Environment and Infrastructure: Challenges, Knowledge and Innovation from the Early Modern Period to the Present

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3111100642
• ISBN13: 9783111100647
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: de Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"