Frank Uekötter & Uwe Lübken 
Managing the Unknown [EPUB ebook] 
Essays on Environmental Ignorance

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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Uwe Lübken joined the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in 2009 and currently serves as director of the project “Disaster Migration in a Historical Perspective”. His habilitation thesis on flooding of the Ohio River was published in 2014. His most recent publications include, as an editor, two special issues of the journal Global Environment on Environmental Change and Migration in History (9/2012) and on Small Islands and Natural Hazards ( 8 (1/2015, New Series ), and, together with Greg Bankoff and Jordan Sand, Flammable Cities: Urban Conflagration and the Making of the Modern World (2012).