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Category : Forest conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Proceedings of the United Nations Scientific Conference on the Conservation and Utilization of Resources, 17 August-6 September 1949, Lake Success, New York: Plenary meetings
Author: Environmental History in the Making
Author: Cristina Joanaz de MeloPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 331941139X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This book is the product of the 2nd World Conference on Environmental History, held in Guimarães, Portugal, in 2014. It gathers works by authors from the five continents, addressing concerns raised by past events so as to provide information to help manage the present and the future. It reveals how our cultural background and examples of past territorial intervention can help to combat political and cultural limitations through the common language of environmental benefits without disguising harmful past human interventions. Considering that political ideologies such as socialism and capitalism, as well as religion, fail to offer global paradigms for common ground, an environmentally positive discourse instead of an ecological determinism might serve as an umbrella common language to overcome blocking factors, real or invented, and avoid repeating ecological loss. Therefore, agency, environmental speech and historical research are urgently needed in order to sustain environmental paradigms and overcome political, cultural an economic interests in the public arena. This book intertwines reflections on our bonds with landscapes, processes of natural and scientific transfer across the globe, the changing of ecosystems, the way in which scientific knowledge has historically both accelerated destruction and allowed a better distribution of vital resources or as it, in today’s world, can offer alternatives that avoid harming those same vital natural resources: water, soil and air. In addition, it shows the relevance of cultural factors both in the taming of nature in favor of human comfort and in the role of the environment matters in the forging of cultural identities, which cannot be detached from technical intervention in the world. In short, the book firstly studies the past, approaching it as a data set of how the environment has shaped culture, secondly seeks to understand the present, and thirdly assesses future perspectives: what to keep, what to change, and what to dream anew, considering that conventional solutions have not sufficed to protect life on our planet.
Proceedings of the United Nations Scientific Conference on the Conservation and Utilization of Resources, 17 August - 6 September, 1949, Lake Success, New York: Plenary meetings
Author: Proceedings of the United Nations Scientific Conference on the Conservation and Utilization of Resources, 17 August - 6 September, 1949, Lake Success, New York: Index
Author: Proceedings of the United Nations Scientific Conference on the Conservation and Utilization of Resources, 17 August-6 September 1949, Lake Success, New York
Author: Carter GoodrichPublisher:
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Category : Agricultural conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Proceedings of the United Nations Scientific Conference on the Conservation and Utilization of Resources, 17 August - 6 September, 1949, Lake Success, New York
Author: The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment
Author: Perrin SelcerPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231548230
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
In the wake of the Second World War, internationalists identified science as both the cause of and the solution to world crisis. Unless civilization learned to control the unprecedented powers science had unleashed, global catastrophe was imminent. But the internationalists found hope in the idea of world government. In The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment, Perrin Selcer argues that the metaphor of “Spaceship Earth”—the idea of the planet as a single interconnected system—exemplifies this moment, when a mix of anxiety and hope inspired visions of world community and the proliferation of international institutions. Selcer tells the story of how the United Nations built the international knowledge infrastructure that made the global-scale environment visible. Experts affiliated with UN agencies helped make the “global”—as in global population, global climate, and global economy—an object in need of governance. Selcer traces how UN programs such as UNESCO’s Arid Lands Project, the production of a soil map of the world, and plans for a global environmental-monitoring system fell short of utopian ambitions to cultivate world citizens but did produce an international community of experts with influential connections to national governments. He shows how events and personalities, cultures and ecologies, bureaucracies and ideologies, decolonization and the Cold War interacted to make global knowledge. A major contribution to global history, environmental history, and the history of development, this book relocates the origins of planetary environmentalism in the postwar politics of scale.
Proceedings of the United Nations Scientific Conference on the Conservation and Utilization of Resources, 17 August-6 September 1949, Lake Success, New York: Land resources
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Category : Agricultural conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Proceedings of the United Nations Scientific Conference on the Conservation and Utilization of Resources, 17 August-6 September 1949, Lake Success, New York: Forest resources
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Category : Agricultural conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Proceedings of the United Nations Scientific Conference on the Conservation and Utilization of Resources, 17 August-6 September 1949, Lake Success, New York: Wildlife and fish resources
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Category : Agricultural conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description