The postwar origins of the global environment : how the United Nations built Spaceship Earth /

The postwar origins of the global environment : how the United Nations built Spaceship Earth /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Selcer, Perrin (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Series:Columbia studies in international and global history.
Subjects:
United Nations > History.
1900-1999
Environmentalism > International cooperation > History > 20th century.
Environmental policy > International cooperation > History > 20th century.
Science > International cooperation > History > 20th century.
Internationalism > History > 20th century.
World politics > 1945-1989.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.