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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New histories of science, technology, and medicinePublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004Description: 269 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0674014995
  • 9780674014992
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.28 22
LOC classification:
  • T49.5 .J67 2005
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.
Review: "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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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.

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