Environment and Infrastructure: Challenges, Knowledge and Innovation from the Early Modern Period to the Present (Studies in Early Modern and Contemporary European History, 6) - Hardcover

 
9783111100647: Environment and Infrastructure: Challenges, Knowledge and Innovation from the Early Modern Period to the Present (Studies in Early Modern and Contemporary European History, 6)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3111100642 ISBN 13: 9783111100647
Verlag: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

The material and energy flows that characterized the metabolism of preindustrial and industrial societies were organized through complex infrastructures based on interwoven social and natural elements. Analyzing infrastructures from many methodological and thematic perspectives, the present volume adopts an extensive periodization to identify the undeniable changes caused by industrialization and the persistence of pre-existing features and dynamics. The contributions range from the late Middle Ages to the 1990s and deepen historical characteristics of urban metabolism, the study of energy systems and their transitions, and the management and control of water resources.

These reveal the strategies societies and states adopted to transform and adapt their surrounding environment in a constant and challenging equilibrium of diverse interests, whose impact over time has had environmental consequences on a global scale.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Giacomo Bonan, University of Turin. Katia Occhi, FBK ISIG, Trento.

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Verlag
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3111100642
ISBN 13 
9783111100647
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
226
Herausgeber
Bonan Giacomo, Occhi Katia
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