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UNINA9910901883603321 |
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Autore |
Selin Henrik <1971-> |
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Titolo |
Mercury stories : understanding sustainability through a volatile element / / Henrik Selin and Noelle Eckley Selin |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2020] |
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ISBN |
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0-262-35910-3 |
0-262-35911-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (353 pages) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Mercury - Environmental aspects |
Mercury industry and trade - Environmental aspects |
Sustainable development |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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"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-environmental system to learn from the long history of human mercury use and exposure, and to inform strategies--here done in story form--by which people can effect change towards greater sustainability"-- |
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