ISBN:
9780521762441
,
0521762448
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 362 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
,
24 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
Series Statement:
Publications of the German Historical Institute
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg. Environmental histories of the Cold War
DDC:
304.2/80904
Keywords:
Human ecology History 20th century
;
Nature Effect of human beings on 20th century
;
History
;
Cold War Environmental aspects
;
Ost-West-Konflikt
;
Kriegführung
;
Umweltgefährdung
;
Umweltbewusstsein
;
Geschichte
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Human ecology
;
History
;
20th century
;
Nature
;
Effect of human beings on
;
History
;
20th century
;
Cold War
;
Environmental aspects
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Ost-West-Konflikt
;
Kriegführung
;
Umweltgefährdung
;
Umweltbewusstsein
;
Geschichte
;
Umweltschaden
;
Sozialökologie
Abstract:
Introduction : The big picture / J.R. McNeill and Corinna R. Unger -- War on nature as part of the Cold War : the strategic and ideological roots of environmental degradation in the Soviet Union / Paul Josephson -- Creating Cold War climates : the laboratories of American globalism / Matthew Farish -- A global contamination zone : early Cold War planning for environmental warfare / Jacob Darwin Hamblin -- Environmental diplomacy in the Cold War : weather control, the United States, and India, 1966-1967 / Kristine C. Harper and Ronald E. Doel -- Containing communism by impounding rivers : American strategic interests and the global spread of high dams in the early Cold War / Richard P. Tucker -- Environmental impacts of nuclear testing in remote Oceania, 1946-1996 / Mark D. Merlin and Ricardo M. Gonzalez -- A curtain of silence : Asia's fauna in the Cold War / Greg Bankoff -- Against protocol : ecocide, d(c)♭tente, and the question of chemical warfare in Vietnam, 1969-1975 / David Zierler -- Environmental crisis and soft politics : d(c)♭tente and the global environment, 1968-1975 / Kai H(c)ơnem(c)œrder -- The new ecology of power : Julian and Aldous Huxley in the Cold War era / R.S. Deese -- Atmospheric nuclear weapons testing and the debate on risk knowledge in Cold War America, 1945-1963 / Toshihiro Higuchi -- The evolution of environmental problems and environmental policy in China : the interaction of internal and external forces / Bao Maohong -- The end of the Cold War : a turning point in environmental history? / Frank Uekoetter
Note:
Literaturangaben
,
Introduction : The big picture
,
War on nature as part of the Cold War : the strategic and ideological roots of environmental degradation in the Soviet Union
,
Creating Cold War climates : the laboratories of American globalism
,
A global contamination zone : early Cold War planning for environmental warfare
,
Environmental diplomacy in the Cold War : weather control, the United States, and India, 1966-1967
,
Containing communism by impounding rivers : American strategic interests and the global spread of high dams in the early Cold War
,
Environmental impacts of nuclear testing in remote Oceania, 1946-1996
,
A curtain of silence : Asia's fauna in the Cold War
,
Against protocol : ecocide, détente, and the question of chemical warfare in Vietnam, 1969-1975
,
Environmental crisis and soft politics : détente and the global environment, 1968-1975
,
The new ecology of power : Julian and Aldous Huxley in the Cold War era
,
Atmospheric nuclear weapons testing and the debate on risk knowledge in Cold War America, 1945-1963
,
The evolution of environmental problems and environmental policy in China : the interaction of internal and external forces
,
The end of the Cold War : a turning point in environmental history?
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=33415
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=33415
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