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Resources under Regimes: Technology, Environment, and the State (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine)
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by Paul R. Josephson
Sales Rank: 1540031
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Cover Type: Paperback with 278 pages
Published by: Harvard University Press September 1, 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0674022432
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0674022430
Book Dimensions:
8.1 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 9.1 ounces
Product Review
A worthy examination of this global phenomenon.
--J. H. Hunter (Choice )
Common to all modern nations is the tendency to rely on large-scale manipulations of nature to achieve progress: big dams for irrigation and hydroelectricity, industrialized farming and commercial production, nuclear power, and automobiles. According to Josephson, such technologies typically create as many problems as they solve, especially those related to environmental and social inequalities. These problems are evident locally, where citizens often compete with corporations and political elites for control of resources. They appear globally as well, where wealthy industrialized nations are able to enjoy better environmental quality in part by relying on less developed countries to absorb their pollution and resource demands. Ultimately, Josephson's analysis challenges readers to question the wisdom of this kind of progress, upon which nearly every nation in the twenty-first century has come to rely.
--Gregory Summers (Environmental History )
Product Description
Democratic or authoritarian, every society requirements clean air and water; every state must manage its wildlife and natural resources. In this provocative, comparative study, Paul R. Josephson asks to what extent the form of a government and its economy--centrally planned or market, colonial or post-colonial--determines how politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, engineers, and industrialists address environmental and social problems presented by the transformation of nature into a humanized landscape.
Looking at the experiences of the industrialized and industrializing world, Resources under Regimes explores the relationship between science, technology, and the environment. Josephson considers global responses to deforestation, water pollution, and global warming, showing how different societies bring different values and assumptions to bear on the same problem, and arrive at different conclusions about the ideal outcome and the best way of achieving it. He reveals the important ways in which modern governments facilitate power generation, transportation, water production, and other technologies that improve the quality of life; and the equally critical ways in which they respond to the resulting depredations--the pollution, waste, and depletion that constitute the global environmental crisis at the beginning of the twenty-first century. (20050701)
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