Frank (Hrsg.) Uekötter

Managing the Unknown

Essays on Environmental Ignorance

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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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Lübken, Uwe (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-78238-253-9
EAN: 9781782382539
Produktnummer: 20450280
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 208 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 3'832 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Reihenbandnummer: 3

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).