Cold War landscapes
Towards an environmental history of US development programmes in the 1950s and 1960s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12695740 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Robertson (0000-0001-6152-5511, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 417-441 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-06 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cold War History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-2745 • E-ISSN: 1743-7962 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14682745.2014.950238 |
| OpenAlex | W2021181191 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
This essay examines the environmental history of US development programs during the early Cold War. The first part of the essay revisits Point Four programs, arguing that resource development was an essential, but now frequently overlooked component. The rest of the article reviews several recent scholarly works about development to examine changes in three crucial parts of the global environment: river systems, agriculture, and human health. These recent works show how central environmental manipulations were to American development programs. I stress the importance of looking not just at the ideas behind a project, but also what happens ‘on the ground,’ especially the meanings local residents attach to environmental changes
Agriculture · Archaeology · Cold war · Economic history · Environmental ethics · Environmental history · Political science · Politics · Resource (disambiguation · American Environmental and Regional History · American History and Culture · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law
| Citations per year | 1.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |