 2. 3. 4.
"In this provocative comparative study, Paul R. Josephson asks to what extent the form of a government - colonial or postcolonial - and of its economy - centrally planned or market - determines how politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, engineers, and industrialists address environmental and social problems presented by the human transformation of nature into an inhabited landscape." "In examining the experiences of the industrialized and industrializing world, Resources under Regimes explores the interrelationship of science, technology, and the environment. Josephson considers global responses to deforestation, water pollution, and global warming, to show how different societies bring different values and assumptions to bear on the same problem and arrive at different conclusions about the ideal outcome and the best way of achieving it."--BOOK JACKET.
0674014995 9780674014992
2004051132
Technology and state--History--20th century.
Science and state--History--20th century.
Environmental policy--History--20th century.
T49.5 / .J67 2005
304.28
Resources under regimes : technology, environment, and the state / Paul R. Josephson. - 269 pages ; 22 cm. - New histories of science, technology, and medicine . - New histories of science, technology, and medicine. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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. 1. 2. 3. 4.
"In this provocative comparative study, Paul R. Josephson asks to what extent the form of a government - colonial or postcolonial - and of its economy - centrally planned or market - determines how politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, engineers, and industrialists address environmental and social problems presented by the human transformation of nature into an inhabited landscape." "In examining the experiences of the industrialized and industrializing world, Resources under Regimes explores the interrelationship of science, technology, and the environment. Josephson considers global responses to deforestation, water pollution, and global warming, to show how different societies bring different values and assumptions to bear on the same problem and arrive at different conclusions about the ideal outcome and the best way of achieving it."--BOOK JACKET.
0674014995 9780674014992
2004051132
Technology and state--History--20th century.
Science and state--History--20th century.
Environmental policy--History--20th century.
T49.5 / .J67 2005
304.28