Cosmopolitan commons : sharing resources and risks across borders

Cosmopolitan commons : sharing resources and risks across borders / edited by Nil Disco and Eda Kranakis.

"With the advent of modernity, the sharing of resources and infrastructures rapidly expanded beyond local communities into regional, national, and even transnational space -- nowhere as visibly as in Europe, with its small-scale political divisions. This volume views these shared resource space...

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Other Authors: Disco, Cornelis (Editor), Kranakis, Eda (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, [2013]
Series:Infrastructures series.
Subjects:
Infrastructure (Economics) > Europe.
Natural resources > International cooperation.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Social Aspects.
Infrastructure (Economics)
International economic integration
Natural resources > International cooperation
Business & Economics.
Economic History.
Europe > Economic integration.
Europe
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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 / Håkon 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.

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