Cosmopolitan commons sharing resources and risks across borders

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, [2013]
• Series: Infrastructures series.
• Subjects: Infrastructure (Economics) > Europe.; Europe > Economic integration.; Natural resources > International cooperation.; Europe.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9780262313339
• Physical Description: 1 online zdroj.

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 / Hęakon 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.