Environment and Infrastructure : : Challenges, Knowledge and Innovation from the Early Modern Period to the Present / / ed. by Giacomo Bonan, Katia Occhi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Bonan, Giacomo,; Di Tullio, Matteo,; Gentilcore, David,; Graber, Frédéric,; Kirchhof, Astrid Mignon,; Koshelev, Yaroslav,; Lorenzini, Claudio,; Manthey, Florian,; McNeill, John R.,; Müller, Simone M.,; Occhi, Katia,; Parrinello, Giacomo,; Pelkner, Anna-Katharina,; Schein, Judith,; Soens, Tim,; Stöger, Georg,; Trischler, Helmuth,; Uhlig, Christiane,; Will, Fabienne,
• HerausgeberIn: Bonan, Giacomo,; Occhi, Katia,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Early Modern and Contemporary European History , 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (V, 221 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; The Hybrid Nature of Infrastructures --; I. Overview --; Provocations to Environmental History and History of Technology: The Anthropocene --; II. Urban Metabolism and the Transformation of Hinterlands --; Urban Environmental Infrastructure in the Eastern Alpine Region. (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century) --; From “Stues” to “Çates” --; Uranium Stories --; III. The Multiple Scales of Enviro-Technical Systems --; Water as Infrastructure and the Scalar Mismatch --; The Ideal Public for Infrastructures --; Dirty New Natures --; IV. Hybrid Landscape: Infrastructures of Water Control --; Coping with Water --; Slow Infrastructures, Flood Protection and Extreme Weather Events --; Decadent Infrastructure? --; V. Conclusion --; Afterword: Reflections on Environmental Infrastructure --; Contributors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783111112756; 9783111175782; 9783111319292; 9783111318912; 9783111319131; 9783111318189
• ISSN: 2629-3730
• DOI: 10.1515/9783111112756
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Giacomo Bonan, Katia Occhi.

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.