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
Summary
Perrin Selcer tells the story of how the United Nations built the international knowledge infrastructure that made the global-scale environment visible. Experts affiliated with UN agencies helped make the "global"--As in global population, global climate, and global economy-an object in need of governance
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed on October 12, 2018)
