Information is crucial when it comes to the management of
resources. But what if knowledge is incomplete, or biased, or
otherwise deficient? How did people define patterns of proper use
in the absence of cognitive certainty? Discussing this challenge
for a diverse set of resources from fish to rubber, these essays
show that deficient knowledge is a far more pervasive challenge in
resource history than conventional readings suggest. Furthermore,
environmental ignorance does not inevitably shrink with the march
of scientific progress: these essays suggest more of a dialectical
relationship between knowledge and ignorance that has different
shapes and trajectories. With its combination of empirical case
studies and theoretical reflection, the essays make a significant
contribution to the interdisciplinary debate on the production and
resilience of ignorance. At the same time, this volume combines
insights from different continents as well as the seas in between
and thus sketches outlines of an emerging global resource history.
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