Provocations to Environmental History and History of Technology: The Anthropocene

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. The Hybrid Nature of Infrastructures 1
4. I. Overview
5. Provocations to Environmental History and History of Technology: The Anthropocene 15
6. II. Urban Metabolism and the Transformation of Hinterlands
7. Urban Environmental Infrastructure in the Eastern Alpine Region. (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century) 39
8. From “Stues” to “Çates” 59
9. Uranium Stories 85
10. III. The Multiple Scales of Enviro-Technical Systems
11. Water as Infrastructure and the Scalar Mismatch 113
12. The Ideal Public for Infrastructures 129
13. Dirty New Natures 141
14. IV. Hybrid Landscape: Infrastructures of Water Control
15. Coping with Water 163
16. Slow Infrastructures, Flood Protection and Extreme Weather Events 179
17. Decadent Infrastructure? 199
18. V. Conclusion
19. Afterword: Reflections on Environmental Infrastructure 233
20. Contributors 239