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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
The MIT Press
2020
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| Collection: | MIT Press eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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"-- |
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| ISBN: | 0262359103 9780262359108 |