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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Towards a genealogy of planet management: Computer simulation, limits to growth and the emergence of global spaces
Abstract
dc:description"This dissertation explores the history of the idea that the earth and human activity constitute a total irreducible system. I explore the history of ""planet management"" by focusing on the scientific practices and discourses that make it possible to conceptualize the earth and human activity as a total system. Examples of these scientific practices, (which are constitutive of the very notion of planet management that they facilitate), include satellite surveillance and imaging of the earth, and global computer modeling."
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- History of Science
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2011
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Elichirigoity, Irving Fernando
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Burkhardt, Richard W.
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- Copyright 1994 Elichirigoity, Irving Fernando
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
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AAI9512353
(UMI)AAI9512353 - OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/22994