About this issue
This volume of RCC Perspectives offers an interdisciplinary look at mining and its environmental impacts in Central Europe. The metals and minerals covered in the articles include copper and silver in Tirol, mercury in Slovenia, lead and zinc in Westphalia, lime in the Rhineland, and uranium in East and West Germany. The authors also use a wide variety of methodologies, looking at pollution and health hazards, spatial patterns, arrangements between the mining and agriculture industries, and even reconstructing the vegetation of the past through detailed pollen, microcharcoal, and geochemical analyses of a Tirolean fen.
How to cite: Uekoetter, Frank (ed.), “Mining in Central Europe: Perspectives from Environmental History,” RCC Perspectives 2012, no 10. doi.org/10.5282/rcc/5600.
Content
- Introduction: Mining and the Environment by Frank Uekoetter
- Reconstructing the History of Copper and Silver Mining in Schwaz, Tirol by Elisabeth Breitenlechner, Marina Hilber, Joachim Lutz, Yvonne Kathrein, Alois Unterkircher, and Klaus Oeggl
- Mercurial Activity and Subterranean Landscapes: Towards an Environmental History of Mercury Mining in Early Modern Idrija by Laura Hollsten
- Ore Mining in the Sauerland District in Germany: Development of Industrial Mining in a Rural Setting by Jan Ludwig
- Ubiquitous Mining: The Spatial Patterns of Limestone Quarrying in Late Nineteenth-Century Rhineland by Sebastian Haumann
- Uranium Mining and the Environment in East and West Germany by Manuel Schramm
