Sabine Höhler
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 974196 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sabine Höhler |
| NOMBRES | Sabine |
| APELLIDO | Höhler |
| FIRMA | HÖHLER S |
| AFILIACIONES | KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 38 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The great dispersal
This article presents a new way of understanding Global Environmental Governance (GEG), historically and functionally. We outline a revised analytical framing, which connects the post-WWII moment of early globalizing conservation with the intensifying attempts to govern the human-earth relationship through an ever-growing assemblage of governable environmental objects and their quantifiable indicators as proxies . Our argument is as follows: (1) …
The mediated planet
Over the past half century, the global environment has become subject to an accelerated pace of mediation and datafication. This ongoing transition has become so comprehensive that the knowledge, management and governance of the Earth system is dependent on enormous flows of data from a “vast machine” of measuring tools. These processes combined have formed what we call a “mediated planet,” subject to interpretation and shared human decision-maki…
Sara B. Pritchard and Carl A. Zimring, Technology and the Environment in History
PCBs, GMOs, CFCs, DDT, O2: At the intersections of technology and the environment, new objects have emerged. They are often synthetic, sometimes toxic, and, even if occurring naturally, have had unanticipated effects on human environments and bodies. ‘Envirotech’ addresses technologised environments, a field has that gained attention and urgency as the Anthropocene unfolded. Envirotech argues that an original untouched state of nature ceased to e…
Earth, a Technogarden
This paper studies the new repositories of specimens and knowledge that emerged from Sweden’s first “phytotron,” a modern climate laboratory for plant research established in Stockholm in the 1960s. Different aspects and scales of technoscientific plant and crop growth came together under one roof: inhouse trials on the timing and spacing of trees and crops, postwar domestic policies to modernize a largely rural country, and Swedish forest geneti…
Writing History in the Anthropocene
We introduce three topics that characterize research in and of the Anthropocene: terrestrial scales (temporal, systemic, and spatial); accountability within and beyond the social, cultural, and political realms of human interaction; and the unprecedented accumulation and redistribution of earth matter. Historians are well equipped to both explain social change and expose the historicity of concepts, institutions, individual or collective routines…
Local disruption or global condition? El Niño as weather and as climate phenomenon
El Niño denotes a periodical warm water stream in the Pacific Ocean. But who knew about this phenomenon, where and how? El Niño ‘the boy’ emerged as a fabric of local experiences and stories of extreme weather events: tropical winter storms, floods, droughts and famines in the coastal states of South America, Indonesia and Southeast Asia. In the Northern Hemisphere this rich cultural history went largely unnoticed. Only in the 1980s and 1990s did…
Die Weltmeere
In the 1970s the world's oceans were not just another resource to be developed, they were imagined as a place of inexhaustible supply, an unlimited reservoir of proteins, mineral resources and human living space, supplementing the exploited landmasses. This article argues that the sciences, technologies and politics of ocean exploration promoted the image of the earth's biotic and abiotic matter as convertible and replaceable in perfect metabolic…
Von Biodiversität zu Biodiversifizierung
From Biodiversity to Biodiversification: A New Economy of Nature? This paper explores the relations between economy and ecology in the last quarter of the 20th century with the example of biodiversity. From its definition in the 1980s, the concept of biodiversity responded not only to conservational concerns but also to hopes and demands of economic profitability. The paper argues that archival systems of inventorying and surveying nature, the bi…
Einleitung
Der internationale Handel bestehe hauptsächlich im Tausch von Manufakturprodukten gegen Rohstoffe und Naturprodukte, schrieb der Ökonom und Staatswissenschaftler Friedrich List 1841 in Das nationale System der politischen Ökonomie. Infolge Angebot und Nachfrage ergebe sich eine gegenseitige Abhängigkeit zwischen rohstoffproduzierenden und industriegüterexportierenden Ländern, oder in den Worten Lists: Wenn so die Länder der heißen Zone ungleich g…
Civilizing Nature
Civilizing Nature
National parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon. The development of these ecological and political systems cannot be understood as a simple reaction to mounting environmental problems, nor can it be explained by the spread of environmental sensibilities. Shifting the focus from the usu…
Civilizing nature
"National Parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon. The development of this multitude of ecological as well as political systems cannot be understood as a simple reaction to mounting environmental problems, nor can it be explained by the spread of environmental sensibilities. Shifting th…
The environment as a life support system
This paper studies an attempt to replicate the Earth's biosphere in the second half of the twentieth century with the aim of preserving and refashioning the environment as a self‐reproducing ecological system. Ecosystems dynamics framed the planet Earth as a closed system and directed scientific attention to questions of global environmental management. The image of the Earth as a spacecraft and operable in a similar way supported ideas of placin…
Nature's Accountability
Nature has been taken into account for the sake of maximizing sustained yield and producing sustainable quality in forestry, fishery and agriculture through the production of cosmopolitan science in the context of capitalist development. Taking nature into account involves bookkeeping practices, statistical tables, graphs and models. It includes standardized units and metrics to inventory and to value nutrients or populations. Such accounting fol…
The Law of Growth
