Table of Contents
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
List of Contributors Select Bibliography
