Managing the Unknown
Essays on Environmental Ignorance
Herausgeber: Uekötter, Frank; Lübken, Uwe
Managing the Unknown
Essays on Environmental Ignorance
Herausgeber: Uekötter, Frank; Lübken, Uwe
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Argues that deficient knowledge of the environment is a far more pervasive challenge in resource history than conventional readings suggest Makes significant contribution to the inter-disciplinary debate about the production and resilience of ignorance Combines insights from different continents, sketching outlines of an emerging global resource history
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Argues that deficient knowledge of the environment is a far more pervasive challenge in resource history than conventional readings suggest Makes significant contribution to the inter-disciplinary debate about the production and resilience of ignorance Combines insights from different continents, sketching outlines of an emerging global resource history
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- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Seitenzahl: 210
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2016
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
- Gewicht: 312g
- ISBN-13: 9781785332074
- ISBN-10: 1785332074
- Artikelnr.: 44397544
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Seitenzahl: 210
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2016
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
- Gewicht: 312g
- ISBN-13: 9781785332074
- ISBN-10: 1785332074
- Artikelnr.: 44397544
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
Uwe Lübken joined the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in 2009 and currently serves as director of the project "Disaster Migration in a Historical Perspective". His habilitation thesis on flooding of the Ohio River was published in 2014. His most recent publications include, as an editor, two special issues of the journal Global Environment on Environmental Change and Migration in History (9/2012) and on Small Islands and Natural Hazards ( 8 (1/2015, New Series ), and, together with Greg Bankoff and Jordan Sand, Flammable Cities: Urban Conflagration and the Making of the Modern World (2012).
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Social Functions of Ignorance
Frank Uekötter and Uwe Lübken
Chapter 1. Guayule Fever. Los Knowledge and Struggles for a Natural Rubber
Reserve in the American West
Mark R. Finlay
Chapter 2. Thinking in Cycles. Flows of Nitrogen and Sustainable Uses of
the Environment
Hugh S. Gorman
Chapter 3. The Forests of Canada. Seeing the Forests for the Trees
Susan Herrington
Chapter 4. Forest Law in the Palestine Mandate. Colonial Conservation in a
Unique Context
David Schorr
Chapter 5. Perception and Use of Marine Biological Resources under National
Socialist Autarky Policy
Ole Sparenberg
Chapter 6. Ignorance is Strength. Science-based Agriculture and the Merits
of Incomplete Knowledge
Frank Uekötter
Chapter 7. Expert Estimates of Oil-Reserves and the Transformation of
"Petroknowledge" in the Western World from the 1950s to the 1970s
Rüdiger Graf
Chapter 8. Reducing Uncertainty with Scenarios?
Cornelia Altenburg
List of Contributors
Select Bibliography
Introduction: The Social Functions of Ignorance
Frank Uekötter and Uwe Lübken
Chapter 1. Guayule Fever. Los Knowledge and Struggles for a Natural Rubber
Reserve in the American West
Mark R. Finlay
Chapter 2. Thinking in Cycles. Flows of Nitrogen and Sustainable Uses of
the Environment
Hugh S. Gorman
Chapter 3. The Forests of Canada. Seeing the Forests for the Trees
Susan Herrington
Chapter 4. Forest Law in the Palestine Mandate. Colonial Conservation in a
Unique Context
David Schorr
Chapter 5. Perception and Use of Marine Biological Resources under National
Socialist Autarky Policy
Ole Sparenberg
Chapter 6. Ignorance is Strength. Science-based Agriculture and the Merits
of Incomplete Knowledge
Frank Uekötter
Chapter 7. Expert Estimates of Oil-Reserves and the Transformation of
"Petroknowledge" in the Western World from the 1950s to the 1970s
Rüdiger Graf
Chapter 8. Reducing Uncertainty with Scenarios?
Cornelia Altenburg
List of Contributors
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Social Functions of Ignorance
Frank Uekötter and Uwe Lübken
Chapter 1. Guayule Fever. Los Knowledge and Struggles for a Natural Rubber
Reserve in the American West
Mark R. Finlay
Chapter 2. Thinking in Cycles. Flows of Nitrogen and Sustainable Uses of
the Environment
Hugh S. Gorman
Chapter 3. The Forests of Canada. Seeing the Forests for the Trees
Susan Herrington
Chapter 4. Forest Law in the Palestine Mandate. Colonial Conservation in a
Unique Context
David Schorr
Chapter 5. Perception and Use of Marine Biological Resources under National
Socialist Autarky Policy
Ole Sparenberg
Chapter 6. Ignorance is Strength. Science-based Agriculture and the Merits
of Incomplete Knowledge
Frank Uekötter
Chapter 7. Expert Estimates of Oil-Reserves and the Transformation of
"Petroknowledge" in the Western World from the 1950s to the 1970s
Rüdiger Graf
Chapter 8. Reducing Uncertainty with Scenarios?
Cornelia Altenburg
List of Contributors
Select Bibliography
Introduction: The Social Functions of Ignorance
Frank Uekötter and Uwe Lübken
Chapter 1. Guayule Fever. Los Knowledge and Struggles for a Natural Rubber
Reserve in the American West
Mark R. Finlay
Chapter 2. Thinking in Cycles. Flows of Nitrogen and Sustainable Uses of
the Environment
Hugh S. Gorman
Chapter 3. The Forests of Canada. Seeing the Forests for the Trees
Susan Herrington
Chapter 4. Forest Law in the Palestine Mandate. Colonial Conservation in a
Unique Context
David Schorr
Chapter 5. Perception and Use of Marine Biological Resources under National
Socialist Autarky Policy
Ole Sparenberg
Chapter 6. Ignorance is Strength. Science-based Agriculture and the Merits
of Incomplete Knowledge
Frank Uekötter
Chapter 7. Expert Estimates of Oil-Reserves and the Transformation of
"Petroknowledge" in the Western World from the 1950s to the 1970s
Rüdiger Graf
Chapter 8. Reducing Uncertainty with Scenarios?
Cornelia Altenburg
List of Contributors
Select Bibliography







