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.