This paper addresses the conditions and implications of aggregating humans into ‘populations’ through statistical means. Engaging with statistical constructions of world population and population growth in the 20th century the paper discusses the ‘biological law of population growth’ which corroborated predictions of a ‘population explosion’ and demands for ‘population control’ after World War II. The biostatistical model and curve were developed…
Upheaval from the Abyss
This is a story of very strong upward movements: genesis, struggle, progress, upheaval, revolution, and triumph. David Lawrence describes how the mapping of the ocean floor from the 1850s onward revealed that the earth's features had not been permanent throughout history. In the mid-1960s scientists confirmed the phenomenon of "seafloor spreading," the upheaval of the earth's crust from the rifts in the midocean ridges and the cause of continenta…
Depth records and ocean volumes
Oceanographic research commencing in the mid-19th century could not rely on the direct observation of its object, but had to create its images of ocean depth through remote investigation. Depth became a matter of scientific definitions, systematic measurements, and graphic representations. In the course of a century, the opaque ocean of the 1850s was densely depicted in physical terms and transformed into a technically and scientifically sound oc…
Nature's Accountability
Nature has been taken into account for the sake of maximizing sustained yield and producing sustainable quality in forestry, fishery and agriculture through the production of cosmopolitan science in the context of capitalist development. Taking nature into account involves bookkeeping practices, statistical tables, graphs and models. It includes standardized units and metrics to inventory and to value nutrients or populations. Such accounting fol…
Writing History in the Anthropocene
We introduce three topics that characterize research in and of the Anthropocene: terrestrial scales (temporal, systemic, and spatial); accountability within and beyond the social, cultural, and political realms of human interaction; and the unprecedented accumulation and redistribution of earth matter. Historians are well equipped to both explain social change and expose the historicity of concepts, institutions, individual or collective routines…
The mediated planet
Over the past half century, the global environment has become subject to an accelerated pace of mediation and datafication. This ongoing transition has become so comprehensive that the knowledge, management and governance of the Earth system is dependent on enormous flows of data from a “vast machine” of measuring tools. These processes combined have formed what we call a “mediated planet,” subject to interpretation and shared human decision-maki…
Local disruption or global condition? El Niño as weather and as climate phenomenon
El Niño denotes a periodical warm water stream in the Pacific Ocean. But who knew about this phenomenon, where and how? El Niño ‘the boy’ emerged as a fabric of local experiences and stories of extreme weather events: tropical winter storms, floods, droughts and famines in the coastal states of South America, Indonesia and Southeast Asia. In the Northern Hemisphere this rich cultural history went largely unnoticed. Only in the 1980s and 1990s did…
Einleitung
Der internationale Handel bestehe hauptsächlich im Tausch von Manufakturprodukten gegen Rohstoffe und Naturprodukte, schrieb der Ökonom und Staatswissenschaftler Friedrich List 1841 in Das nationale System der politischen Ökonomie. Infolge Angebot und Nachfrage ergebe sich eine gegenseitige Abhängigkeit zwischen rohstoffproduzierenden und industriegüterexportierenden Ländern, oder in den Worten Lists: Wenn so die Länder der heißen Zone ungleich g…
The Law of Growth
This paper addresses the conditions and implications of aggregating humans into ‘populations’ through statistical means. Engaging with statistical constructions of world population and population growth in the 20th century the paper discusses the ‘biological law of population growth’ which corroborated predictions of a ‘population explosion’ and demands for ‘population control’ after World War II. The biostatistical model and curve were developed…
Die Weltmeere
In the 1970s the world's oceans were not just another resource to be developed, they were imagined as a place of inexhaustible supply, an unlimited reservoir of proteins, mineral resources and human living space, supplementing the exploited landmasses. This article argues that the sciences, technologies and politics of ocean exploration promoted the image of the earth's biotic and abiotic matter as convertible and replaceable in perfect metabolic…
Von Biodiversität zu Biodiversifizierung
From Biodiversity to Biodiversification: A New Economy of Nature? This paper explores the relations between economy and ecology in the last quarter of the 20th century with the example of biodiversity. From its definition in the 1980s, the concept of biodiversity responded not only to conservational concerns but also to hopes and demands of economic profitability. The paper argues that archival systems of inventorying and surveying nature, the bi…
Depth records and ocean volumes
Oceanographic research commencing in the mid-19th century could not rely on the direct observation of its object, but had to create its images of ocean depth through remote investigation. Depth became a matter of scientific definitions, systematic measurements, and graphic representations. In the course of a century, the opaque ocean of the 1850s was densely depicted in physical terms and transformed into a technically and scientifically sound oc…
Upheaval from the Abyss
This is a story of very strong upward movements: genesis, struggle, progress, upheaval, revolution, and triumph. David Lawrence describes how the mapping of the ocean floor from the 1850s onward revealed that the earth's features had not been permanent throughout history. In the mid-1960s scientists confirmed the phenomenon of "seafloor spreading," the upheaval of the earth's crust from the rifts in the midocean ridges and the cause of continenta…
The Law of Growth
