ISBN:
9780521762441
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 362 p)
,
ill., map
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Publications of the German Historical Institute
Parallel Title:
Print version Environmental Histories of the Cold War
DDC:
304.2/80904
Keywords:
Human ecology History 20th century
;
Cold War Environmental aspects
;
Nature Effect of human beings on 20th century
;
History
Abstract:
Explores the links between the Cold War and the global environment, ranging from the environmental impacts of nuclear weapons to the political repercussions of environmentalism
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Contributors; Introduction The Big Picture; Context; Connections; The Environmental Effects of Proxy Wars; Agriculture and the Green Revolution; Cold War Infrastructure; Military Bases; Nuclear Weaponry; Military-Industrial Complexes; Respites for Nature; Cold War Environmentalism; Environmentalism and Diplomacy; Environmental History, the Cold War, and Science; Mobilizing Science, Mobilizing the Environment; Transnational Approaches; Controlling the Environment; Scientific Experts and Environmentalism
Description / Table of Contents:
A parting shotPart I Science and Planning; 1 War on Nature as Part of the Cold War; Soviet nature transformation across space and ecosystems; Ideological competition between the superpowers before the cold war; Gulag: slave labor and the environment; The impact of world war ii on the soviet environment; Subjugation of the far north; Postwar resource development in siberia and beyond; Brezhnev, the cold war, and nature; The nuclear enterprise; Perestroika and the end of the cold war; 2 Creating Cold War Climates; The nature of war; Surviving global dangers; Beginnings: harvard and lawrence
Description / Table of Contents:
Nature at natickSurvival treks and sleeping bags: the arctic aeromedical laboratory; The global laboratory; 3 A Global Contamination Zone; Radioactivity and the future of war; Absolute weapons; "The most cruel, diabolical weapons of mass destruction"; 4 Environmental Diplomacy in the Cold War; Weather modification - marginal to mainstream science; Science and the environment in international relations; Drought and opportunity; Project gromet; The cloud seeders arrive to cloudless skies; The outcome; 5 Containing Communism by Impounding Rivers
Description / Table of Contents:
Development aid agencies as channels for american hydro-technocracy after world war iiLeverage against socialism in the arab world: the aswan dam on the nile; Checking stalinism: the dez dam in iran; Introducing modernity: the helmand valley project in afghanistan; Dams for peace: david lilienthal and the indus basin; The mekong river: development visions and environmental critics; Conclusions; Part ii Geopolitics and the Environment; 6 Environmental Impacts of Nuclear Testing in Remote Oceania, 1946-1996; Nuclear testing in remote oceania by the united states,
Description / Table of Contents:
Nuclear testing in remote oceania by the united kingdom, Nuclear testing in remote oceania by france, ; Atmospheric effects of nuclear weapons testing in remote oceania; Geological impacts of nuclear testing in remote oceania; Nuclear testing impacts on the biota; Nuclear testing impacts on humans; Conclusions; 7 A Curtain of Silence; Animals and warfare; The cold war and asias fauna; Animal losers among asias fauna; Animal winners among asias fauna; A curtain of silence; 8 Against Protocol; The geneva protocol; Operation ranch hand: "only you can prevent forests"
Description / Table of Contents:
Ecological activism and the end of ranch hand
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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