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Cosmopolitan Commons : Sharing Resources and Risks Across Borders.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Infrastructures SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (356 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262313339
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cosmopolitan CommonsDDC classification:
  • 333
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Infrastructures Series -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Toward a Theory of Cosmopolitan Commons -- I Valorizing Nature -- 3 The "Good Miracle": Building a European Airspace Commons, 1919-1939 -- 4 Negotiating the Radio Spectrum: The Incessant Labor of Maintaining Space for European Broadcasting -- 5 Conflict and Cooperation: Negotiating a Transnational Hydropower Commons on the Karelian Isthmus -- II Protecting Humans and Nature -- 6 Predicting the Weather: An Information Commons for Europe and the World -- 7 Breeding Europe: Crop Diversity, Gene Banks, and Commoners -- 8 Under a Common Acid Sky: Negotiating Transboundary Air Pollution in Europe -- III Temporal Layering and Interlinking of Cosmopolitan Commons in Nature's Spaces -- 9 Changing Technology, Changing Commons: Freight, Fish, and Oil in the North Sea -- 10 "One Touch of Nature Makes the Whole World Kin": Ships, Fish, Phenol, and the Rhine, 1815-2000 -- 11 Conclusions -- Index.
Summary: A new approach in commons theory to understand the interactions of technology, society, and nature, supported by case studies of new transnational European commons.
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Intro -- Infrastructures Series -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Toward a Theory of Cosmopolitan Commons -- I Valorizing Nature -- 3 The "Good Miracle": Building a European Airspace Commons, 1919-1939 -- 4 Negotiating the Radio Spectrum: The Incessant Labor of Maintaining Space for European Broadcasting -- 5 Conflict and Cooperation: Negotiating a Transnational Hydropower Commons on the Karelian Isthmus -- II Protecting Humans and Nature -- 6 Predicting the Weather: An Information Commons for Europe and the World -- 7 Breeding Europe: Crop Diversity, Gene Banks, and Commoners -- 8 Under a Common Acid Sky: Negotiating Transboundary Air Pollution in Europe -- III Temporal Layering and Interlinking of Cosmopolitan Commons in Nature's Spaces -- 9 Changing Technology, Changing Commons: Freight, Fish, and Oil in the North Sea -- 10 "One Touch of Nature Makes the Whole World Kin": Ships, Fish, Phenol, and the Rhine, 1815-2000 -- 11 Conclusions -- Index.

A new approach in commons theory to understand the interactions of technology, society, and nature, supported by case studies of new transnational European commons.

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