Sustainability Challenges of the Mid-nineteenth-century Dutch Energy System
Energy consumption plays a central role in sustainability debates. However, how new are these sustainability challenges? Did sustainability challenges feature in historical energy transitions? This paper analyses societal debates concerning sustainability around the transition from peat to coal in the Netherlands in the mid-nineteenth century. By dividing sustainability challenges in here and now, later and elsewhere, this paper addresses to which extent elements of sustainable development featured in the historical resource transition. Digitized publications in newspapers and journals were an... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2016 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, Vol 13, Iss 3, Pp 29-50 (2016) |
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openjournals.nl
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Schlagwörter: | Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform / HN1-995 / Economic history and conditions / HC10-1085 |
Sprache: | Englisch Niederländisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27017502 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.18352/tseg.866 |