Mercury stories understanding sustainability through a volatile element

"Mercury offers an opportunity to trace a millennial-scale history of human interactions with an element whose use has both benefited and harmed human well-being in complex and interacting ways. The book develops and applies an analytical framework using the perspective of a human-technical-env...

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Main Authors: Selin, Henrik, Eckley, Noelle (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts The MIT Press 2020
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Collection: MIT Press eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:"Mercury offers an opportunity to trace a millennial-scale history of human interactions with an element whose use has both benefited and harmed human well-being in complex and interacting ways. The book develops and applies an analytical framework using the perspective of a human-technical-environmental system to learn from the long history of human mercury use and exposure, and to inform strategies--here done in story form--by which people can effect change towards greater sustainability"--
ISBN:0262359103
9780262359108