دانلود کتاب The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment: How the United Nations Built Spaceship Earth
by Perrin Selcer
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عنوان فارسی: پس از جنگ ریشه های جهانی محیط زیست: چگونه سازمان ملل متحد ساخته شده سفینه فضایی زمین |
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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.