Managing the Unknown
Essays on Environmental Ignorance
Information is crucial when it comes to the management of resources. But what if knowledge is incomplete, or biased, or otherwise deficient? How did people define patterns of proper use in the absence of cognitive certainty? Discussing this challenge for a diverse set of resources from fish to rubber, these essays show that deficient knowledge is a far more pervasive challenge in resource history than conventional readings suggest. Furthermore, environmental ignorance does not inevitably shrink with the march of scientific progress: these essays suggest more of a dialectical relationship between knowledge and ignorance that has different sha…
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Weitere Autoren: Uekötter, Frank (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-78533-207-4
- EAN: 9781785332074
- Produktnummer: 19319910
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 210 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.1 cm 312 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 312
Über den 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).
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