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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480728103321

Titolo

Cycling and recycling : histories of sustainable practices / / edited by Ruth Oldenziel and Helmuth Trischler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-78238-971-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Environment in History: International Perspectives ; ; Volume 7

Disciplina

363.72/8209

Soggetti

Cycling - History

Cycling - Environmental aspects

Recycling (Waste, etc.) - History

Recycling (Waste, etc.) - Environmental aspects

Sustainability

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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