Broschiertes Buch

Managing the Unknown

Essays on Environmental Ignorance

Herausgeber: Uekötter, Frank; Lübken, Uwe

Beschreibung

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

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• 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