{"product_id":"managing-the-unknown-essays-on-environmental-ignorance-9781782382522","title":"Managing the Unknown: Essays on Environmental","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tInformation 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 its combination of empirical case studies and theoretical reflection, the essays make a significant contribution to the interdisciplinary debate on the production and resilience of ignorance. At the same time, this volume combines insights from different continents as well as the seas in between and thus sketches outlines of an emerging global resource history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eThis 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 (especially making manufacturing, forestry and farming sustainable, controlling waste and pollution and finding renewable energy sources). The chapters are of a uniformly high standard and the introduction expertly places them in context.\u003c\/em\u003e”  \u003cstrong\u003e·  Tom Brooking\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Otago\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Social Functions of Ignorance\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eFrank Uekötter and Uwe Lübken\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Guayule Fever. Los Knowledge and Struggles for a Natural Rubber Reserve in the American West\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMark R. Finlay\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Thinking in Cycles. Flows of Nitrogen and Sustainable Uses of the Environment\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHugh S. Gorman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Forests of Canada. Seeing the Forests for the Trees\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSusan Herrington\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Forest Law in the Palestine Mandate. Colonial Conservation in a Unique Context\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDavid Schorr\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Perception and Use of Marine Biological Resources under National Socialist Autarky Policy\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eOle Sparenberg\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6. \u003c\/strong\u003eIgnorance is Strength. Science-based Agriculture and the Merits of Incomplete Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eFrank Uekötter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Expert Estimates of Oil-Reserves and the Transformation of “Petroknowledge” in the Western World from the 1950s to the 1970s\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRüdiger Graf\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8. \u003c\/strong\u003eReducing Uncertainty with Scenarios?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCornelia Altenburg\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tList of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tSelect Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042212839767,"sku":"9781782382522","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781782382522.jpg?v=1750953469","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/managing-the-unknown-essays-on-environmental-ignorance-9781782382522","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}