Burning swamps : peat and the forgotten margins of Russia's fossil economy /
"This groundbreaking environmental history approaches Russia's fossil economy from its margins. Tracing the forgotten role of peat in industry and power generation, Katja Bruisch makes a compelling case for foregrounding overlooked places, people, and resources as we tell the histories of...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2025.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Studies in environment and history.
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Promising Environments: Material Premises of Growth and Power
- Part 2. Working Environments: Extraction and the Making of Place
- Part 3. Unsettling Environmets: Threat, Loss and Precarity in Russia's Peatlands