Cosmopolitan Commons - Sharing Resources and Risks Across Borders

Informationen zum Autor Nil Disco is Senior Researcher in the Department of Science! Technology! and Policy Studies at the University of Twente. Eda Kranakis is Professor of History at the University of Ottawa and the author of Constructing a Bridge: An Exploration of Engineering Culture! Design! and Research in Nineteenth-Century France and America (MIT Press! 1997). Klappentext With the advent of modernity! the sharing of resources and infrastructures rapidly expanded beyond local communities into regional! national! and even transnational space. This book views these shared resource spaces as the seedbeds of a new generation of technology-rich bureaucratic and transnational commons. Zusammenfassung A new approach in commons theory to understand the interactions of technology! society! and nature! supported by case studies of new transnational European commons.

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• Authors: Cornelis Kranakis Disco, Nil Disco, Nil (EDT)/ Kranakis Disco, Nil (University of Twente -- Bbt) Kranakis Disco, Nil Disco Disco
• Assisted by: Nil Disco (Editor), Nil (University of Twente -- BBT) Disco (Editor), Nil (University of Twente) Disco (Editor), Eda Kranakis (Editor), Eda (Professor Kranakis (Editor), Eda (Professor) Kranakis (Editor)
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.06.2013
• EAN: 9780262518413
• ISBN: 978-0-262-51841-3
• No. of pages: 356
• Series: Infrastructures; Infrastructures; Cosmopolitan Commons
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches