The postwar origins of the global environment : how the United Nations built Spaceship Earth /

Selcer, Perrin,

The postwar origins of the global environment : how the United Nations built Spaceship Earth / Perrin Selcer. - New York : Columbia University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource. - Columbia studies in international and global history .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : science, global governance, and the environment -- Behind the burlap curtain -- Conserving the world community -- Men against the desert -- The soil map of the world and the politics of scale -- Locating the global environment -- Spaceship earth in the age of fracture -- Conclusion : enduring lessons from utopian ruins.



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United Nations--History.


Environmentalism--International cooperation--History--20th century.
Environmental policy--International cooperation--History--20th century.
Science--International cooperation--History--20th century.
Internationalism--History--20th century.
World politics--1945-1989.


Electronic Books.

GE195 / .P678 2018