Resources under regimes : technology, environment, and the state / Paul R. Josephson.
Resources under regimes : technology, environment, and the state / Paul R. Josephson.
Resources under regimes : technology, environment, and the state / Paul R. Josephson.
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Cambridge, Ma : Harvard University Press, 2005.
Date
2005.
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N304.28/ 49
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English
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269 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents
Introduction : nature, technology, and worldview -- 1. The modern state, industry, and the transformation of nature -- 2. The coercive appeal to order : authoritarian approaches to resource management -- 3. Development, colonialism, and the environment -- 4. Biodiversity, sustainability, and technol...
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Cambridge, Ma : Harvard University Press, 2005.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2005.
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"In this provocative comparative study, Paul R. Josephson asks to what extent the form of a government - colonial or postcolonial - and of its economy - centrally planned or market - determines how politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, engineers, and industrialists address environmental and social problems presented by the human transformation of n...
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Resources under regimes : technology, environment, and the state / Paul R. Josephson.
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New histories of science, technology, and medicine.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N304.28/ 49
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74VKqJv5Prdl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKqJv5Prdl
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0674014995 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780674014992 (alk. paper)
0674014995 (alk. paper)
9780674014992 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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304.28
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991020218669702626
