Cosmopolitan commons sharing resources and risks across borders /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Disco, Cornelis., Kranakis, Eda.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2013.
Series:Infrastructures series
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Nil Disco and Eda Kranakis
  • Toward a theory of cosmopolitan commons / Nil Disco and Eda Kranakis
  • Part I: Valorizing nature
  • The good miracle: building a European airspace commons, 1919-1939 / Eda Kranakis
  • Negotiating the radio spectrum: the incessant labor of maintaining space for European broadcasting / Nina Wormbs
  • Conflict and cooperation: negotiating a cosmopolitan hydropower commons in the Karelian Isthmus / Kristiina Korjonen-Kuusipuro
  • Part II: Protecting humans and nature
  • Predicting the weather: an information commons for Europe and the world / Paul N. Edwards
  • Breeding Europe: crop diversity, gene banks, and commoners / Tiago Saraiva
  • Under a common acid sky: negotiating transboundary air pollution in Europe / Arne Kaijser
  • Part III: Putting it all together: temporal layering and iInterlinking of cosmopolitan commons in nature's spaces
  • Changing technology, changing commons: freight, fish and oil in the North Sea / Hakon With Andersen
  • One touch of nature makes the whole world kin: ships, fish, phenol and the Rhine, 1815-2000 / Nil Disco
  • Conclusions / Nil Disco and Eda Kranakis.