A new approach in commons theory to understand the interactions of technology, society, and nature, supported by case studies of new transnational European commons.
Acknowledgments
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1 Introduction
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Nil Disco
Eda Kranakis
2 Toward a Theory of Cosmopolitan Commons
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Nil Disco
Eda Kranakis
I Valorizing Nature
3 The "Good Miracle": Building a European Airspace Commons, 1919-1939
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Eda Kranakis
4 Negotiating the Radio Spectrum: The Incessant Labor of Maintaining Space for European Broadcasting
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Nina Wormbs
5 Conflict and Cooperation: Negotiating a Cosmopolitan Hydropower Commons on the Karelian Isthmus
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Kristiina Korjonen-Kuusipuro
II Protecting Humans and Nature
6 Predicting the Weather: An Information Commons for Europe and the World
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Paul N. Edwards
7 Breeding Europe: Crop Diversity, Gene Banks, and Commoners
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Tiago Saraiva
8 Under a Common Acid Sky: Negotiating Transboundary Air Pollution in Europe
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Arne Kaijser
III Temporal Layering and Interlinking of Cosmopolitan Commons in Nature's Spaces
9 Changing Technology, Changing Commons: Freight, Fish, and Oil in the North Sea
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Hakon With Andersen
10 "One Touch of Nature Makes the Whole World Kin": Ships, Fish, Phenol, and the Rhine, 1815-2000
