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Open Access
Environment, Technology, and Development
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Edited by:
Ismay Milford
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2026
About this book
Histories of environment and histories of technology have moved in exciting, interdisciplinary directions in recent years, with increasing recognition that both environments and technologies are made and remade, gaining meaning only in specific historical settings. With historical scholarship weighted towards examples from the North Atlantic world, this volume provides a collection of grounded case studies from across the modern world that interrogate the relationship between environment and technology in developmental practices and discourses. Development projects have often involved assumptions that humans can create and wield technology to harness, improve or protect the non-human environment. This volume will not simply discredit these assumptions by revealing their nefarious effects on our society and planet, but instead historicise them by locating them within specific power structures and epistemologies. The connections and conversations between dispersed cases raised here point us to more nuanced conclusions about the causes and effects, the objects and subjects of history, in this dynamic interaction between environment, technology, and development.
Author / Editor information
Ismay Milford, Freie Univ. Berlin, Germany; Corinna R. Unger, European Univ. Inst., Florence, Italy; Iris Borowy, Shanghai Univ., China.
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Ismay Milford, Iris Borowy and Corinna R. Unger Open Access Download PDF |
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Part 1: Competing Visions of Progress
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Julia Mariko Jacoby Open Access Download PDF |
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Daniel Pérez-Zapico Open Access Download PDF |
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Elena Kochetkova Open Access Download PDF |
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Odinn Melsted, Cyrus C. M. Mody, George Roberts and Candida F. Sánchez Burmester Open Access Download PDF |
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Part 2: Producing and Challenging Expertise
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Veronika Eszik Open Access Download PDF |
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Bryan U. Kauma Open Access Download PDF |
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Karolin Wetjen Open Access Download PDF |
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Eleanor Choo Open Access Download PDF |
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Part 3: Techniques and Experimentation
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Robert Batchelor Open Access Download PDF |
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From thatched to corrugated roofs: Technological development of houses within the Papiakum landscape
Evelyne N. Tegomoh Open Access Download PDF |
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Giovanni Tonolo Open Access Download PDF |
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Corentin Gruffat Open Access Download PDF |
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Amalia Ribi Forclaz Open Access Download PDF |
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
December 15, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9783111611358
Hardcover published on:
December 15, 2025
Hardcover ISBN:
9783111610047
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
6
Main content:
334
Illustrations:
10
Tables:
1
Audience(s) for this book
Students and scholars of history, science and technology studies, environmental humanities and international development
Creative Commons
BY-NC-ND 4.0
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