Resources Under Regimes: Technology, Environment, and the State

by Paul R. Josephson

Book Overview

Democratic or authoritarian, every society needs clean air and water; every state must manage its wildlife and natural resources. In this provocative, comparative study, Paul R. Josephson asks to what extent the form of a government and its economy--centrally planned or market, colonial or post-colonial--determines how politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, engineers, and industrialists address environmental and social problems presented by the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674022432
• ISBN13: 9780674022430
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.3" x 8.2"