The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment: How the United Nations Built Spaceship Earth
- ISBN-10
- 0231166486
- ISBN-13
- 9780231166485
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 400
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018
- Publisher
- Columbia Studies in International and Global History
- Author
- Perrin Selcer
Description
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.
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