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Technology has long been an essential consideration in public discussions of the environment, with the focus overwhelmingly on creating new tools and techniques. In more recent years, however, activists, researchers, and policymakers have increasingly turned to mobilizing older technologies in their pursuit of sustainability. In fascinating case studies ranging from the Early Modern secondhand trade to utopian visions of human-powered vehicles, the contributions gathered here explore the historical fortunes of two such technologies—bicycling and waste recycling—tracing their development over time and providing valuable context for the policy successes and failures of today.
Relation between energy and economics --- World history --- anno 1900-1999 --- Recycling (Waste, etc.) --- Salvage (Waste, etc.) --- Bicycles --- Scrapping --- Cycling --- Sustainability --- History --- Environmental aspects --- Cycling - History --- Cycling - Environmental aspects --- Recycling (Waste, etc.) - History --- Recycling (Waste, etc.) - Environmental aspects --- Bicycles - Scrapping --- Sustainability. --- Sustainability science --- Human ecology --- Social ecology --- Conversion of waste products --- Recovery of natural resources --- Recovery of waste materials --- Resource recovery --- Waste recycling --- Waste reuse --- Conservation of natural resources --- Refuse and refuse disposal --- Energy conservation --- Waste products --- Bicycle riding --- Bicycle transportation --- Bicycling --- Aerobic exercises --- Locomotion --- Dicycles --- Tricycles --- Unicycles --- History. --- Environmental aspects. --- activists. --- bicycling and waste recycling. --- context for policy today. --- exploration of bicycling. --- exploration of waste recycling. --- historical. --- mobilizing older technologies. --- policymakers. --- public discussions of environment. --- pursuit of sustainability. --- researchers. --- tracing development. --- Handcycles
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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.
Infrastructure (Economics) --- Environmental aspects. --- History. --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Economic infrastructure --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Economic development --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Public works --- Capital
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