Mercury stories : understanding sustainability through a volatile element

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Selin, Henrik, 1971- author (author), Eckley, Noelle, author
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press [2020]
Materias:
Mercury > Environmental aspects.
Mercury industry and trade > Environmental aspects.
Sustainable development.
ENVIRONMENT/Sustainability
ENGINEERING/Systems Science & Engineering
ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Science
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009863822406719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Mercury elementary
  • Analyzing human-technical-environmental systems
  • Global human-technical-environmental cycling : chasing quicksilver
  • Human health : mercury's caduceus
  • Energy, industry and pollution : mercury, winged messenger
  • Assets and liabilities : mercury, god of commerce
  • Mining and sustainable livelihoods : mercury, god of finance
  • Sustainability systems : seeing the matrix
  • Sustainability insights : Earth "under pressure"
  • Sustainability champions : "we'll keep on fighting..."

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