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9.1/2016
GE
society
Global
Environment
Society
Cnr-Istituto di Studi
sulle Società
del Mediterraneo
Università di Firenze
Dipartimento di Scienze
e Tecnologie Ambientali
e Forestali
The Country and the City
Special Issue by The Rachel Carson Center
edited by Agnes Kneitz
GLOBAL
ENVIRON
MENT
A Journal of Transdisciplinary History
No. 9.1 - 2016 - ISSN 1973-3739
No. 9.1 - 2016. Special Issue by The Rachel Carson Center
Introduction
Connecting People and Places in History – Donald Worster
Tokyo Bay as a productive landscape – Jordan Sand
Water management, transport, and the development of market towns in the
Lake Tai region, eleventh–sixteenth centuries – Xie Shi
Growing hungry: The politics of food distribution and the shifting boundaries
between urban and rural in Dar es Salaam – Emily Brownell
Social renewal through the rural: Agricultural cooperatives in South Korea as a
form of critiquing capitalism – Albert L. Park
Interweaving country and city in the urban design of Savannah, Georgia –
David Gobel
Urban air pollution and The Country and the City – William Cavert
Making garbage, making land, making cities: A global history of waste in and
out of place – Sarah Hill
The public lavatory of Tianjin: A change of urban faeces disposal in the
process of modernisation – Cao Mu
From factory to field: Wastewater irrigation in China’s early socialist cities –
Alana Boland
Special features
Are cities sustainable? A discussion of urban metabolism in Europe, past
and future – Christof Mauch, Dieter Schott
Green dreams: Integrating agriculture into China’s metropolises – Agnes Kneitz
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