Cosmopolitan commons : sharing resources and risks across borders / edited by Nil Disco and Eda Kranakis.
Contributor(s): Disco, Cornelis [editor of compilation.]
| Kranakis, Eda [editor of compilation.] | IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | MIT Press [publisher.].
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BookSeries: Infrastructures series: Publisher: Cambridge,Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2013]Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2013]Description: 1 PDF (viii, 345 pages).Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262313339.Subject(s): Infrastructure (Economics) -- Europe | Natural resources -- International cooperation | Europe -- Economic integrationGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version: No titleDDC classification: 333 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 / H�akon 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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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 spaces as the seedbeds of a new generation of technology-rich bureaucratic and transnational commons. Drawing on the theory of cosmopolitanism, which seeks to model the dynamics of an increasingly interdependent world, and on the tradition of commons scholarship inspired by the late Elinor Ostrom, the book develops a new theory of "cosmopolitan commons" that provides a framework for merging the study of technology with such issues as risk, moral order, and sustainability at levels beyond the nation-state. After laying out the theoretical framework, the book presents case studies that explore the empirical nuances: airspace as transport commons, radio broadcasting, hydropower, weather forecasting and genetic diversity as information commons, transboundary air pollution, and two "capstone" studies of interlinked, temporally layered commons: one on overlapping commons within the North Sea for freight, fishing, and fossil fuels; and one on commons for transport, salmon fishing, and clean water in the Rhine.Contributors:H�kon With Andersen, Nil Disco, Paul N. Edwards, Arne Kaijser, Eda Kranakis, Kristiina Korjonen-Kuusipuro, Tiago Saraiva, Nina WormbsThe hardcover edition does not include a dust jacket.
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