Author: Perrin Selcer
Publisher: 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 Postwar Origins of the Global Environment
Author: Perrin Selcer
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Soil Survey
Author: J. Alfred Zinck
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251036624
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251036624
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
World Reference Base for Soil Resources, 2006
Author:
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251055113
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
This publication is a revised and updated version of World Soil Resources Reports No. 84, a technical manual for soil scientists and correlators, designed to facilitate the exchange of information and experience related to soil resources, their use and management. The document provides a framework for international soil classification and an agreed common scientific language to enhance communication across disciplines using soil information. It contains definitions and diagnostic criteria to recognize soil horizons, properties and materials and gives rules and guidelines for classifying and subdividing soil reference groups. Published also in Spanish and Arabic.
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251055113
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
This publication is a revised and updated version of World Soil Resources Reports No. 84, a technical manual for soil scientists and correlators, designed to facilitate the exchange of information and experience related to soil resources, their use and management. The document provides a framework for international soil classification and an agreed common scientific language to enhance communication across disciplines using soil information. It contains definitions and diagnostic criteria to recognize soil horizons, properties and materials and gives rules and guidelines for classifying and subdividing soil reference groups. Published also in Spanish and Arabic.
World Soil Resources
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251033944
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251033944
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Bibliography of Soils of the Tropics: Tropics in general and Africa
Author: Arnold Clifford Orvedal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soils
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soils
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Bibliography of Soils of the Tropics: Tropics in general, and islands of Pacific and Indian Ocean
Author: Arnold Clifford Orvedal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soils
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soils
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Global and National Soils and Terrain Digital Databases (SOTER)
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Land and Water Development Division
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251034293
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251034293
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Wetland Soils
Author: International Rice Research Institute
Publisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
ISBN: 9711041391
Category : Hydromorphic soils
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
The Workshop produced recommendations for future research and actions to make the goal of greater crop production from wetland soils a reality.
Publisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
ISBN: 9711041391
Category : Hydromorphic soils
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
The Workshop produced recommendations for future research and actions to make the goal of greater crop production from wetland soils a reality.
Catalogue
Author: Unesco Publishing
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : International agency publications
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : International agency publications
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Data Sets, Indicators and Methods to Assess Land Degradation in Drylands
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251049259
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Includes CD-ROM on inside back cover
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251049259
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Includes CD-ROM on inside back cover