This paper addresses the conditions and implications of aggregating humans into ‘populations’ through statistical means. Engaging with statistical constructions of world population and population growth in the 20th century the paper discusses the ‘biological law of population growth’ which corroborated predictions of a ‘population explosion’ and demands for ‘population control’ after World War II. The biostatistical model and curve were developed…
The environment as a life support system
This paper studies an attempt to replicate the Earth's biosphere in the second half of the twentieth century with the aim of preserving and refashioning the environment as a self‐reproducing ecological system. Ecosystems dynamics framed the planet Earth as a closed system and directed scientific attention to questions of global environmental management. The image of the Earth as a spacecraft and operable in a similar way supported ideas of placin…
Nature's Accountability
Nature has been taken into account for the sake of maximizing sustained yield and producing sustainable quality in forestry, fishery and agriculture through the production of cosmopolitan science in the context of capitalist development. Taking nature into account involves bookkeeping practices, statistical tables, graphs and models. It includes standardized units and metrics to inventory and to value nutrients or populations. Such accounting fol…
Civilizing Nature
Civilizing Nature
National parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon. The development of these ecological and political systems cannot be understood as a simple reaction to mounting environmental problems, nor can it be explained by the spread of environmental sensibilities. Shifting the focus from the usu…
Civilizing nature
"National Parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon. The development of this multitude of ecological as well as political systems cannot be understood as a simple reaction to mounting environmental problems, nor can it be explained by the spread of environmental sensibilities. Shifting th…
Die Weltmeere
In the 1970s the world's oceans were not just another resource to be developed, they were imagined as a place of inexhaustible supply, an unlimited reservoir of proteins, mineral resources and human living space, supplementing the exploited landmasses. This article argues that the sciences, technologies and politics of ocean exploration promoted the image of the earth's biotic and abiotic matter as convertible and replaceable in perfect metabolic…
Von Biodiversität zu Biodiversifizierung
From Biodiversity to Biodiversification: A New Economy of Nature? This paper explores the relations between economy and ecology in the last quarter of the 20th century with the example of biodiversity. From its definition in the 1980s, the concept of biodiversity responded not only to conservational concerns but also to hopes and demands of economic profitability. The paper argues that archival systems of inventorying and surveying nature, the bi…
Einleitung
Der internationale Handel bestehe hauptsächlich im Tausch von Manufakturprodukten gegen Rohstoffe und Naturprodukte, schrieb der Ökonom und Staatswissenschaftler Friedrich List 1841 in Das nationale System der politischen Ökonomie. Infolge Angebot und Nachfrage ergebe sich eine gegenseitige Abhängigkeit zwischen rohstoffproduzierenden und industriegüterexportierenden Ländern, oder in den Worten Lists: Wenn so die Länder der heißen Zone ungleich g…
Local disruption or global condition? El Niño as weather and as climate phenomenon
El Niño denotes a periodical warm water stream in the Pacific Ocean. But who knew about this phenomenon, where and how? El Niño ‘the boy’ emerged as a fabric of local experiences and stories of extreme weather events: tropical winter storms, floods, droughts and famines in the coastal states of South America, Indonesia and Southeast Asia. In the Northern Hemisphere this rich cultural history went largely unnoticed. Only in the 1980s and 1990s did…
Earth, a Technogarden
This paper studies the new repositories of specimens and knowledge that emerged from Sweden’s first “phytotron,” a modern climate laboratory for plant research established in Stockholm in the 1960s. Different aspects and scales of technoscientific plant and crop growth came together under one roof: inhouse trials on the timing and spacing of trees and crops, postwar domestic policies to modernize a largely rural country, and Swedish forest geneti…
Writing History in the Anthropocene
We introduce three topics that characterize research in and of the Anthropocene: terrestrial scales (temporal, systemic, and spatial); accountability within and beyond the social, cultural, and political realms of human interaction; and the unprecedented accumulation and redistribution of earth matter. Historians are well equipped to both explain social change and expose the historicity of concepts, institutions, individual or collective routines…
Sara B. Pritchard and Carl A. Zimring, Technology and the Environment in History
PCBs, GMOs, CFCs, DDT, O2: At the intersections of technology and the environment, new objects have emerged. They are often synthetic, sometimes toxic, and, even if occurring naturally, have had unanticipated effects on human environments and bodies. ‘Envirotech’ addresses technologised environments, a field has that gained attention and urgency as the Anthropocene unfolded. Envirotech argues that an original untouched state of nature ceased to e…
The mediated planet
Over the past half century, the global environment has become subject to an accelerated pace of mediation and datafication. This ongoing transition has become so comprehensive that the knowledge, management and governance of the Earth system is dependent on enormous flows of data from a “vast machine” of measuring tools. These processes combined have formed what we call a “mediated planet,” subject to interpretation and shared human decision-maki…
The great dispersal
This article presents a new way of understanding Global Environmental Governance (GEG), historically and functionally. We outline a revised analytical framing, which connects the post-WWII moment of early globalizing conservation with the intensifying attempts to govern the human-earth relationship through an ever-growing assemblage of governable environmental objects and their quantifiable indicators as proxies . Our argument is as follows: (1) …
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