Mercury stories : understanding sustainability through a volatile element / / Henrik Selin and Noelle Eckley Selin

• Autore: Selin Henrik <1971->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2020]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 363.17/91
• Soggetto topico: Mercury - Environmental aspects; Mercury industry and trade - Environmental aspects; Sustainable development
• Soggetto non controllato: ENVIRONMENT/Sustainability; ENGINEERING/Systems Science & Engineering; ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Science
• Persona (resp. second.): EckleyNoelle
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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..."
• Sommario/riassunto: "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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Mercury stories
• ISBN: 0-262-35910-3; 0-262-35911-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910901883603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II