Argues that deficient knowledge of the environment is a far more pervasive challenge in resource history than conventional readings suggest
Makes significant contribution to the inter-disciplinary debate about the production and resilience of ignorance
Combines insights from different continents, sketching outlines of an emerging global resource history
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Social Functions of Ignorance
Frank Uekötter and Uwe Lübken
Chapter 1. Guayule Fever. Los Knowledge and Struggles for a Natural Rubber Reserve in the American West
Mark R. Finlay
Chapter 2. Thinking in Cycles. Flows of Nitrogen and Sustainable Uses of the Environment
Hugh S. Gorman
Chapter 3. The Forests of Canada. Seeing the Forests for the Trees
Susan Herrington
Chapter 4. Forest Law in the Palestine Mandate. Colonial Conservation in a Unique Context
David Schorr
Chapter 5. Perception and Use of Marine Biological Resources under National Socialist Autarky Policy
Ole Sparenberg
Chapter 6. Ignorance is Strength. Science-based Agriculture and the Merits of Incomplete Knowledge
Frank Uekötter
Chapter 7. Expert Estimates of Oil-Reserves and the Transformation of "Petroknowledge" in the Western World from the 1950s to the 1970s
Rüdiger Graf
Chapter 8. Reducing Uncertainty with Scenarios?
Cornelia Altenburg
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