Mercury stories : understanding sustainability through a volatile element /

"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-env...

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Main Authors:	Selin, Henrik, 1971- (Author), Eckley, Noelle (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]
Subjects:	Mercury > Environmental aspects. Mercury industry and trade > Environmental aspects. Sustainable development. ENVIRONMENT/Sustainability ENGINEERING/Systems Science & Engineering ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Science Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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Summary:	"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"--
Physical Description:	1 online resource.
ISBN:	0262359103 9780262359108
DOI:	10.7551/mitpress/11856.001.0001