02730nam 2200529K 450 991090188360332120200826032611.00-262-35910-30-262-35911-1(CKB)4100000011490505(MiAaPQ)EBC6383431(OCoLC)1187208843(OCoLC-P)1187208843(MaCbMITP)11856(PPN)261417355(EXLCZ)99410000001149050520200821d2020 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMercury stories understanding sustainability through a volatile element /Henrik Selin and Noelle Eckley SelinCambridge, Massachusetts :The MIT Press,[2020]1 online resource (353 pages) illustrations0-262-53920-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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...""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"--Provided by publisher.MercuryEnvironmental aspectsMercury industry and tradeEnvironmental aspectsSustainable developmentENVIRONMENT/SustainabilityENGINEERING/Systems Science & EngineeringENVIRONMENT/Environmental ScienceMercuryEnvironmental aspects.Mercury industry and tradeEnvironmental aspects.Sustainable development.363.17/91Selin Henrik1971-1623082Eckley NoelleOCoLC-POCoLC-PBOOK9910901883603321Mercury stories4273194UNINA