The concept of metabolism, as applied to the interrelations between human society and the rest of nature, has been one of the most fruitful iterations of socioecological thought over the last few decades. Here we will examine specific orientations of metabolic thought commonly employed in the...

Initiiert wurde die Publikation von der Reichsuniversität Limburg in Maastricht, um Studenten wie Wissenschaftlern eine Vorstellung von der Historizität der Umweltproblematik zu vermitteln. Dem Autor, Wissenschaftshistoriker der Biologie, gelingt das vorzüglich: Angefangen von den Völkern...

On the basis of an examination of the colonial mercury and silver production processes and related labor systems, Mercury, Mining, and Empire explores the effects of mercury pollution in colonial Huancavelica, Peru, and Potosí, in present-day Bolivia. The book presents a multifaceted and...