Industrialized Nature
Subtitle: Brute Force Technology And The Transformation Of The Natural World
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Island Press
Published: October 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781559637770
Subjects: Human ecology; Management of land & natural resources; Pollution & threats to the environment; Technology: General Issues; Science/Mathematics; General; Technology; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Natural resources; Management; History; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Science / Environmental Science; Environmental Engineering & Technology; Technological innovations; 20th century; Environmental aspects; Industrialization
First sentence: FLOODS, STAGNANT POOLS, rapids, seasonal trickles, and hard freezes are the nature of a river's life.
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."--BOOK JACKET.