Nation-states are failing to resolve global problems that transcend the abilities of single governments or even groups of governments to address. This book argues that this dilemma is not as new as is sometimes claimed. It offers crucial context and even lessons for present-day debates about resolving the most urgent environmental problems.
Nation-states are failing to resolve global problems that transcend the abilities of single governments or even groups of governments to address. This book argues that this dilemma is not as new as is sometimes claimed. It offers crucial context and even lessons for present-day debates about resolving the most urgent environmental problems.
Erika Marie Bsumek is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. David Kinkela is Associate Professor of History at SUNY Fredonia. Mark Atwood Lawrence is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.
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* Contributors * Introduction * Erika Marie Bsumek, David Kinkela, and Mark Atwood Lawrence * Part I: Nature, Nation-States, and the Regulatory Dilemma * 1. Europe's River: The Rhine as Prelude to Transnational Cooperation and the Common Market, Mark Cioc * 2. National Sovereignty, the International Whaling Commission, and the Save the Whales Movement, Kurk Dorsey * 3. Global Borders and the Fish that Ignore Them: The Cold War Roots of Overfishing, Mary Carmel Finley * 4. Making Parks out of Making Wars: Transnational Nature Conservation and Environmental Diplomacy in the Twenty-First Century, Greg Bankoff * 5. Going Global After Vietnam: The End of Agent Orange and the Rise of an International Environmental Regime, David Zierler * 6. The Paradox of U.S. Pesticide Policy during the Age of Ecology, David Kinkela * Part II: Nature, Nations, and the Circulation of Knowledge * 7. The Imperial Politics of Hurricane Prediction: From Calcutta and Havana to Manila and Galveston, 1839-1900, Gregory T. Cushman * 8. Biological Control, Transnational Exchange, and the Construction of Environmental Thought in the United States, 1840-1920, James E. McWilliams * 9. Bird Day: Promoting the Gospel of Kindness in the Philippines during the American Occupation, Janet M. Davis * 10. Salmon Migrations, Nez Perce Nationalism, and the Global Economy, Benedict J. Colombi * 11. The Brazilian Amazon and the Transnational Environment, 1940-1990, Seth Garfield * 12. International Trash and the Politics of Poverty: Conceptualizing the Transnational Waste Trade, Emily Brownell * Afterword: International Systems and Their Discontents, J.R. McNeill
* Contributors * Introduction * Erika Marie Bsumek, David Kinkela, and Mark Atwood Lawrence * Part I: Nature, Nation-States, and the Regulatory Dilemma * 1. Europe's River: The Rhine as Prelude to Transnational Cooperation and the Common Market, Mark Cioc * 2. National Sovereignty, the International Whaling Commission, and the Save the Whales Movement, Kurk Dorsey * 3. Global Borders and the Fish that Ignore Them: The Cold War Roots of Overfishing, Mary Carmel Finley * 4. Making Parks out of Making Wars: Transnational Nature Conservation and Environmental Diplomacy in the Twenty-First Century, Greg Bankoff * 5. Going Global After Vietnam: The End of Agent Orange and the Rise of an International Environmental Regime, David Zierler * 6. The Paradox of U.S. Pesticide Policy during the Age of Ecology, David Kinkela * Part II: Nature, Nations, and the Circulation of Knowledge * 7. The Imperial Politics of Hurricane Prediction: From Calcutta and Havana to Manila and Galveston, 1839-1900, Gregory T. Cushman * 8. Biological Control, Transnational Exchange, and the Construction of Environmental Thought in the United States, 1840-1920, James E. McWilliams * 9. Bird Day: Promoting the Gospel of Kindness in the Philippines during the American Occupation, Janet M. Davis * 10. Salmon Migrations, Nez Perce Nationalism, and the Global Economy, Benedict J. Colombi * 11. The Brazilian Amazon and the Transnational Environment, 1940-1990, Seth Garfield * 12. International Trash and the Politics of Poverty: Conceptualizing the Transnational Waste Trade, Emily Brownell * Afterword: International Systems and Their Discontents, J.R. McNeill
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