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- catalog abstract ""In Industrialized Nature, the accomplished historian Paul R. Josephson shows us how science, engineering, policy, finance, and hubris have come together, often with unforeseen consequences, to perpetuate what he calls "brute force technologies"--Large-scale systems created to exploit water, forest, and fish resources. Nations with quite different political systems and economic orientations (such as the former Soviet Union, Norway Brazil, and the United States) have pursued a remarkably similar strategy of using such large-scale technology to turn nature into a smoothly running machine. Josephson vividly demonstrates how irresponsible - or well-intentioned but misguided - large-scale manipulation of nature has resulted, time after time, in resource loss, social disruption, more brute force politics, and severe environmental degradation."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12650425.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""In Industrialized Nature, the accomplished historian Paul R. Josephson shows us how science, engineering, policy, finance, and hubris have come together, often with unforeseen consequences, to perpetuate what he calls "brute force technologies"--Large-scale systems created to exploit water, forest, and fish resources. Nations with quite different political systems and economic orientations (such as the former Soviet Union, Norway Brazil, and the United States) have pursued a remarkably similar strategy of using such large-scale technology to turn nature into a smoothly running machine. Josephson vividly demonstrates how irresponsible - or well-intentioned but misguided - large-scale manipulation of nature has resulted, time after time, in resource loss, social disruption, more brute force politics, and severe environmental degradation."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-298) and index.".
- catalog description "Prologue: Industrialized Nature -- Pyramids of Concrete: Rivers, Dams, and the Ideological Roots of Brute Force Technology -- The Cellulose Factory -- Corridors of Modernization -- Cold-Blooded Machines -- Epilogue: Nature Irrevocably Transformed?".
- catalog extent "vii, 313 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1559637773 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington, [DC] : Island Press/Shearwater Books,".
- catalog subject "303.48/3/0904 21".
- catalog subject "Conservation of natural resources.".
- catalog subject "Environmental protection.".
- catalog subject "Industrialization Environmental aspects.".
- catalog subject "Natural resources Management.".
- catalog subject "T173.8 .J67 2002".
- catalog subject "Technological innovations History 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: Industrialized Nature -- Pyramids of Concrete: Rivers, Dams, and the Ideological Roots of Brute Force Technology -- The Cellulose Factory -- Corridors of Modernization -- Cold-Blooded Machines -- Epilogue: Nature Irrevocably Transformed?".
- catalog title "Industrialized nature : brute force technology and the transformation of the natural world / Paul R. Josephson.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".