Environment and Infrastructure

Challenges, Knowledge and Innovation from the Early Modern Period to the Present
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-11-110064-7
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 221 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 653 g

Reihe: Studies in Early Modern and Contemporary European History

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.

Zielgruppe

Students and researchers of environmental history, history of sci

Autoren/Hrsg.

Occhi, Katia

Bonan, Giacomo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Umweltgeschichte & Umweltarchäologie

Über Autor(innen)

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