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Managing the Unknown: Essays on Environmental Ignorance
Frank Uekotter (Ed.)
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Description for Managing the Unknown: Essays on Environmental Ignorance
Paperback. Argues that deficient knowledge of the environment is a far more pervasive challenge in resource history than conventional readings suggest. Makes significant contribution to the inter-disciplinary debate about the production and resilience of ignorance. Editor(s): Uekotter, Frank; Lubken, Uwe. Series: The Environment in History: International Perspectives. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: HBG; RNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 288.
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 shapes and trajectories. With ... Read more
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 shapes and trajectories. With ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
The Environment in History: International Perspectives
Condition
New
Weight
288g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785332074
SKU
V9781785332074
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About Frank Uekotter (Ed.)
Frank Uekoetter is Reader at the School of History and Cultures of the University of Birmingham. His publications include The Age of Smoke. Environmental Policy in Germany and the United States, 1880-1970 (2009), The Green and the Brown. A History of Conservation in Nazi Germany (2006) and, as editor, The Turning Points of Environmental History (2010). He is currently working ... Read more
Reviews for Managing the Unknown: Essays on Environmental Ignorance
This is an interesting and well written set of essays that provides fresh and illuminating insights on many important topics, which makes it indispensible to practitioners and students of environmental history across the globe. Indeed, because it comments on so many topical issues, it should be of interest to anyone concerned about current environmental problems, their origins and possible solutions ... Read more