Author: UnescoPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Arid Zone. News about Unesco's Major Project on Scientific Research on Arid Lands
Author: UnescoArid Zone
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Category : Arid regions
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
"Newsletter about Unesco's programme on scientific research relating to natural resources, particularly in arid zones." (varies).
Arid Zone
Author: Arid. Zone
Author: Organisation des nations unies pour l'éduction, la science et la culture (Paris)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Major Project on Scientific Research on Arid Lands
Author: UnescoUnesco's Programme for Arid Lands
Author: UnescoArid Zone
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Category : Arid regions
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
"Newsletter about Unesco's programme on scientific research relating to natural resources, particularly in arid zones." (varies).
Science and the Future of Arid Lands
Author: Gilbert F. WhitePublisher: paris : unesco
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Category : Arid regions
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
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.
The Future of Arid Lands-Revisited
Author: Charles F. HutchinsonPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402066899
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
The Future of Arid Lands, edited by Gilbert White and published in 1956, comprised papers delivered at the "International Arid Lands Meetings" held in New Mexico in 1955. At these meetings, experts considered the major issues then confronting the world’s arid lands and developed a research agenda to address these issues. This book reexamines this earlier work and explores changes in the science and management of arid lands over the past 50 years within their historical contexts.