Article ID: CBB697599503

‘Only One Earth’: Environmental Perceptions and Policies before the Stockholm Conference, 1968–1972 (2023)

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This article examines the emergence of global environmental perceptions and policies in the preparatory phase of the UN Conference on the Human Environment 1968–1972, based on an internationally comparative study of sixty-three preparatory country reports. Located at the intersection of global, knowledge, environmental and political history, the article raises two theses. First, that ‘the environment’ emerged as a field of knowledge in not only capitalist industrial societies but globally, thus in socialist and non-industrial societies too. Second, the article demonstrates a large overlap of environmental policies taken across geographical and ideological lines. Thus, the article sheds light on the understanding of environmental problems as well as national and international environmental policy measures around 1970 and thereby contributes to the question of how environmental governance emerged as a global field.

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Authors & Contributors
Velayutham Saravanan
Bankoff, Greg
Brady, Lisa M.
Coates, Peter A.
Graham, Wade
Larson, Derek R.
Journals
Environmental History
Business History Review
Journal of Asian Studies
Journal of the History of Ideas
Publishers
University of California Press
Bloomsbury Academic
Bloomsbury Publishing
Columbia University Press
ECW Press
Oregon State University Press
Concepts
Environmental history
Environmental policy
Conservation of natural resources
Forests and forestry
Natural resource management
Global history
People
Mao, Zedong
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
16th century
19th century
Modern
Places
United States
India
Korea
China
Great Britain
France
Institutions
United Nations
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