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Social Ecology
This book presents the current state of the art in Social Ecology as practiced by the Vienna School of Social Ecology, globally one of the main research groups in this field. As a significant contribution to the growing literature on interdisciplinary sustainability studies, the book introduces the purpose and nature of Social Ecology and then places the “Vienna School” within the broader context of socioecological and other interdisciplinary environmental approaches. The conceptual and methodological foundations of Social Ecology are discussed in detail, allowing the reader to obtain a broad overview of current socioecological thinking. Issues covered include socio-metabolic transitions...
The Guts of the Matter
This engaging interdisciplinary study integrates the deep histories of infectious intestinal disease transmission, the sanitation revolution, and biomedical interventions.
Embodied Histories
"In Embodied Histories, historian Katya Motyl explores the everyday acts of defiance that formed the basis for new, unconventional forms of womanhood in turn-of-the-century Vienna. The figures Motyl brings back to life dressed however they pleased, defied gender conformity, behaved brashly, and expressed themselves freely, overturning assumptions about what it meant to exist as a woman. Motyl delves into the ways in which these women inhabited and reshaped the urban landscape of Vienna, an increasingly modern, cosmopolitan city. Specifically, she focuses on how easily overlooked quotidian practices such as loitering outside cafés, striking up conversations with strangers, and taking dogs for walks helped create novel conceptions of gender. Exploring the emergence of a new womanhood, Embodied Histories presents a new account of how the gender, the body, and the city merge with and transform each other, showing how our modes of being are radically intertwined with the spaces we inhabit"--
Water in Social Imagination
Water in Social Imagination considers how human communities have known, imagined and shaped water – and how water has shaped both material culture and the imagination. Essays from diverse perspectives offer histories of water at different scales – from community water wells and sacred springs to Siberian rivers and the regulated space of the Baltic Sea. From early modernization through Soviet style technological optimism to contemporary environmentalism, water’s ideological uses are multiple. With sustained attention not just to state policy and the technologies of high modernity, but to creative resistance to utilitarian imaginations, these essays insist on fluidities of meaning, ambiguities that derive both from water’s physical mutability and from its dual nature as life necessity and agent of destruction.
Turbulent Streams
In Turbulent Streams: An Environmental History of Japan’s Rivers, 1600–1930, Roderick I. Wilson shows how rivers have played an important role in Japanese history and moves beyond conventional stories of technological progress and environmental decline to provide a dynamic history of environmental relations.
The Contamination of the Earth
The trajectories of pollution in global capitalism, from the toxic waste of early tanneries to the poisonous effects of pesticides in the twentieth century. Through the centuries, the march of economic progress has been accompanied by the spread of industrial pollution. As our capacities for production and our aptitude for consumption have increased, so have their byproducts—chemical contamination from fertilizers and pesticides, diesel emissions, oil spills, a vast “plastic continent” found floating in the ocean. The Contamination of the Earth offers a social and political history of industrial pollution, mapping its trajectories over three centuries, from the toxic wastes of early ta...
The Inevitable
A New York Times Bestseller From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape the next thirty years and transform our lives Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends that are already in motion. In this fascinating, provocative new book, Kevin Kelly provides an optimistic road map for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives—from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to artificial intelligence embedded in everything we manufacture—can be understood as the result of a few long-term, accelerating forces. Kelly both describes these dee...
Genug Holz für Stadt und Fluss? Wiens Holzressourcen in dynamischen Donau-Auen
Was wissen wir heute über die natürliche Produktivität der Auwälder an großen Flüssen vor der Regulierung und über deren ehemalige Funktion als Rohstoffquelle für erneuerbare Energie? Können wir aus einer historischen Rekonstruktion der ehemals verfügbaren Holzressourcen Rückschlüsse für ein nachhaltiges Ressourcenmanagement ziehen? Die Beantwortung dieser Fragen war Ziel des Forschungsprojekts „Genug Holz für Stadt und Fluss? - Wiens Holzressourcen in dynamischen Donau-Auen“. Am Beispiel der Wiener Donau-Flusslandschaft vor der Regulierung 1820 - 1830 untersuchte ein interdisziplinäres Team bestehend aus Flussmorphologen, Gewässer-, Vegetations- und Forstökologen sowie ...
Wasser Stadt Wien
„Wasser Stadt Wien – Eine Umweltgeschichte“ folgt dem gemeinsamen Wandel der Stadt Wien und ihrer Gewässer in den letzten 500 Jahren. Das Buch handelt von der Vergangenheit und weist gerade deshalb auch in eine Zukunft, in der die Stadt ihre aquatische Identität neu entwickeln wird. Auf einer Reise durch Zeiten und Räume, die bis zum Schwarzen Meer und an die Nordsee führt, laden die Beiträge zum Verweilen am Nußdorfer Wehr ein, ebenso wie zur Spurensuche an den verschwundenen Mühlbächen der Liesing. Sie besuchen die Donauschiffer und Donaufischer, die Wäschermädel und Bierbrauer, das Stadtphysikat oder die Kommissionen für die Donauregulierung und die Wasserversorgung. Beri...
