Resources under regimes : technology, environment, and the state / Paul R. Josephson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Nature, technology, and worldview -- The modern state, industry, and the transformation of nature -- The coercive appeal to order: authoritarian approaches to resource management -- Development, colonialism, and the environment -- Biodiversity, sustainability, and technology in the twenty-first century.

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Democratic or authoritarian, every society needs clean air and water; every state must manage its wildlife and natural resources. In this provocative, comparative study, 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.

In English.

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