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Cycling and recycling : histories of sustainable practices / edited by Ruth Oldenziel and Helmuth Trischler.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Environment in history ; v. 7.
- Environment in History: International Perspectives ; Volume 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cycling--History.
- Cycling.
- Cycling--Environmental aspects.
- Recycling (Waste, etc.)--History.
- Recycling (Waste, etc.).
- Recycling (Waste, etc.)--Environmental aspects.
- Sustainability.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn, 2016.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Figures; How Old Technologies Became Sustainable: An Introduction; Part I - Cycling Histories; Chapter 1 - Use and Cycling in West Africa; Chapter 2 - The Politics of Bicycle Innovation: Comparing the American and Dutch Human-Powered Vehicle Movements, 1970s-Present; Chapter 3 - Scarcity, Poverty, Exclusion: Negative Associations of the Bicycle's Uses and Cultural History in France; Chapter 4 - Who Pays, Who Benefits? Bicycle Taxes as Policy Tool, 1890-2012; Chapter 5 - Monuments of Unsustainability: Planning, Path Dependence, and Cycling in Stockholm
- Part II - IntersectionsChapter 6 - Bicycling and Recycling in Japan: Divergent Trajectories; Part III - Recycling Histories; Chapter 7 - Premodern Sustainability? The Secondhand and Repair Trade in Urban Europe; Chapter 8 - Waste to Assets: How Household Waste Recycling Evolved in West Germany; Chapter 9 - Ecological Modernization of Waste-Dependent Development? Hungary's 2010 Red Mud Disaster; Chapter 10 - The Scramble for Digital Waste in Berlin; Part IV - Reflections; Chapter 11 - Can History Offer Pathways to Sustainability?; Chapter 12 - History, Sustainabiliity, and Choice
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781782389712
- 1782389717
- OCLC:
- 936219355
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