Cycling and Recycling: Histories of Sustainable Practices (Environment in History: International Perspectives Book 7)

Technology Has Long Been An Essential Consideration In Public Discussions Of The Environment, With The Focus Overwhelmingly On Creating New Tools And Techniques. In More Recent Years, However, Activists, Researchers, And Policymakers Have Increasingly Turned To Mobilizing Older Technologies In Their Pursuit Of Sustainability. In Fascinating Case Studies Ranging From The Early Modern Secondhand Trade To Utopian Visions Of Human-powered Vehicles, The Contributions Gathered Here Explore The Historical Fortunes Of Two Such Technologies-bicycling And Waste Recycling-tracing Their Development Over Time And Providing Valuable Context For The Policy Successes And Failures Of Today.-- How Old Technologies Became Sustainable : An Introduction / Ruth Oldenziel And Helmuth Trischler -- Use And Cycling In West Africa / Hans Peter Hahn -- The Politics Of Bicycle Innovation : Comparing The American And Dutch Human-powered Vehicle Movements, 1970s-present / Manuel Stoffers -- Scarcity, Poverty, Exclusion : Negative Associations Of The Bicycle's Uses And Cultural History In France / Catherine Bertho Lavenir -- Who Pays, Who Benefits? Bicycle Taxes As Policy Tool, 1890-2012 / Adri Albert De La Bruhèze And Ruth Oldenziel -- Monuments Of Unsustainability : Planning, Path Dependence, And Cycling In Stockholm / Martin Emanuel -- Bicycling And Recycling In Japan : Divergent Trajectories / M. William Steele -- Premodern Sustainability? The Secondhand And Repair Trade In Urban Europe / Georg Stöger -- Waste To Assets : How Household Waste Recycling Evolved In West Germany / Roman Köster -- Ecological Modernization Of Waste-dependent Development? Hungary's 2010 Red Mud Disaster / Zsuzsa Gille -- The Scramble For Digital Waste In Berlin / Djahane Salehabadi -- Can History Offer Pathways To Sustainability? / Donald Worster -- History, Sustainability, And Choice / Robert Friedel. Edited By Ruth Oldenziel And Helmuth Trischler. This Volume Looks At The Bicycle In Tandem With The History Of Recycling, And How Both Have Shaped And Are Shaping Earth's Environment. Includes Bibliographical References. Contents......Page 5 List of Figures......Page 7 How Old Technologies Became Sustainable: An Introduction......Page 9 Part I — Cycling Histories......Page 21 Chapter 1 — Use and Cycling in West Africa......Page 23 Chapter 2 — The Politics of Bicycle Innovation: Comparing the American and Dutch Human-Powered Vehicle Movements, 1970s–Present......Page 41 Chapter 3 — Scarcity, Poverty, Exclusion: Negative Associations of the Bicycle's Uses and Cultural History in France......Page 66 Chapter 4 — Who Pays, Who Benefits? Bicycle Taxes as Policy Tool, 1890–2012......Page 81 Chapter 5 — Monuments of Unsustainability: Planning, Path Dependence, and Cycling in Stockholm......Page 109 Part II — Intersections......Page 131 Chapter 6 — Bicycling and Recycling in Japan: Divergent Trajectories......Page 133 Part III — Recycling Histories......Page 153 Chapter 7 — Premodern Sustainability? The Secondhand and Repair Trade in Urban Europe......Page 155 Chapter 8 — Waste to Assets: How Household Waste Recycling Evolved in West Germany......Page 176 Chapter 9 — Ecological Modernization of Waste-Dependent Development? Hungary's 2010 Red Mud Disaster......Page 191 Chapter 10 — The Scramble for Digital Waste in Berlin......Page 210 Part IV — Reflections......Page 221 Chapter 11 — Can History Offer Pathways to Sustainability?......Page 223 Chapter 12 — History, Sustainabiliity, and Choice......Page 227 Selected Bibliography......Page 234 Index......Page 248 "Technology has long been an essential consideration in public discussions of the environment, with the focus overwhelmingly on creating new tools and techniques. In more recent years, however, activists, researchers, and policymakers have increasingly turned to mobilizing older technologies in their pursuit of sustainability. In fascinating case studies ranging from the Early Modern secondhand trade to utopian visions of human-powered vehicles, the contributions gathered here explore the historical fortunes of two such technologies -bicycling and waste recycling- tracing their development over time and providing valuable context for the policy successes and failures of today."--Publisher's website 4e de couv.: Technology has long been an essential consideration in public discussions of the environment, with the focus overwhelmingly on creating new tools and techniques. In more recent years, however, activists, researchers, and policymakers have increasingly turned to mobilizing older technologies in their pursuit of sustainability. In fascinating case studies ranging from the Early Modern secondhand trade to utopian visions of human-powered vehicles, the contributions gathered here explore the historical fortunes of two such technologies-bicycling and waste recycling-tracing their development over time and providing valuable context for the policy successes and failures of today