Environment and Infrastructure
Challenges, Knowledge and Innovation from the Early Modern Period to the Present, Studies in Early Modern and Contemporary European History 6
Erschienen am
26.04.2023, 1. Auflage 2023
Bibliografische Daten
ISBN/EAN: 9783111100647
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: V, 221 S., 6 s/w Illustr., 15 farbige Illustr., 3
Format (T/L/B): 1.8 x 24.4 x 17.6 cm
Einband: gebundenes Buch
Beschreibung
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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Autorenportrait
Giacomo Bonan, University of Turin. Katia Occhi, FBK ISIG, Trento.
