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The postwar origins of the global environment : how the United Nations built Spaceship Earth
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- Creator
- Perrin Selcer
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 379 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0231166486, 9780231166485, 9780231548236, 0231548230
- OCLC
- on1039210632, on1035462575
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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 : The view from a utopia's ruins
Subjects
- United Nations -- History.
- 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.